Example sentences of "[noun sg] was present to " in BNC.

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1 By the time that the deal was presented to Unionist MPs on 12 November , two important developments had taken place .
2 The photograph was presented to the Royal Bank 's archives by Don Byford , formerly of Glyn 's Registrars Department in Lombard Street .
3 As part of the investigation into attitudes to mass electricity , the project explores the reception by the public of plans for a National Grid and looks at the way in which this programme was presented to those most likely to be environmentally and economically affected by its construction .
4 The programme was presented to the Heads of Government at a summit meeting in Milan in June 1985 and eventually the Single European Act came into force in July 1987 .
5 At a committee dinner held in his honour the day following his 90th birthday , Percy was told that the committee would like him to accept the role of branch president , and a commemorative plaque was presented to him to mark the occasion .
6 An ultimatum was presented to the president to appoint Tan Malaka head of the government with Sudirman in total control of the armed forces .
7 In June the 1992 Royal Gold Medal for Architecture was presented to Peter Rice .
8 In Manchester , when the Baptist minister of Union Chapel , Alexander Maclaren celebrated his silver jubilee , his portrait was presented to Manchester Corporation .
9 I do not know who told her that the doctors had refused to meet her and I heard nothing from her until after a first meeting when what came to be known as the Goodman Plan was presented to the government and the doctors had convened at Downing Street .
10 Only trials where the digit was correctly reported were used in analysis , to ensure that the stimulus was presented to the appropriate hemisphere .
11 The draft of the new constitution outlining the presidential and multiparty system agreed at the February 1990 conference on reform was presented to the High Council of the Republic on April 12 , 1990 , and its contents announced on May 15 , prior to a referendum in late 1990 .
12 IN FEBRUARY and LCCI Certificate of Centre Registration was presented to the newly registered London School of Public Relations ( LSPR ) in Jakarta by Marketing Manager of the LCCIEB .
13 On the evening of Thursday 13 September , architecture was celebrated at Portland Place : the first annual Trustees ' Medal was presented to Norman Foster for the Willis Faber & Dumas building in Ipswich .
14 The porter was reprimanded and a humble apology was presented to his Lordship .
15 Normally subjects were able to detect the presence of this gap equally well whether the square was presented to left or right of the fixation point .
16 Then the opportunity of having an unexpected extra curate was presented to them by George Carey , then Bishop of Bath and Wells , in late July and a new leader moved with his family into the Carters ' house at the end of September .
17 It was only in the continuing silence that it came to her that her defenceless back was presented to the rest of the room .
18 Will the Home Secretary acknowledge that fresh evidence was presented to him in the summer and that his review is long overdue ?
19 His VC was presented to him in the Western Desert by Montgomery , and he returned to New Zealand in 1943 after active service in Greece , Crete and North Africa .
20 On Feb. 26 the policy was presented to the Sejm ( lower chamber ) , which referred it for a report by its economic , finance and budgetary committee .
21 The first Certificate of Appreciation to be awarded in the North Eastern Area was presented to Sam Parker earlier this year at the Branch AGM .
22 His collection was presented to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington , DC , and the reptiles in it were named by Professor Edward Cope of Philadelphia , who gave the lizard the specific name oculatus because of the black-edged white spots on its brown body , which resemble eyes .
23 The collection was presented to the pounding beat of aggressive rock music .
24 The day before its publication , the working paper was presented to a closed session of the newly formed Malaysian Business Council .
25 The communal plate of silver gilt was presented to the church by Thomas Lamplugh in 1689 .
26 Once the scientists were sure sucralose was safe , a petition to allow its commercial use was presented to the US Food and Drug Administration in 1987 .
27 In February 1987 a mass petition was presented to the Queen asking that a referendum be held in Northern Ireland to determine whether the agreement should continue .
28 Langbaurgh MP Ashok Kumar said more East Cleveland people would be asked to sign before the petition was presented to the House of Commons .
29 A petition was presented to Henry McCubbin , the Labour Euro MP for North-east Scotland , stating the Timex workers ' case and calling for the introduction of standards of employment protection equalled to those in other European countries .
30 The Nat Abrahams Rose Bowl for the winners of the National Catering Business Game was presented to a team from South Devon College .
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