Example sentences of "presented [pron] [prep] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Gregory Elliott has recently emphasized , although Althusser always presented himself as the figure of the rigours of orthodoxy against the eclecticism of the existentialists , in his own work he was just as catholic , allying Marxism with non-Marxist philosophy , even if it was a history of science to which , he claimed , ‘ French philosophy owes its renaissance in the last thirty years ’ . |
| 2 | At 9.55 he presented himself at the door of the tall and impassive apartment-house a block back from Great Portland Street in the Marble Arch district . |
| 3 | ALISTAIR PRESENTED himself at the offices of the TLM in an unblinking trance of punctuality . |
| 4 | He responded to an imperative summons with an ill grace , and presented himself in the drawing-room of Rose 's hired house in a mood of ill-concealed annoyance . |
| 5 | As there was no piano in the field , Betty recorded her own music but , on the day , the only power to plug the recording machine into presented itself in the shape of an ice cream van . |
| 6 | Perhaps it was then , rather than in 1290 as often supposed , that the priory presented him to the rectory of North Marston ( Buckinghamshire ) , where his cult was to develop , and which he held until his death . |
| 7 | By 1630 he had come to the notice of William Cavendish , Earl ( later Duke ) of Newcastle [ q.v. ] , who presented him to the living of Tormarton , Gloucestershire , and made him his chaplain at Welbeck , Nottinghamshire , where , in collaboration with Newcastle 's brother , the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish [ q.v. ] , he maintained a correspondence , especially on optics , with mathematicians such as Walter Warner and John Pell [ qq.v. ] , and with Thomas Hobbes [ q.v. ] , whose references to Payne indicate respect for his character and abilities . |
| 8 | Dean has worked with the company for many years , and general manager Alun Williams presented him with the gift of his choice — an electric drill . |
| 9 | The retiring president , Mrs Beryl Abbott , welcomed Mrs Archer as the new president and presented her with the badge of office . |
| 10 | The Montgomerie family generously presented it into the safe-keeping of Ayr County Council and when the Council was incorporated into Strathclyde Region , the trophy was passed to Cunninghame District Council . |
| 11 | Six years before she died she presented it to the Municipality of Antibes ; now pieces she and her husband acquired in the Twenties , particularly from the 1923 sale of the Anthony de Rothschild collection at Aston Clinton , are coming up . |
| 12 | President Jorge Serrano , announcing the peace initiative on April 8 , presented it in the context of the process launched by the Arias peace plan ( also known as Esquipulas II — see pp. 35441-42 ; 37269 ) in 1987 , and the agreement concluded in Oslo in March 1990 [ see p. 37372 ] . |
| 13 | The following day , having asked some leading questions of our local newsagent — Mr Bales always seemed to know exactly what was going on in the terrace and was only too happy to share his knowledge with anyone who wanted to pass the time of day — I presented myself at the offices of John D. Wood in Mount Street . |