Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] at [art] present time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little in the Outer Hebrides at the present time which can be described as natural woodland . |
| 2 | One of the chief causes at the present time was the increase in interest rates , especially for the self-employed . |
| 3 | The future It was peculiarly difficult to predict future trends at the present time when it was anticipated that there would be a major re-distribution of work in the trial courts in consequence of legislation to give effect to the recommendations of the Civil Justice Review . |
| 4 | I soon realized that if one reversed the direction of time in Penrose 's theorem , so that the collapse became an expansion , the conditions of his theorem would still hold , provided the universe were roughly like a Friedmann model on large scales at the present time . |
| 5 | It 's not all absolutely good news at the present time , because the final boundaries of the area are not yet determined and we are currently in negotiation with the U K government about the precise boundaries of the five B area . |
| 6 | The Russians have declined the offer to take on such a major project at the present time . |
| 7 | In my opinion it serves no useful purpose at the present time to seek to construe the relevant provisions of the Theft Act by reference to the report which preceded it , namely the Eighth Report of the Criminal Law Revision Committee on Theft and Related Offences ( 1966 ) ( Cmnd. 2977 ) . |
| 8 | This prevents , however , dynamic studies of peristalsis and motility patterns , an area of great interest at the present time . |
| 9 | This objection may be made about most human beings as well as about most fictional characters at the present time , when there is no accepted common standard . |
| 10 | The ‘ fundamental difficulty at the present time ’ , he continued , ‘ seems to be the impossibility of forecasting with confidence the future lines of social organization . ’ |
| 11 | Erm , there are no agreed sites at the present time . |
| 12 | That 's general policy at the present time it 's a fairly woolly objective that we did n't try at the review , but the traffic management facilities and provisions are observed |
| 13 | If this is not possible ( and it usually is n't ) , the golden advice at the present time must be to sell first rather than risk lumbering yourself with the crippling expense of having to borrow for several months or possibly longer . |
| 14 | The rise of the lay colleges at the present time is largely the fault of the medical profession itself , a result of its consistent disregard for this approach to treatment so that the demand for it far outweighs the practitioners available to supply that demand . |
| 15 | The average consumption of fat in the Western world at the present time is about 130 grams ( over 4½ ounces ) a day per person . |
| 16 | The point made by Mr Bishop about employment , shopping and other land I also wish to respond to , I think one of the other participants did mention the issue of existing provision , it 's been quite clear from the work of the Greater York authorities that certainly shopping terms there is an oversupply of shopping companies in and around the edge of the urban area at the present time , we have a number of major outstanding consents which have not yet been taken up . |
| 17 | Although Mr Wallace agreed that a referendum call was potentially unifying , he said of the convention : ‘ I ca n't see it having any active role at the present time . ’ |