Example sentences of "[vb pp] at the present " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirdly there have been studies of geomorphological processes affected by human activity and particularly important stimuli were produced by Wolman ( 1967a ) who suggested the way in which sediment yield varied at the present time between urban and non-urban areas and extended this to provide a model of change of sediment yield in the northeast of the USA since 1700 , and also by Douglas ( 1969 ) . |
| 2 | So far in this section we have looked at the present provision of training and at ways of improving the system . |
| 3 | The erm point about are distribution within Greater York is that we have attempted to look at this in what I think is a a rational and realistic manner , we have looked , and you 'll see this from our supplementary paper , I apologize for its lateness , but I think it 's benefited from the additional thought that could be given to it , we have looked both backwards , at the present day , and forwards , we 've looked backwards at past build rates , we 've looked at the present day position in the sense of the population shares within Greater York , and we 've looked forwards in terms of the commitment figures that are given in the N Y one paper that we 've just been looking at , and taking all those things into account , and adding in what we see as the right location for a new settlement , namely Selby district , we come to the figures that are in our supplementary paper , and there is clearly a great deal of common ground between the evidence you get from looking either at past building rates or population shares , as now , or future commitments which all point towards a broadly similar distribution , we say , with the addition of a new feature namely the new settlement , so that I commend those figures to you as somebody who 's actually dared to put their toe , or maybe their whole body into the water , and given you not only some numbers , but also a basis by which if you should er have a different Greater York figure in mind , a basis on which that could be rationally er approached , I would not certainly defend to the last ditch the need to put a figure of fifty dwellings into the structure plan for the Hambledon part of Greater York , there may be a cut off point beyond which you do n't go , but certainly for Ryedale and Selby , with very substantial numbers there is a need to indicate what the appropriate division should be , and you could not for instance indicate what the er Ryedale non Greater York figure was , without someone telling us the , as the Chairman rightly said , having an idea of what the Ryedale Greater York figure should be , so it is n't really I think feasible to have district figures for non Greater York , and one Greater York figure , that does n't er get away from the issue , and nor does it solve the potential for confusion . |
| 4 | There is no safe atmospheric level of asbestos fibres universally accepted at the present time ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Look , what you 've got at the present moment , Private Nobody , is a badly sprained ankle . |
| 7 | No information exists for the data requested at the present time . |
| 8 | No information exists for the data requested at the present time . |
| 9 | No further information exists for the data requested at the present time . |
| 10 | No further information exists for the data requested at the present time . |
| 11 | No Quality Assurance information exists for the data requested at the present time . |
| 12 | No Special Relationships exist for the user requested at the present time . |
| 13 | No Software Performance Report ( SPR ) information exists for the data requested at the present time . |
| 14 | No Software Status Report ( SSR ) information exists for the data requested at the present time . |
| 15 | No LIFESPAN user names exist from the start name requested at the present time . |
| 16 | I 'll be talking in a few moments time about aviation travel and the risks and , indeed , the trends that are being reflected at the present time , but erm before we move to that let's just think about those of us who perhaps have decided we wo n't go abroad . |
| 17 | The strict settlement method is rarely used at the present day . |
| 18 | So , providing you say yes there will be occasions when the machine can take over some sort of part of the teacher 's role , then fair enough , yes , but I think one of the interesting ways in which computers are used at the present time , particularly again in the primary school , is as orchestrators of group work . |
| 19 | Just why there are more calories in the human excreta following the intake of a high-fibre diet is less than fully understood at the present stage of scientific research . |
| 20 | This is a United Nations embargo , er and er all ships are required to comply with it , er and er the British , Australian , American ships which combined in this action , and we 've just had another one , and er also , there which involved also different ships , but involved er British , Australian and American ships as well , er and that ship is being inspected at the present time . |
| 21 | The Cleveland Inquiry ( Secretary of State for Social Services , 1988 ) noted that : ‘ It has been impossible from the evidence provided to the Inquiry to arrive at any consensus or to obtain any reliable figures of the general prevalence of sexual abuse of children in the country or in Clevelend ’ ( p.4 ) and later comments that : ‘ We are strongly of the opinion that great caution should be exercised at the present time in accepting percentages as to the prevalence and incidence of sexual abuse . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Clearly this maturity profile has a much steeper gradient than all the late Paleozoics examples which can be related to the much higher geothermal gradient of 35–40°C/km recognised at the present day ( Albrecht et al. 1976 ) . |
| 24 | This information is based on what is known at the present time , which is August 1989 . |
| 25 | But we know that there must have been some irregularities , because otherwise the matter in the universe would still be perfectly uniformly distributed at the present epoch , instead of being clumped together in stars and galaxies . |
| 26 | These proposals are aimed at providing the public with more reassurances than are provided at the present time as to whether boards of directors have fulfilled their stewardship responsibilities . |
| 27 | Agree that charges for the Remuneration Certificate service be not introduced at the present time . |
| 28 | We know rather little about what kind of bargains are struck at the present time although inheritance is always a possible way of ensuring that the balance of support does not tip too much in one direction , even if its use is not spoken about openly . |
| 29 | The majority of housing is provided for this group-housing schemes for single people being rare , and the few that exist being blatantly restricted and cut at the present time . |
| 30 | It 's not united at the present day , there are far too many lefts and rights and centres . |