Example sentences of "[be] [prep] present no " in BNC.

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No Sentence
1 There are at present no specific proposals for changes in the treatment of dominant firm monopolies .
2 It must be frankly recognized that there is at present no means of providing adequate protection for the people of this country against the consequences of an attack with nuclear weapons .
3 The 1957 government White Paper on Defence baldly admitted : ‘ It must be frankly recognized that there is at present no means of providing adequate protection for the people of this country against nuclear attack . ’
4 Professor Hugh Miller , also from Aberdeen University and who had advised on the Commission 's 1984 paper which questioned the link between acidity and fish losses , wrote that ‘ there is at present no evidence of damage ’ and ‘ When worried about the health of our trees it would seem preferable to heed qualified forest pathologists rather than respond to assorted ecologists and conservationists , no matter what their nationality . ’
5 As there is no identifiable physical handicap present , and its causes remain obscure , there is at present no method of preventing the birth of an autistic child .
6 There is at present no effective form of protection for landscape parks .
7 The Commission argues that there is at present no monitoring of environmental quality and trends on a European scale , nor any guarantee that the results of environmental monitoring will be comparable on a Community-wide basis ( a realization brought about through the CORINE programme described later ) .
8 To forestall any immediate and hasty rejection of the foregoing method of assessment of the value of human virtue by the reader , he is reminded that there is at present no rational way in which this can be done .
9 Formal nursing courses reflect these concerns , but there is at present no mechanism for updating the knowledge of those who qualified some time ago .
10 There is at present no consensus about the BCG ( tuberculosis ) vaccine .
11 There is at present no consensus about the BCG ( tuberculosis ) vaccine .
12 While there is at present no firm indication that Christie 's will be following suit , the auction house will have to act quickly if it does decide to raise the rate in order to get the new terms out for the renewed contracts for American consigners which will be issued in the New Year .
13 There is at present no academic discipline which sees it as its specific project to examine the nature of artefacts as cultural forms .
14 More recently , it appears , she has accepted that his government has ceased to exist but she remains deeply hostile to the U.S.C. , and in particular Mr. Mahdi , who are equally hostile to her , and contends that there is at present no government of the Republic of Somalia .
15 There is at present no reliable marker to determine whether autoimmunity or hepatitis C virus infection is the major disease process .
16 There is at present no satisfactory device for measuring rapid pressure fluctuations within a flow .
17 The master of the college , Professor Morris , had issued a tetchy statement to the effect that , while it had been considered advisable to seek police assistance , there was at present no cause for alarm .
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