Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the present time " in BNC.
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| 31 | I take in my opinion the size , scale of settlement that is being pursued by erm North Yorkshire is of sufficient size , erm my experience erm are twelve fifty to fifteen hundred new settlement is sort of of a size that can sustain a reasonable balance of community facilities , I think in looking at the new village and in the context of P P G thirteen its highway implications , we see from table one of er Mr Curtis 's supplementary statement that public transport , I E bus and train , in terms of journeys to work to the Greater York area amounts to about eight percent of all journeys made , now I think if we were to follow Mr Curtis 's view through and put all development on the periphery of York , if we put two hundred to the North , two hundred to the East , two hundred to the South and so on and so forth , the contribution that those , that new housing can make to improving the public transport system , will be very small , if you concentrate your developments in a new settlement , or or maybe two new settlements which is another point , erm you have a better opportunity to provide a public transport system which would not only serve that new village , but also settlements in the surroundings , and I think you will find that the percentage of people in the new village who are reliant on public transport as a means of getting to work is greater that what you find in the Greater York area at the present time . |
| 32 | The point made by Mr Bishop about employment , shopping and other land I also wish to respond to , I think one of the other participants did mention the issue of existing provision , it 's been quite clear from the work of the Greater York authorities that certainly shopping terms there is an oversupply of shopping companies in and around the edge of the urban area at the present time , we have a number of major outstanding consents which have not yet been taken up . |
| 33 | I should not advise raising this topic at the present time . |
| 34 | Although Mr Wallace agreed that a referendum call was potentially unifying , he said of the convention : ‘ I ca n't see it having any active role at the present time . ’ |
| 35 | If this is not possible ( and it usually is n't ) , the golden advice at the present time must be to sell first rather than risk lumbering yourself with the crippling expense of having to borrow for several months or possibly longer . |
| 36 | On the other hand , the first type of relation is one which has less significance for the present time , when there are no new political theories on the grand scale . |
| 37 | It did have ethical , social and political implications even for life in the present time , but it could not be reduced to these : rather it set the present in the light of God 's future . |
| 38 | Wherever blame might lie as regards the situation with the South Wales constabulary at the present time , surely it would be madness to merge Gwent police force with the South Wales police force at this unfortunate time because Gwent has a very , very good record and we want it to stay like that . |
| 39 | There is no need for any concern at the present time but the problems have got to be addressed because they wo n't go away . |
| 40 | Referring to the ILP and the Socialist League , he wrote in November : Fortunately for the British working class movement , such organisations , with no mass connections or mass influence , or record of mass struggles in any part of the country , are of little significance at the present time . |
| 41 | Many of these former drainage channels are in process of disintegration at the present time ( Mabbutt , 1977 ) . |
| 42 | Yet this you would expect ; it is one of the hallmarks of the dominant culture , after all , that it is about thirty to fifty years behind what is actually occurring in the world in the present time . |
| 43 | As pointed out by the collector and historian van Mander writing in 1604 , ‘ Whoever so desires nowadays has only to go to Prague to the greatest art patron in the world at the present time ; there he may see at the Imperial residence a remarkable number of outstanding and precious , curious , unusual , and priceless works . ’ |
| 44 | The average consumption of fat in the Western world at the present time is about 130 grams ( over 4½ ounces ) a day per person . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | The Russians have declined the offer to take on such a major project at the present time . |
| 47 | Disenchantment with orthodox approaches is , in fact , bringing a number of new recruits to homoeopathy at the present time . |
| 48 | Last week , the Physiological Society decided that it would not pursue the matter at the present time , and would accept the foundation 's argument . |
| 49 | So certain privileged persons would place society under tribute , and since no doubt prices tended to be adjusted in compensation , the effect was comparable with that of shop-lifting at the present time . |
| 50 | It is in yachtsmen 's best interests that some flexibility is permitted now , otherwise all the wide and diverse skills that prevail on the Hamble at the present time will gradually disappear . |
| 51 | In his address to the congress , the chair of the Russian Supreme Soviet , Ruslan Khasbulatov , expressed support for the continued existence of collective and state-owned farms as the most effective way to provide food at the present time . |
| 52 | I think science has always been characterised by periods when particular subjects have had an enormous outburst of activity , and we 're seeing that with erm immunology at the present time . |
| 53 | A reform of nurse education as outlined in Project 2000 would overcome many of the frustrations felt within the profession at the present time ( 1 ) . |
| 54 | The ‘ fundamental difficulty at the present time ’ , he continued , ‘ seems to be the impossibility of forecasting with confidence the future lines of social organization . ’ |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | Well , not to kill the world , but they they there are enough bombs in existence at the present time to obliterate the world about three or four times over so we 're told , so we read no snow out here at all Danny is there ? |
| 57 | Finally , important solution forms are to be found in the Red Sea , a region of such aridity that the possibility of fresh water playing a part at the present time can be ignored . |
| 58 | The Primitive Methodist chapel on Westgate was built in 1871 to replace a smaller chapel on Quaker Lane , and a campaign is in progress at the present time to raise funds for its refurbishment . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | to delay the implementation of the new structure until the present time as requested by NALGO to allow greater consultation ; |