Example sentences of "[prep] the present time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although for the present time this generation has strong feelings for the PLO and its chairman , Yasser Arafat , they have grown impatient with the niceties of political diplomacy . |
| 2 | The relative value of doing so measured against the cost of the associated hard and software , however , rules it out for the present time at least . |
| 3 | These media , which are for the present time state-owned , are therefore expected to devote a significant amount of air-time to the running of radio schools and the promotion of mass adult literacy education , as well as the study of other basic subjects . |
| 4 | These media , which are for the present time state-owned , are therefore expected to devote a significant amount of air-time to the running of radio schools and the promotion of mass adult literacy education , as well as the study of other basic subjects . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Well , I mean , we do n't , we do n't intend to equity account B Sky B for the present time anyway . |
| 7 | Within the academic theory of the present time , approaches may either begin with literature , or with disciplines external to it . |
| 8 | It is this School which has continued to influence , both directly and indirectly , the best dressage riders and instructors of the present time . |
| 9 | These are the essential demands of the present time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A more realistic approach might be to attempt to reduce the pace of change to meet the economic and environmental needs of the present time . |
| 12 | Development , or modernization , has been seen for the most part in terms of a simple distinction between ‘ traditional ’ and ‘ modern ’ , ‘ underdeveloped ’ and ‘ developed ’ , ‘ agrarian ’ and ‘ industrial ’ societies , in the context of the present time , or of very recent history . |
| 13 | and Forteshegh ) to Forsey , the form in which it has stayed in and around the small area where the estate lay , close to Bridport , until the present time . |
| 14 | to delay the implementation of the new structure until the present time as requested by NALGO to allow greater consultation ; |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | asserted that in the present time the defendant 's liability in Rylands v. Fletcher itself ‘ could simply have been placed on the defendant 's failure of duty to take reasonable care , ’ and it seems a logical inference from this and from the judgment as a whole that the Court of Appeal considered the rule to have no useful function in modern times . |
| 19 | The leasor 's father " … in his life tyme , did say that the making of a quintall of Copper did then stand but in 17s or 18s , and but of late years 25s , and yet ( in the present time ) it seemeth to be rated sometimes at 32s a Quintall , and now very lately charged with an encrease of 1s of every Quintall … |
| 20 | updating report , Chairman , I 've these past , the contract for the on-site services has now been let by , by the County Council 's private ent department , they 're actually going in the present time . |
| 21 | This rivalry , reflected in the conflicts between the successor political parties , and the interest groups they represent , has continued to be the main engine of Nigerian politics to the present time . |
| 22 | It is his type that has been projected as a desirable up to the present time , although I feel that recently , Rottweilers in Germany have become slightly lighter in build and longer in the loin , a very workmanlike animal , designed for Schutzhund work . |
| 23 | The authors observe that up to the present time most obsolescence studies have been characterized by a superficial approach to what is a highly complex situation of interlocking factors . |
| 24 | Now she suddenly thought what an interesting and novel item it would make in the fete if the Pack dressed up as Brownies through the years , showing the Brownie uniform from the first days to the present time . |
| 25 | Indeed there seems to have been little diminution in this publishing bonanza up to the present time . |
| 26 | Therefore I believe that man and his God have evolved together over that immense period of time which started with the advent of earthly life , reaches right through to the present time and will continue onwards forever , or until there is no longer life on earth . |
| 27 | The Third period reaches from the end of the Second period , right through to the present time and on for ever , or until there is no longer life on earth . |
| 28 | In posing the idea of such an ‘ iron law ’ Bukharin unwittingly predicted the actual course of events in the Soviet Union that has persisted up to the present time , that is , the continual shortfall of consumer goods production as compared to the growing population and the growth in monetary incomes . |
| 29 | Such confrontation could so interrupt the subconscious flow that he would , in fact , be brought back with a jolt to the present time and would be unable to continue with the regression at all . |
| 30 | At the end of the session , I brought Maxine back to the present time and out of the hypnotic state and asked her what she felt . |