Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [prep] the present time " in BNC.

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1 One of the chief causes at the present time was the increase in interest rates , especially for the self-employed .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 A more realistic approach might be to attempt to reduce the pace of change to meet the economic and environmental needs of the present time .
5 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 .
6 These are the essential demands of the present time .
7 Erm , there are no agreed sites at the present time .
8 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 .
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