Example sentences of "at the [adj] time the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The EC Commission said much the same in its submission to the Energy Committee : ‘ At the present time the FBR is the only reactor type which could , if introduced early enough , extend the lifetime of our uranium resources to the end of the next century — and beyond . ’ |
| 2 | At the present time the strength of the Catholic and nationalist forces in the North lies in their political discipline and restraint . |
| 3 | Personalities apart , it is convenient that at the present time the following Departments should also be represented in the Cabinet — Home Office , Ministry of Labour and Board of Trade . |
| 4 | At the present time the Tribunal may only concern itself with the modification and discharge of restrictive covenants , therefore only the restrictive obligations contained in the agreement . |
| 5 | At the present time the runway and airport buildings are being improved . |
| 6 | At the present time the best days to walk around Funchal are Saturday and Sunday when it is much quieter and you will have the chance to stop and view the buildings and doorways , many of which have interesting detail . |
| 7 | At the present time the PSD team has already built a new mess room for ELR volunteer workers , erected carriage maintenance platforms within Buckley Wells shed and laid concrete paths all round the outside of the shed , together with concrete bases for its new workshop annexe . |
| 8 | But at the present time the pressures seem to be particularly intense . |
| 9 | At the present time the Youth Service in Cumbria seems to have all but disappeared . |
| 10 | At the present time the whole right half of the garden is taken up with ‘ things fishy ’ . |
| 11 | In spite of increasing knowledge about the gene , at the present time the only way to distinguish between Duchenne muscular dystrophy and the more benign allelic Becker muscular dystrophy is by muscle biopsy and dystrophin analysis . |
| 12 | At the present time the English tend to play down the significance of affinal relationships but , even so , the statement " she has made a good marriage " is more likely to refer to the social and financial standing of the husband 's immediate kin than to the personal qualities of the husband himself . |
| 13 | At the present time the Council Tax Demands and payment voucher books are being printed , they will start to be issued by the Post Office from 20 April onwards over a period of about one week . |
| 14 | At the present time the procedure involves three forms — SCLA 2 ( Application for legal aid with declaration of means ) ; SCLA 3 ( Intimation by Clerk of Court to Local Secretary that Court has granted legal aid ) ; and SCLA 5 ( Intimation by Local Secretary to nominated solicitor , the accused , the Clerk of Court and Fiscal ) . |
| 15 | At the present time the greatest demand is in Business Studies and Economics , in Architecture and in Psychology . |
| 16 | At the present time the diagnosis of chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction is based upon invasive investigations , including the demonstration of characteristic patterns of small intestinal motor activity by intraluminal manometry , and the histological examination of full thickness intestinal biopsies . |
| 17 | And veteran peace campaigner , retired Methodist minister Rev Eric Gallagher said : ‘ At the present time the meeting could not be any more important . |
| 18 | ‘ You mean if he does n't show up at the right time the opportunity wo n't occur again ? ’ |
| 19 | While at the current time the main focus of this work has been to better assess need through localities , work is being undertaken to identify ways in which budgets could be allocated to localities and purchasing carried out at the local level . |
| 20 | These differing responses , the fundamental cause of most of the wars of history , were not necessarily taken with a knowledge of the effect that they would ultimately have , for at the relevant time the choice would not have been as clear to those making them , as it would be to minds educated to standards prevailing centuries later . |
| 21 | Langford and Williams ' work with renowned listed pubs since 1987 puts the company in a favourable light with conservation societies such as The Victorian Society , SPAB , and the Georgian Group ; we have even been known to win a few CAMRA awards yet at the same time the firm has also brazenly converted redundant pubs to café-bar concepts . |
| 22 | To start the saw , the starting lock at the top of the handle has to be pressed forwards and at the same time the trigger switch is squeezed . |
| 23 | At the same time the final text propagates caps like overnight mushrooms . |
| 24 | At the same time the success of the West German foreign minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , in getting an agreement to bring out the thousands of East Germans from the West German embassies in Prague and Warsaw in the 24 hours before the polls closed boosted the results of his small Free Democrat party . |
| 25 | At the same time the cost of the proposed high-speed rail link from London to the tunnel has risen nearly three-fold to £3.5bn because of environmental safeguards demanded by the Government . |
| 26 | At the same time the Abbey raised its rate for borrowers of more than £60,000 from 12.95 to 13.9 per cent . |
| 27 | At the same time the body develops ways around the scarring to maintain blood supply ‘ growing ’ little extra blood vessels into the gut and stomach wall . |
| 28 | At the same time the effect of television viewing on public awareness of ‘ other ’ Conservatives rose from 11 per cent to 25 per cent while its effect on public awareness of ‘ other ’ Labour politicians rose from 6 per cent to 18 per cent ( Table 7.10 ) . |
| 29 | At the same time the audience pattern for highbrow television news seems more in keeping with the Public Service Ideal : reaching out to the interested public irrespective of social background . |
| 30 | At the same time the party continued to contract and disintegrate , even in its old mining and inner-city strongholds . |