Example sentences of "be at present " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's where most of the action seems to be at present . |
| 2 | Others , such as Asians , may be at present living within extended families . |
| 3 | Following the visit of our hon. Friend the Member for Enfield , North ( Mr. Eggar ) to Basildon last Friday , will my right hon. and learned Friend endorse our hon. Friend 's statement that the independence that we are offering colleges of further education and sixth-form colleges such as Basildon 's will enable them to be more effective , efficient and flexible than they can be at present ? |
| 4 | As a result , he continued , ‘ It is quite impossible for me in a letter to give you a detailed account of my proceedings my time being at present fully occupied in unpacking arrangements and other matters . ’ |
| 5 | Some good foresters were at present obtaining 60% of their income from the sale of timber so there was room for better management . |
| 6 | These ‘ Masters ’ were at present in a spacecraft orbiting earth and their power was being magnified three thousand times by an international network of groups using Christian prayer and Buddhist mantras . |
| 7 | She , too , had suffered from Clarissa 's neighbourly concern about the behaviour of her child and was waiting with calm anticipation for the time when Clarissa 's children , who were at present eleven and twelve , should enter puberty . |
| 8 | Praising the work of non-governmental organizations and implicitly criticizing the UN World Food Programme ( WFP ) and other UN agencies , he pointed out that together private and UN agencies were at present providing only a quarter of the minimum monthly food needs . |
| 9 | Rowntree and Glaxo are at present under his scrutiny . |
| 10 | THOSE who care about such things are at present locked in combat over the issue of whether the greatest number of British skiers go to Austria ( which traditionally enjoys the distinction ) or to France ( which is the flavour of the decade ) . |
| 11 | The birth parents , adoptive parents and the child itself are at present all encouraged by the law , the professionals and common prejudice to deny the reality of their situation . |
| 12 | Again , those elements of the house-building industry , both firms and individuals , which are at present to an alarming extent drifting into jobbing and repair work on account of the difficulty of obtaining licences , will find their way back into the housing field , and the existing danger of skilled house-building teams being broken up and not replaced will be avoided . |
| 13 | He is not allowed to dissect the fossils , though , since they are at present irreplaceable . |
| 14 | Both states are plagued by secessionist militants , and both are at present ruled — with the army 's help — directly from Delhi . |
| 15 | Suffice it to say that there are very few people who are at present at their full potential for good health and good looks . |
| 16 | SIR — There are at present about half a million United Kingdom citizens living in other parts of the European Community , and if Britain is to compete successfully in the Single Market , even more Britons will find themselves spending longer periods elsewhere in the EC . |
| 17 | England are at present near the top of the rugby world , but if they feel they can not keep finding a world-beating XV from 24 of 26 clubs in their top two leagues , my heart bleeds for them . |
| 18 | It is essential that its members , who are at present without political affiliations , should stay in close touch with the people who elected them . |
| 19 | As the Japanese are at present constituted , accidents to life and limb would most certainly occur if trains made but a brief halt to entrain passengers . |
| 20 | Of course there is no possible denying our need for people so educated that they may fill the jobs that are at present unfilled , or offered to people from other countries , because of our own shortage of skilled and competent technologists . |
| 21 | Although on a world scale the geothermal energy contribution is low , more than 50 countries are at present engaged in research into methods of exploiting it . |
| 22 | They are prepared to pay the same amount of rent as you are at present receiving from it . ’ |
| 23 | I ca n't tell him now — not the way things are at present . ’ |
| 24 | We , by contrast , are at present at the most painful phase of a radical readjustment . |
| 25 | The level of detail in this specification is currently not clear , and there are at present very few examples of contracts ( Drummond , Marchment & Crump , 1989 ; Central Birmingham Health Authority , 1989 , Department of Health , 1990 ) . |
| 26 | There are at present over 100 pupils from every country in Europe except England , a strange exception considering how grossly ignorant our farriers are ’ . |
| 27 | There are at present two types of TV-cassette systems , for playback alone , and systems for both recording and playback . |
| 28 | Unfortunately gigaskirts , teraskirts , petaskirts and exaskirts are at present more fashionable than attoskirts . |
| 29 | Council officers are especially worried about the reviewers ' recommendation that the statutory criteria for selecting SSSIs — which are at present purely scientific — should take into account administration and finance . |
| 30 | So far buildings have been acquired as the result of the Bradford efforts which are at present undergoing alterations and improvements which will eventually accommodate about 20 handicapped people plus staff . |