Example sentences of "[subord] at the [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Computers , especially microcomputers and terminals with monitors , have been claimed to be harmful to the health of the operator because of radioactive emissions although at the present time there does not appear to be any conclusive proof that a real danger to health exists .
2 In relation to Europe and 1992 , it is expected that there will be substantial growth in many markets ( particularly Spain ) , although at the present time EC rules and regulations on pensions are still being liberalised .
3 Throughout the last 120 years , the demands on the experience and accumulated information of the Geological Survey in Scotland have never been greater than at the present time .
4 Firstly , when we were first discussing the sale , the market was somewhat more buoyant than at the present time .
5 Hahnemann and his followers left us a legacy of many hundreds of remedies and the number has continued to grow until at the present time there are between two and three thousand remedies in the homoeopathic materia medica , each with its remedy picture , some of which have been more extensively worked out than others .
6 Whereas at the present time , with the buses , it 's all deficits .
7 While at the current time the main focus of this work has been to better assess need through localities , work is being undertaken to identify ways in which budgets could be allocated to localities and purchasing carried out at the local level .
8 These differing responses , the fundamental cause of most of the wars of history , were not necessarily taken with a knowledge of the effect that they would ultimately have , for at the relevant time the choice would not have been as clear to those making them , as it would be to minds educated to standards prevailing centuries later .
9 For at the very time he was sitting alone in the house , in the early hours of the morning of the funeral day , reading again his father 's will , the most modern ship in the world , the SS Titanic , was going down stern first , with all its lights blazing into the icy waters of the North Atlantic .
10 It has been suggested that the Arab ‘ test ’ referred to Ludwig 's star , though at the present time it is far below naked-eye visibility .
11 In 1932 , for example , Mrs Q. D. Leavis had roundly condemned the cheapening and weakening influences of the popular press and popular novels which produced ‘ merely crude states of mind ’ and what she called ‘ the disintegration of the reading public ’ : ‘ The reading capacity of the general public , it must be concluded , has never been so low as at the present time . ’
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