Example sentences of "at the [adj] time [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the present time church leaders tend to be too limited in their experience and outlook , having focused almost exclusively on the fortunes of their own denomination , or on the spiritual conditions prevailing within their own country . |
| 2 | In relation to Europe and 1992 , it is expected that there will be substantial growth in many markets ( particularly Spain ) , although at the present time EC rules and regulations on pensions are still being liberalised . |
| 3 | At the present time studies directed towards the educational product are being carried out , and long-term evaluation of both the introductory and advanced courses in information retrieval is in progress . |
| 4 | At the present time teachers may be working with limited resources whilst seeking to meet the varying demands of children with special educational needs . |
| 5 | At the present time interpretation , often of a narrow and unrewarding kind , flourishes , usually though falsely claimed on publishers ' blurbs to be saying something completely new and important . |
| 6 | Information handling is a highly demanding exercise as far as computers are concerned — much more demanding than carrying out complex calculations — and at the present time micros do not provide the kind of flexibility and robustness which is required . |
| 7 | At the present time jobs are not easy to come by , and if you 're on permanent , or rather short-term contracts renewed all the time this makes a difference to where you can get to compared with a man with the equivalent training . |
| 8 | It is thus clear on the basis of all these authorities that at the present time universities can create a jurisdiction for the visitor which excludes the concurrent and appellate jurisdiction of the courts . |
| 9 | At the present time Aran Onshore Ltd. and its partners are exploring an area in the Northwest Basin straddling the border with the Republic of Ireland , while Anvil Petroleum and Energy Sources ( N.l. ) hold licences in the Rathlin Basin in north Antrim and north Londonderry . |
| 10 | Once again I am asking you to ‘ plug ’ it in your classes and if there is still some reluctance on the part of class members , perhaps the proceeds of social fund raising could be used to buy membership for some members of the class ; at the present time membership is just as important as society funds . |
| 11 | At the present time patients who lose their job in middle age experience great difficulty in finding another . |
| 12 | At the present time SDRs constitute only 2 per cent of countries ' official reserves — some measure perhaps of the limited contribution of SDRs . |
| 13 | But to our disgust , and as Nigel mentioned , also that we have seen a demise of factory inspectors , and this is borne out by the fact that figures at the present time show that an average workplace can be expected to be visited once in eleven years . |
| 14 | Listen what Paul says when he writes to the Romans in chapter five he says , for why we were still helpless , at the right time Christ died for the ungodly . |
| 15 | At the appointed time Venturous ' was in position near Nieuport just outside the three mile territorial limit and in due course picked up a small craft leaving the Belgian port . |
| 16 | At the relevant time rule 7.3(1) of Lautro 's Rules gave a member on whom an intervention notice was served the right to apply ( immediately ) for the board to rescind the notice , and rule 7.3(11) gave a right to the member to appeal against the notice and against any decision not to rescind it . |
| 17 | Although I consider that at the relevant time Lautro 's Rules , and thus its procedure , were defective in the respects I have outlined , for the reasons I have given I conclude that Lautro were not required by law to afford to Winchester the opportunity to make representations as to why an intervention notice should not be served before deciding whether or not to serve such a notice . |
| 18 | In December 1915 , at the very time Falkenhayn was submitting his Memorandum , he was writing to his father about the possibility of a separate peace with England or Russia , ‘ if we do not want our fatherland to keep on fighting until complete exhaustion ’ . |
| 19 | The " Baltic path " to emancipation — the landless variant — was discredited at the very time disagreements over the way forward were at their height . |
| 20 | She looked down at the diminutive Time Lord , her eyes full of quiet sympathy . |