Example sentences of "[noun pl] at the present time " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the current cuts in housing expenditure , however , very few tenants are likely to be rehoused from the lists at the present time . |
| 2 | Rejecting a suggestion from Zambia 's President Kenneth Kaunda that the ANC should suspend its armed struggle in order to encourage further reforms on the part of the Pretoria government , Mandela said the ANC would make no concessions at the present time . |
| 3 | One discouraging aspect of the relations between nations at the present time is that there is little indication of a decline in nationalist sentiment or in the fervour with which particular national interests are pursued . |
| 4 | Neither approach by itself is adequate to take account of the complexities involved in meeting the needs of our children and our schools at the present time . |
| 5 | Erm , there are no agreed sites at the present time . |
| 6 | Over a hundred MPs in the House of Commons hold government posts at the present time and even the humblest of them — the parliamentary private secretaries — are almost always forced to resign if they vote against the government or even abstain . |
| 7 | The king , troubled by the prince 's displays of temperament and his unwillingness to follow the advice of those who had charge of him , mindful also of his own unrobust health , considered it would be unwise for himself and his brother to receive visitors at the present time . |
| 8 | UK airlines are not sponsoring pilots at the present time , but the school is attracting an increasing number of young people , both from this country and abroad , who are prepared to invest something in the order of £50,000 to train as professional pilots … |
| 9 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 10 | In Rangoon Nu announced : ‘ AFPFL is not calling for a general strike among workers at the present time . |
| 11 | There are a number of imponderables at the present time e.g. the rates to be charged by CCC when it becomes an agency in 1992 , the high annual cost of a direct link , the number of and cost of training staff to prepare data for processing at a bank or internally with a software package available on a PC system . |
| 12 | The first area , which will be no surprise to readers of The Bookseller , is the mind-boggling rate of change that is affecting all businesses at the present time . |
| 13 | This is one respect in which we can see regional differences opening up in the kind of support which relatives can give to each other , although we know very little about how these matters are handled in families at the present time . |
| 14 | And I do n't want to give those figures at the present time . |
| 15 | These floods probably constitute the main agent of erosion in deserts at the present time . |
| 16 | This objection may be made about most human beings as well as about most fictional characters at the present time , when there is no accepted common standard . |
| 17 | It really does appear to illustrate the negligent and Philistine attitude of the majority of CDC councillors at the present time . |
| 18 | The rise of the lay colleges at the present time is largely the fault of the medical profession itself , a result of its consistent disregard for this approach to treatment so that the demand for it far outweighs the practitioners available to supply that demand . |
| 19 | One of the chief causes at the present time was the increase in interest rates , especially for the self-employed . |
| 20 | For Millie , the lesson needed no thinking , for the sister had practically told them what to say , but she wove a story round it as if the incident were happening in Benton Fields at the present time . |
| 21 | Chris Ivory , chief executive at Bedale food firm Dalepak said he knew of a small company which would struggle to stay in business if it had to raise wages at the present time . |
| 22 | I think the government should slow down on all its activities at the present time and concentrate on getting the economy right , and everything else put on the back burner . |
| 23 | I soon realized that if one reversed the direction of time in Penrose 's theorem , so that the collapse became an expansion , the conditions of his theorem would still hold , provided the universe were roughly like a Friedmann model on large scales at the present time . |
| 24 | There is very little objective reason for choosing among these approaches at the present time . |
| 25 | The future It was peculiarly difficult to predict future trends at the present time when it was anticipated that there would be a major re-distribution of work in the trial courts in consequence of legislation to give effect to the recommendations of the Civil Justice Review . |
| 26 | The vital task facing trade unions at the present time is to sell trade unionism — to convince trade union members that they belong to a beneficial , positive and essential organisation . |