Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] at the present time " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ The firm will continue to operate in its traditional successful style and our employees can consider their jobs to be as secure as any can be in the building industry at the present time . |
| 2 | ‘ The economy probably is better than it was a year ago , the computer retail business is strong and the general consumer electronics business at the present time seems to be running ahead of last year , ’ Roach said . |
| 3 | Less than 5 per cent of sticky eyes in newborn babies are caused by the gonococcus in the United Kingdom at the present time , although it is more common in other parts of the world . |
| 4 | The vital task facing trade unions at the present time is to sell trade unionism — to convince trade union members that they belong to a beneficial , positive and essential organisation . |
| 5 | Over a hundred MPs in the House of Commons hold government posts at the present time and even the humblest of them — the parliamentary private secretaries — are almost always forced to resign if they vote against the government or even abstain . |
| 6 | The office has no grassroots support — indeed few women know of its existence , The project merely highlights the vacuous nature of women 's development programmes as conceived in El Salvador at the present time . |
| 7 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 8 | ‘ Although it may be too early for Stuart Pearce at the present time , he will surely be in contention at some stage in the future . ’ |
| 9 | Clearly these are all matters which would repay up-to-date research , since it seems that we may be witnessing important social changes in patterns of family support at the present time . |
| 10 | There is little disagreement with the view that the principal public interest issue at the present time is the quality of audit-ing . |
| 11 | Wherever blame might lie as regards the situation with the South Wales constabulary at the present time , surely it would be madness to merge Gwent police force with the South Wales police force at this unfortunate time because Gwent has a very , very good record and we want it to stay like that . |
| 12 | It really does appear to illustrate the negligent and Philistine attitude of the majority of CDC councillors at the present time . |
| 13 | Probably the most common type of conversion project at the present time is the adaptation of a mill or warehouse into a block of dwellings . |
| 14 | For Millie , the lesson needed no thinking , for the sister had practically told them what to say , but she wove a story round it as if the incident were happening in Benton Fields at the present time . |