Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] at the present [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is possible that the beach on the exposed portions of the coast was originally much wider and that much of it has been destroyed by marine erosion at the present sea level , whereas it has been almost completely preserved in the narrow straits . |
| 2 | The opposite suggestion , that marine planation at the present level is active , has been made from observations of wide platforms truncating hard rocks and apparently related to present sea level . |
| 3 | There is festering resentment in dark green quarters over what is seen as Julia 's reluctance to state baldly that there is no such thing as a green product , or that continued consumption at the present rate can only lead to us all dying in some particularly horrible way . |
| 4 | It 's not all absolutely good news at the present time , because the final boundaries of the area are not yet determined and we are currently in negotiation with the U K government about the precise boundaries of the five B area . |
| 5 | This has no great significance at the present moment when both Departments are housed within the Register House complex and only small inconvenience and delay result . |
| 6 | The Russians have declined the offer to take on such a major project at the present time . |
| 7 | In my opinion it serves no useful purpose at the present time to seek to construe the relevant provisions of the Theft Act by reference to the report which preceded it , namely the Eighth Report of the Criminal Law Revision Committee on Theft and Related Offences ( 1966 ) ( Cmnd. 2977 ) . |
| 8 | This prevents , however , dynamic studies of peristalsis and motility patterns , an area of great interest at the present time . |
| 9 | The ‘ fundamental difficulty at the present time ’ , he continued , ‘ seems to be the impossibility of forecasting with confidence the future lines of social organization . ’ |
| 10 | That 's general policy at the present time it 's a fairly woolly objective that we did n't try at the review , but the traffic management facilities and provisions are observed |
| 11 | The question to whom the omelette and the statue belong is another matter , and Salmond pointed out that the attempts of the older lawyers to transplant the Roman law of specificatio , confusio and the like to our system are of small practical use at the present day . |
| 12 | A terrific industrial upheaval at the present moment might be dangerous from the standpoint of a democratic People 's Peace . |
| 13 | Such is the critical situation at the present day , but the outcome is still unclear : a new triumph of art ( albeit under the name of religion or Wissenschaft itself ? a new barbarism ? new kinds of genius — even perhaps the " artistic Socrates " ? |
| 14 | One looks in vain for a similar geographical situation at the present day . |
| 15 | If this is not possible ( and it usually is n't ) , the golden advice at the present time must be to sell first rather than risk lumbering yourself with the crippling expense of having to borrow for several months or possibly longer . |
| 16 | The average consumption of fat in the Western world at the present time is about 130 grams ( over 4½ ounces ) a day per person . |
| 17 | We can not demonstrate anything really comparable to the sudden mass extinctions of the past happening at the present day , and in the fleeting second we have available that is hardly surprising . |
| 18 | The point made by Mr Bishop about employment , shopping and other land I also wish to respond to , I think one of the other participants did mention the issue of existing provision , it 's been quite clear from the work of the Greater York authorities that certainly shopping terms there is an oversupply of shopping companies in and around the edge of the urban area at the present time , we have a number of major outstanding consents which have not yet been taken up . |
| 19 | Although Mr Wallace agreed that a referendum call was potentially unifying , he said of the convention : ‘ I ca n't see it having any active role at the present time . ’ |