Example sentences of "[noun prp] at the [adj] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is little in the Outer Hebrides at the present time which can be described as natural woodland . |
| 2 | It was most fortunate that we sailed from Cape Town at the appointed time as he had many engagements in Australia — most important the Opening of Parliament in Melbourne a day or two after his arrival . |
| 3 | Mrs Jackson of Curzon Street reluctantly told Berret of her encounter with a man in Cross Street at the relevant time . |
| 4 | They reported , quite correctly , that over a dozen people had witnessed him in or around the vicinity of Cross Street at the appropriate time . |
| 5 | In the UK at the present time ( 1988 ) the balance of trade deficit has increased from £10.2 billion in 1987 to almost £20 billion in 1988 . |
| 6 | The most economically prosperous parts of the UK at the present time are widely regarded as the towns and cities located on a broad axis extending from Cambridgeshire to Dorset and Avon . |
| 7 | In these anti-avoidance provisions , the relevant test for a " UK customer " is that he is normally resident in the UK and they can therefore apply even if he is physically outside the UK at the relevant time ( eg at the non-UK office concerned ) . |
| 8 | Held , allowing the appeal , that the retraction by a witness in extradition proceedings of evidence previously given in the requesting state did not in itself discredit that evidence and , unless it was worthless , the magistrate was entitled to act upon it in deciding whether there was sufficient evidence to justify an order for committal ; that , equally , a witness 's evidence was not to be automatically discredited by virtue of that witness having been an alleged accomplice of the accused ; and that the magistrate had given proper consideration to the retraction of P. 's evidence and to his being an alleged accomplice when deciding if there was sufficient evidence to justify the applicant 's committal ; that , further , since the provision in article 1 of the Treaty allowing for extradition in respect of offences ‘ committed within the territory of the requesting party ’ having been extended by article 3(2) to cover participation in extradition offences punishable by the laws of both states , the lack of evidence of the applicant 's presence in Sweden at the relevant time did not take the offences outside the ambit of the Treaty ; that under Schedule 1 to the Act of 1989 the magistrate was concerned only with committal proceedings under English procedure in relation to the English crimes specified in the order to proceed and not with the jurisdiction of the Swedish court ; and that , accordingly , the magistrate had been entitled to commit the applicant ( post , pp. 846D–F , 850F — 851A , E — 852C , 853A ) . |
| 9 | Mr. Newman however went on to submit that , before the magistrate could commit the applicant , there must be evidence before him to the effect that the courts of the requesting state had jurisdiction , under its own laws , to try the applicant for his participation in the offences committed in Sweden , when he himself was not in Sweden at the relevant time . |
| 10 | Less than 5 per cent of sticky eyes in newborn babies are caused by the gonococcus in the United Kingdom at the present time , although it is more common in other parts of the world . |
| 11 | Two themes expected to run through the study are the impact of computer-aided design , draughting , and manufacture on the design process , and the role and status of the professional engineer in Britain at the present time . |
| 12 | The office has no grassroots support — indeed few women know of its existence , The project merely highlights the vacuous nature of women 's development programmes as conceived in El Salvador at the present time . |
| 13 | He said no one working for the Post Office at Middleton at the present time was in any way part of the investigation . |
| 14 | Whether this clamour is loud enough to bring about so fundamental a change in the EEC at the very time when Community institutions wish to move in the opposite direction is a question which needs now to be addressed . |
| 15 | I myself can not leave London at the present time . |
| 16 | Anyway , ’ he concluded morosely , ‘ it was established that he arrived in Kinghorn at the expected time . ’ |
| 17 | The same objection applies to a third possibility , namely , that the sections apply only to dealings with property , immovable or movable , situate in England and Wales at the relevant time . |
| 18 | ‘ Although it may be too early for Stuart Pearce at the present time , he will surely be in contention at some stage in the future . ’ |