Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] at [art] 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 | The strict settlement method is rarely used at the present day . |
| 3 | Now if anyone like to look at the present day and er pension book , they 'll discover that since then , for the last three years , they 've done the people of this country out of one week 's pension every year . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Teachers readily admit at the present time that in most cases they have had little or no training in assessment procedures , and therefore feel they lack both the skills and the confidence to take on a more responsible role in certification . |
| 7 | There is no safe atmospheric level of asbestos fibres universally accepted at the present time ’ . |
| 8 | This brings us again to the vital question of where sediments actually accumulate at the present day . |
| 9 | There is a growing belief that payment by results schemes or reward linked to achievement of goals is an unleashing factor and it certainly appears at the present time to be working that way . |
| 10 | 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 . |