Example sentences of "have been presented [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What has been presented as a simple pill-popping exercise is , in fact , an intensely medicalised and painful procedure which can need four clinic visits and last 12 days . ’ |
| 2 | The struggle to decipher has been presented as a good thing in itself , though construing sentences is not the same thing as achieving intellectual understanding . |
| 3 | The inclusion of ‘ subsidiarity ’ in the Maastricht Treaty on European Union has been presented as a great victory for those who wanted to see the centralising , Federalist and irrevocable proposals of the Treaty given some sort of counterbalance for the rights of the nation state . |
| 4 | General Gracey , who commanded the 20th Indian Division , has been presented as a no-nonsense sort of general . |
| 5 | If one context has been presented as an exemplar , however , evidence for the pupils ' grasp of the idea should be sought in a different context . |
| 6 | The computer programming language Logo , in particular , has been presented as an ideal medium for allowing children to develop their thinking skills . |
| 7 | A Coalport collector 's plate has been presented to a historic Air Force squadron to mark the 50th anniversary of one of the most daring air raids of all time . |
| 8 | JS has been presented with a Golden Pen Award from the National Association of Pension Funds Ltd [ NAPF |
| 9 | The French parliament has been presented with a white paper from Environment Minister , Brice Lalonde , containing measures designed to bring France 's environmental performance up to par with Europe 's " greener " countries . |
| 10 | An Oxford researcher who is crippled by illness has been presented with an international award for his research on the Amazonian rain forest . |
| 11 | And fifteen minutes later , with all the completed questionnaires returned , there was good reason to suppose that Morse could be right , since three of those concerned , Eddie Stratton , Howard Brown , and John Ashenden , appeared temporarily unable to provide corroboration of their individual whereabouts and activities during the key period of the previous afternoon — the afternoon when the original groups , three of them , had been re-formed slightly ( following Kemp 's telephone call ) , and when anyone wishing to absent himself for some purpose would have been presented with a wonderful opportunity so to do . |
| 12 | Asquith 's reform had been presented as an interim measure and the preamble to his Bill stated that the Lords " powers were being curtailed pending the introduction of a reform of their composition . |
| 13 | One possible drawback could be that some people might decide to take an overdose as a result of learning about it through the media or public discussion , even if the behaviour had been presented as an inappropriate way of coping . |
| 14 | Thousands of people had been presented with an alternative and had decided according to an inner inspiration . |
| 15 | Again I thought , well , the world 's there whenever I want it and I had been presented with an incredible opportunity . ’ |
| 16 | He quoted " dramatic data " which had been presented to a recent meeting of a committee charged with deciding the future of the shell . |
| 17 | Sunderland-company Food For Thought have been presented with a Young Enterprise of the Year award at a luncheon in London . |
| 18 | To mark the achievement singer Tim Sanders and guitarist Anthony Machin have been presented with a framed disc and plaque by local model Janine Bellis . |
| 19 | The Cat Nab Clog Dancers from Saltburn have been presented with a large box of red non-wrinkle tights following their appeal on Esther Rantzen 's That 's Life programme . |
| 20 | Bristol 's ambitious plans have been presented to a wideranging audience : the leaders of many of the largest companies in this country , including , for example , BT , Sainsbury 's , IBM and Hewlett Packard , Booker and United Biscuits , Smith Kline Beecham and ICI ; the Directors of the major charitable trusts , such as the Wellcome Foundation , the Leverhulme Trust , CRC and Action Research , and the Rayne and Nuffield Foundations ; Government and learned institutions including the Royal Society , the Advisory Board for the Research Councils , MRC and MAFF ; and the press and media such as The Economist , The Director and Nature , together with leading journalists ( not least Bristol graduates Sue Lawley , Rosemary Hartill and Liz Howells ) . |
| 21 | In order to show more clearly the significant impact of exceptional items on the results for the year , these items have been presented in a separate column on the face of the profit and loss accounts . |
| 22 | But Marxism and socialism are not the only nineteenth-century political theories which have been presented in a new way during recent decades . |