Example sentences of "to present [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are the kinds of medical problems faced by older people more likely to present as an emergency than those posed by younger age groups ? |
| 2 | Again , if she could trade in a small part of the total value of the child benefit accruing to her , she would have a sizeable sum to present as a down-payment on a house . |
| 3 | Furthermore , even with this sample we have noted that many were either pressured to present for help or ambivalent about the helping regimes . |
| 4 | The second course ( to be held in the second term ) will require students to present for discussion and peer criticism the theoretical , methodological and empirical bases which they intend to use in their chosen field of enquiry . |
| 5 | For example , Christine Horton ( 1989 ) told the conference she regretted that many aspects of policing had a symbolic role which were not conducive to quantitative measures and were difficult to present with absolute objectivity . |
| 6 | A survey has shown that children who suffer upper-respiratory-tract infections and middle-ear infections are more likely to present with management problems and temper tantrums than children who have not suffered these illnesses ( Bax et al . |
| 7 | In general patients with chronic angina have diffuse coronary disease , with few blocked vessels , whereas the myocardial infarction group tend to present with at least one blocked vessel , but once that thrombus is cleared their resultant coronary disease is less severe than the chronic stable angina sufferer . |
| 8 | It was my privilege to present with a satellite dish as a retirement gift from his colleagues , customers and the company . |
| 9 | To draw a pie chart you first need to convert the information you want to present into percentages ( as you did with your personal budget on page 148 ) . |
| 10 | At the Gloucester Forest Eyre of 1282 the judges ruled that every forester of fee was to have his own roll of attachments of vert and venison to present before them . |
| 11 | It called on the Defence and Interior Ministries and the KGB to present within three months draft proposals for reforming political cells in military and state security bodies so that they would " pursue state policy " . |
| 12 | His immediate solution was to present in The Lord of the Rings a whole hierarchy of styles . |
| 13 | ‘ A Whiter Shade of Pale ’ , launched during Art Cologne in November and on show until 19 December , is Kittelman 's challenge to the ‘ over organised audience ’ attracted by the art fair , an attempt to present in a commercial gallery the type of exhibition more usually seen in a Kunsthalle . |
| 14 | It tends to present in elderly people , who may not be known to be diabetic . |
| 15 | Postnikova also manages to present in its possible light Tchaikovsky 's Sonata , which is distinctly heavy going . |
| 16 | Furthermore , Picasso was anxious to present in each image as much essential information about the subject as he could . |
| 17 | First stop was Stornoway where Ewen Munro , the Manager , was on hand to relieve me of an important part of my luggage , The Crofter of the Year Cup , which I was to present in Stornoway at a Dinner on the Friday once I had returned from my more distant island travels . |
| 18 | Kassin , Ellsworth and Smith ( 1989 ) found that 70% of a sample of 63 experts felt that this phenomenon is reliable enough for psychologists to present in court-room testimony — the experts in this study generally had a PhD in psychology and over half of them reported having actually testified about eyewitness testimony . |
| 19 | THE timeless fascination of Sophocles 's Antigone has many explanations , not least in its ability to present in dramatic form many of the most delicate , painful questions concerning government and politics , and with the uncertain ability of human beings to co-exist in society . |
| 20 | Welcome back to Shrewsbury Flower Show , I 'm joined by Central 's Gardening expert Howard Drury , clutching the Central Trophy which we are about to present in a moment , but erm your impressions of the show ? |
| 21 | By now , they should have had an outline to present to the sponsors . |
| 22 | Once looked upon as a valley of humility between two mountains of conceit — New York City and Philadelphia — the Garden State now has a much sharper image to present to the world . |
| 23 | Yet , although the leaders of both sides of industry worked hard to achieve a common agreement on policies to present to the government the talks , and the influence they exerted , began to wither away after a couple of years , and did not survive into the 1930s . |
| 24 | For you must really endeavour to get ahead with your composition , and that you can do if you have in readiness copies of symphonies and divertimenti to present to a Prince or to some other patron … the divertimenti can be copied very quickly , even though it is true that yours have a number of parts and are rather long … |
| 25 | In June 1962 the NCCL had adopted a resolution from the Connolly Association calling for an inquiry into civil liberties in Northern Ireland ; the NICCL seems to have been set up in response and as its first action , in July , it held a meeting to prepare a memorandum on civil rights to present to Mr Justice Bose of the International Commission of jurists , who was visiting Belfast . |
| 26 | John Paris , in his biography of Davy published in 1825 , wrote : ‘ I have been able to present to the world a complete history of those proceedings which have so happily led to discovery of which it is not too much to say that it is at once the pride of science , the triumph of humanity and the glory of the age in which we live . ’ |
| 27 | It was in London that you could live anonymously , could create your own ambience , could deliberately fabricate the persona which you chose to present to the world . |
| 28 | A remarkable revolt by Europe 's underclass is threatening , if not to wreck , at least to discolour the modernised , modish Spain that the country 's prime minster , Felipe González , intends to present to the world in 1992 . |
| 29 | The suspicion at Hillsborough was that United wanted something positive to present to their annual meeting but were left with nothing to say after the brisk response from Francis . |
| 30 | I do n't believe in the God the parson used to present to us three times on a Sunday . ’ |