Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] at the present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Katina MacDonald , widow of one of their descendants lives there at the present time . |
| 2 | My interpretation of what is going on at the present day is being saved for the next chapter , but some of the most startling results come from the latest ( and most accurately dated ) deposits . |
| 3 | I do not deny uniformitarianism in its true sense , that is to say , of interpreting the past by means of the processes that we see going on at the present day , so long as we remember that the periodic catastrophe ( including sudden events like the rush of a turbidity current ) is one of those processes . |
| 4 | The only place where this type of sedimentation seems to be going on at the present day is in the ocean depths , where the deposits consist mainly of the remains of minute pelagic organisms , literally raining down from a watery heaven , plus volcanic dust raining down more intermittently from the aerial heaven above . |
| 5 | There followed the annus mirabilis of 1889 during which , on Wilson 's later estimate , 130,000 members were enrolled in branches at 45 ports , a number representing , net of officers , engineers , cooks and stewards , " almost the whole of the seamen in the British mercantile marine " , though , he added with unusual candour , " it is true that they are not all paying up at the present time " , partly , it seems , because of the union 's policy of issuing " privilege tickets " involving no entry money or contributions until members could afford to pay . |
| 6 | They 're er they live in at the present time and er his name 's Paul and he 's the main Skoda dealer in Nottingham . |
| 7 | The pension has been transferred to the Legal and General and has been left there at the present time to grow and be managed . |
| 8 | In other words , without it one can not explain why at the present time there is a maldistribution of world wealth and income such that the countries of the Northern hemisphere contain only 25 per cent of the world 's population but obtain 80 per cent of the world 's income , while the countries of the South contain 75 per cent of the world 's population but obtain only 20 per cent of the world 's income . |
| 9 | The drama course for professional performers which does not at the present time qualify for a mandatory award , is fully accredited by the National Council of Drama Training as is the Acting Option of the Graduate Diploma course . |
| 10 | But it is all too evident that there does not exist anywhere at the present time an active political movement which would be capable of initiating such a development , and if such a movement came into existence it would encounter immense difficulties . |
| 11 | Just what I need right at the present moment ! ’ |