Example sentences of "[was/were] present to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The DUP 's view of the Ulster crisis , its solution , and the Assembly were presented to the Ulster electorate : |
| 2 | It was here that the kings of Hungary were presented to the people . |
| 3 | Both were presented to the Princess at the naming ceremony of 706 on June 6th 1985 . |
| 4 | Court dress was the particular form of costume worn by ladies when they were presented to the monarch . |
| 5 | Until 22 December 1989 , the General-Secretary and his wife were presented to the Romanian people ( despite Elena 's highly visible furs and cashmere clothing ) as a hard-working , abstemious couple with only one thought — the well-being of ‘ The People ’ . |
| 6 | The Runefangs were presented to the ruling Emperor who divided them between the Elector counts . |
| 7 | A BOTTLE of sherry and flowers were presented to the first resident of a new nursing home which opened this week . |
| 8 | Between 1870 and 1885 , 17,367 petitions against the Acts , with 2,606,429 signatures were presented to the House of Commons , and over 900 public meetings were held by supporters of repeal . |
| 9 | The order in which the techniques were presented to the subjects was varied , in a further attempt to reduce the effect of system unfamiliarity . |
| 10 | It was not until the following Monday that the affidavits on which Julia had worked so hard and for so long were presented to the court . |
| 11 | The results of the officer-led exercise were presented to the Labour group . |
| 12 | Copies were presented to the hotel which was the squadron Officers ' Mess during the Second World War and to the chairman of the 617 Squadron Association John Langston CBE . |
| 13 | Debbie Avis and a representative from the Amro Bank attended a lavish function at the Guildhall and were presented to the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress . |
| 14 | As part of an arrangement with the CICA , winning and other selected entries from the 1992 CICA CAD Drawing Award were presented to the Collection . |
| 15 | Two proposals were presented to the Congress on Nov. 1 , and the more radical was supported by 618 deputies . |
| 16 | The proposals were reported to have been agreed upon by the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) and the Oromo Liberation Front ( OLF ) on Oct. 19 and were presented to the Council of Representatives on Nov. 18 . |
| 17 | Alternative Bosnian Serb constitutional proposals based on the three-way subdivision of Bosnia-Hercegovina , as laid down in the March 1992 Lisbon agreement [ see p. 38832 ] with provision for joint foreign , defence and other policies , were presented to the Geneva conference on Nov. 19 . |
| 18 | The brief period of time in which the words were presented to the subject in our experiment , however , limited the kinds of words that could be used as stimuli . |
| 19 | Dissenting Labour councillor Eddie Dryden refused to support the spending cuts and hit out at the way the proposals were presented to the Labour group prior to the meeting . |
| 20 | The distressing story of Miss X is contained among more mundane reports on council house allocations , lets and demolitions which were presented to the subcommittee . |
| 21 | Commemorative bronze medallions were presented to the InterSpray crew — 13 who completed the whole round trip and four ‘ one-leggers ’ . |
| 22 | While studying the relationship between visual stimuli and the EEG , Adrian found that if a regular series of bright flashes was presented to the subject 's eyes there was an equally regular series of blips in the EEG recorded from electrodes on the scalp over the visual areas at the back of the skull . |
| 23 | A Sword of Excellence was presented to the Central Band through private donations by Branch members . |
| 24 | A PRIVATE member 's bill to introduce payments for Crown servants who were exposed to radiation during nuclear weapons tests and have since contracted leukaemia and other cancers , and to the dependants of those who have died , was presented to the Commons by Mr Bob Clay ( Lab . |
| 25 | The resolution , co-sponsored by Australia , New Zealand , and 14 other states , including several Pacific Island nations , was presented to the Second Committee of the United Nations General Assembly in November 1989 . |
| 26 | On March 19th a long-awaited report on reforms to the domestic-equity market was presented to the exchange council by a committee chaired by Mr Nigel Elwes of S.G. Warburg . |
| 27 | He was presented to the Governor , Lord Plunkett , who presented him with a portrait of himself . |
| 28 | When he was presented to the church of Northampton , Robert Grosseteste , the saintly Bishop of Lincoln , refused to admit him . |
| 29 | Later an affadavit was presented to the High Court in London supporting an application by the foundation for injunctions freezing all Aberdour 's assets to be extended to any overseas holdings . |
| 30 | It was presented to the Aids organisation by Brian May , a guitarist in the group , and drummer Roger Taylor to set up the Freddie Mercury Memorial Trust . |