Example sentences of "[noun prp] [prep] [art] present time " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There is little in the Outer Hebrides at the present time which can be described as natural woodland . |
| 2 | As the Chancellor 's friends should know , the Government have been warned every year — from the days of Mr. Vredeling until the present time — that additionality is essential , and that this country is breaking the rules . |
| 3 | Rent arrears from the beginning of December to the present time at £800 a month would be paid , said Mr Finnegan . |
| 4 | She considers the idea , implicit in much feminist theory , of an authentic self which is said to be socially conditioned by patriarchal power , and argues that this idea owes much to a tradition in Western philosophy which dates back to the Aristotelian distinction between actions that are voluntary and actions which are coerced , a tradition that can be traced through Descartes to the present time . |
| 5 | In the UK at the present time ( 1988 ) the balance of trade deficit has increased from £10.2 billion in 1987 to almost £20 billion in 1988 . |
| 6 | The most economically prosperous parts of the UK at the present time are widely regarded as the towns and cities located on a broad axis extending from Cambridgeshire to Dorset and Avon . |
| 7 | Less than 5 per cent of sticky eyes in newborn babies are caused by the gonococcus in the United Kingdom at the present time , although it is more common in other parts of the world . |
| 8 | As to whether change is necessary or not one can not help pay some regard of that phenomenon of the post war world , Japan : If time travel was a fact and it was possible to transport someone from the middle of the social scale of Victorian Britain to the present time , he would think a revolution had taken place ; but the basic ground rules of social life and commerce would shortly become comprehensible to him . |
| 9 | Two themes expected to run through the study are the impact of computer-aided design , draughting , and manufacture on the design process , and the role and status of the professional engineer in Britain at the present time . |
| 10 | The office has no grassroots support — indeed few women know of its existence , The project merely highlights the vacuous nature of women 's development programmes as conceived in El Salvador at the present time . |
| 11 | He said no one working for the Post Office at Middleton at the present time was in any way part of the investigation . |
| 12 | I myself can not leave London at the present time . |
| 13 | ‘ Although it may be too early for Stuart Pearce at the present time , he will surely be in contention at some stage in the future . ’ |