Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] at the present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The European Community ( EC ) , for example , actually came into existence largely through an acute perception of French national interests by Jean Monnet , who was mainly responsible for creating the European Coal and Steel Community — the precursor of the Common Market — as a means of protecting French industry and especially French steel makers from their more efficient German competitors ; and it is widely recognized at the present time that national interests continue to play a major part in the debates and decisions of the Community . |
| 2 | Agree that Practice Rule 15 be not amended at the present time . |
| 3 | Agree that charges for the Remuneration Certificate service be not introduced at the present time . |
| 4 | It 's not united at the present day , there are far too many lefts and rights and centres . |
| 5 | The strict settlement method is rarely used at the present day . |
| 6 | But we know that there must have been some irregularities , because otherwise the matter in the universe would still be perfectly uniformly distributed at the present epoch , instead of being clumped together in stars and galaxies . |
| 7 | Just why there are more calories in the human excreta following the intake of a high-fibre diet is less than fully understood at the present stage of scientific research . |
| 8 | There is no safe atmospheric level of asbestos fibres universally accepted at the present time ’ . |
| 9 | It is not possible here to say more about the different types of trust which are commonly created at the present time , nor of the powers and duties of the trustees , nor of the methods of administration . |