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

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1 He added : ‘ The firm will continue to operate in its traditional successful style and our employees can consider their jobs to be as secure as any can be in the building industry at the present time .
2 ‘ The economy probably is better than it was a year ago , the computer retail business is strong and the general consumer electronics business at the present time seems to be running ahead of last year , ’ Roach said .
3 The vital task facing trade unions at the present time is to sell trade unionism — to convince trade union members that they belong to a beneficial , positive and essential organisation .
4 Over a hundred MPs in the House of Commons hold government posts at the present time and even the humblest of them — the parliamentary private secretaries — are almost always forced to resign if they vote against the government or even abstain .
5 Well , I mean , we do n't , we do n't intend to equity account B Sky B for the present time anyway .
6 Albanian historians believe that the modern Albanians developed from the ancient Illyrians and that there is a continuity of Illyrian settlement in their country from the Bronze Age to the present time .
7 Clearly these are all matters which would repay up-to-date research , since it seems that we may be witnessing important social changes in patterns of family support at the present time .
8 There is little disagreement with the view that the principal public interest issue at the present time is the quality of audit-ing .
9 Probably the most common type of conversion project at the present time is the adaptation of a mill or warehouse into a block of dwellings .
10 A great range of filtration systems have been developed from the pioneering efforts of the late Captain L.C. Betts who essentially miniaturized sewage disposal systems which resulted in the basic undergravel filtration system of the present time , which illustrates the principles involved .
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