Example sentences of "at the present [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the present level of staffing the project should be complete within ten years , with the German funding providing for two members of staff for three years . |
| 2 | The need to read Playboy is of a different order from the need for my bone marrow — in the latter case , it is assumed , at the present level of development of medicine , that no alternative is possible while , in the former , it is much easier to produce alternative means ( including other sorts of magazines ) . |
| 3 | One can easily produce evidence at the present day of great local abundance ( e.g. of starfish or pilchards ) , but I know of nothing on a modern sea-floor to compare with the abundance plus wide distribution of the examples just mentioned . |
| 4 | A great thrust , the Outer Hebrides Thrust or Fault , terminated the Laxfordian sequence of events , and this thrust can be recognised at the present day as a feature on or near the eastern seaboard of the entire Outer Hebrides chain of islands ( see Fig. 7 ) . |
| 5 | There is not one of the erroneous and superstitious beliefs of mankind that are supposed to have been superseded but has left vestiges at the present day in the lower strata of civilized peoples or even in the highest strata of cultivated society . |
| 6 | The next candidate letter at the present position in the graph is then tried . |
| 7 | Exhaustive computer simulations done in the US show that even at the present prices for fuel , conventional sailing ships are only marginally competitive when all is counted . |
| 8 | Looking at the present state of the Top 40 singles chart , the recent appearance of a song entitled Dolphins Make Me Cry by Welsh songwriter/guitarist Martyn Joseph was especially surprising . |
| 9 | Clearly , at the present state of the art , both communication and interpretation of CL results in petrography are dominantly subjective . |
| 10 | Eventually it was hoped to attract " great masses of people now outside the movement who are seriously concerned at the present state of the world … |
| 11 | So far in this section we have looked at the present provision of training and at ways of improving the system . |
| 12 | At the present pace of progress in Brussels , similar changes throughout the EC may not come in for a dozen years or more , and British farmers fear that they will lose business while waiting for European competitors to catch up . |
| 13 | At the present speed of work on the EDDR — when it is finished it will provide much relief for traffic going round the city — the road is unlikely to be completed this millenium . |
| 14 | According to Laurie Boorman , a scientist with the National Environment Research Council , at the present rates of degradation half the areas of coastal marshes would disappear within 50 years . |
| 15 | There are relevant stair er Chairman which you can look out of place at the present moment of time but they will need to be addressed at some point in time in the future and therefore one could be forgiven for wanting to prioritise various but in general terms , the strategy that has been er looked at is the progress of St Albans in general , there may be small elements of it and some of these have already touched upon but in general that is no sound strategy er which over a period of time and in the process of that it will be essential to monitor erm the effect of some of the changes as you go forward to see in fact whether the other elements of strategy that were erm put in to that er work were in fact still necessary and whether they should be have some . |
| 16 | Either we assume that the whole universe is at the present moment in a very improbable state . |
| 17 | In November Nizan correctly assessed the situation when he commented : " At the present moment in time , the policies of the fascist government are being thwarted only by the diplomacy of the USSR and the heroic resistance of the Spanish people " . |
| 18 | At the present rate of referral , numbers are more than set to double during the year . |
| 19 | * At the present rate of destruction many countries whose only real asset is the forest may have none at all by the year 2,000 . |
| 20 | If she was well enough to formulate a view on the question - and at the present rate of progress it looked as if she might be — Elinor would take a dim view of the poisoning of Tibbles . |
| 21 | How many extra people are there in Britain each year , at the present rate of natural increase ? 56 000 000 × 3 ÷ 1000 = … ? |
| 22 | Peter Daley of Waste Management International has pointed out in a lecture to Britain 's Royal Academy of Engineering that landfills , at the present rate of waste generation in Europe , use about two square metres of land per person per century . |
| 23 | Work on the index began in July 1983 , and at the present rate of progress the initial data preparation phase should be finished by January 1988 . |
| 24 | On the subject of Curtis Cup selection , she says : ‘ Oh , that 's a long way off , ’ though at the present rate of progress , it may not be as distant a prospect as she thinks . |
| 25 | By looking at the present distribution of animals and plants , and by comparing this with what was known about geological changes in the past , the evolutionist could seek to explain how the populations of the earth 's various regions had been built up through successive migrations . |
| 26 | These Councils , and another four formed later , continue to operate at the present time as autonomous bodies with their own presidents officers and delegates . |
| 27 | Erm , I ca n't remember the exact conversation but the basics of it were that we were looking for somebody called Lawrence and he was at the present time at erm and that he was in possession of a gun and that the caller was concerned for the safety of the occupants of those premises . |
| 28 | It is however a controversial project because of the cost of its electricity and the question as to whether it is needed at the present time despite electricity being the main growth area in the Brazilian energy demand picture . |
| 29 | Yet it is inevitable that at the present time of confusion and reform we ask why we should be dependent upon these two great blocks of examinations , at these two particular points in a student 's school career . |
| 30 | He said : ’ there is no statistical evidence that is known to me at the present time of people who are actually being discharged from the private sector We do not have evidence to bring to you of a substantial number of people who have been discharged against their will from the private sector . ’ |