Example sentences of "[to-vb] at the present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | But there will be an opportunity for members to look at the present programme which will need pruning to get it down to those guidelines , and they can obviously make any comments they wish to , or any advice they wish to give the P A G in terms of individual schemes or the detail . |
3 | All of these are still very cumbersome to use at the present stage of development but there is no doubt that they will improve . |
4 | I am saying that , as an organisation , it can not cope with the work it has to do at the present time . |
5 | It may increase slightly but if fertility continues to decline at the present rate that is unlikely . |
6 | I do n't support this blanket band of reducing surplus places for the sake of reducing surplus places , like the district auditor , and if quote right , it 's an accountant looking at erm , looking at figures and nothing else , and I think that is the problem with the issue , erm , we 've seen in other schools , in larger schools , where they 've developed erm , classrooms into a decent library , or resource area , but in the , in the , in the overall spectrum they 're still counted as classroom spaces , and if that classroom was put back er in , into a class , the school would suffer environmentally , because that school would have no library facilities , no resource facilities which it 's able to appreciate at the present time . |
7 | Whether Skelton needs to expand at the present moment is not for me to say . |
8 | These Councils , and another four formed later , continue to operate at the present time as autonomous bodies with their own presidents officers and delegates . |
9 | He is too useful for me to discard at the present time . |