Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [prep] the present time " in BNC.
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| 1 | One discouraging aspect of the relations between nations at the present time is that there is little indication of a decline in nationalist sentiment or in the fervour with which particular national interests are pursued . |
| 2 | Rent arrears from the beginning of December to the present time at £800 a month would be paid , said Mr Finnegan . |
| 3 | There are a number of imponderables at the present time e.g. the rates to be charged by CCC when it becomes an agency in 1992 , the high annual cost of a direct link , the number of and cost of training staff to prepare data for processing at a bank or internally with a software package available on a PC system . |
| 4 | Whether divorce operates in the same way as widowhood in this regard is really a matter of speculation at the present time . |
| 5 | By way of background to what follows , I must first state my position on two related issues , since they are issues that may arise over and over again in the discussion of education at the present time . |
| 6 | The gas fields in the northern part of the N.W. German Basin lie in a region where the coal bearing Carboniferous has reached its deepest level of subsidence at the present time ( Barnard and Cooper 1983 ) . |
| 7 | Many of these former drainage channels are in process of disintegration at the present time ( Mabbutt , 1977 ) . |
| 8 | So certain privileged persons would place society under tribute , and since no doubt prices tended to be adjusted in compensation , the effect was comparable with that of shop-lifting at the present time . |
| 9 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 10 | She has had treatment in hospital for depression and is under sedation at the present time . |
| 11 | Everyone is aware that the teaching profession is under stress at the present time . |
| 12 | for it is not just school education that is under fire at the present time . |
| 13 | Well , not to kill the world , but they they there are enough bombs in existence at the present time to obliterate the world about three or four times over so we 're told , so we read no snow out here at all Danny is there ? |
| 14 | The Primitive Methodist chapel on Westgate was built in 1871 to replace a smaller chapel on Quaker Lane , and a campaign is in progress at the present time to raise funds for its refurbishment . |
| 15 | Business strength is a measure of the proficiency with which the firm deals with all aspects of the specific product/market complex in question at the present time . |
| 16 | This is one respect in which we can see regional differences opening up in the kind of support which relatives can give to each other , although we know very little about how these matters are handled in families at the present time . |
| 17 | These floods probably constitute the main agent of erosion in deserts at the present time . |
| 18 | Two themes expected to run through the study are the impact of computer-aided design , draughting , and manufacture on the design process , and the role and status of the professional engineer in Britain at the present time . |
| 19 | So in fact five percent of our electricity comes from French nuclear power stations , in fact at the present time . |
| 20 | The great growth in Christianity at the present time is in the Third World and those parts of Eastern Europe that are still under atheistic leadership . |
| 21 | It did have ethical , social and political implications even for life in the present time , but it could not be reduced to these : rather it set the present in the light of God 's future . |
| 22 | Disenchantment with orthodox approaches is , in fact , bringing a number of new recruits to homoeopathy at the present time . |
| 23 | In Rangoon Nu announced : ‘ AFPFL is not calling for a general strike among workers at the present time . |
| 24 | He said no one working for the Post Office at Middleton at the present time was in any way part of the investigation . |