Example sentences of "present itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's the one , me boy , and it has this morning presented itself in four mess-tins . |
| 2 | That was how insanity had always presented itself to Kathleen Lavender 's imagination . |
| 3 | By 1902 Hardy was working on a project which owed its inspiration to boyhood memories of local stories and traditions of Napoleonic times , but had first presented itself as a literary theme in about 1875 . |
| 4 | St William 's has presented itself as a prime mover and so it falls to St William 's to work out how to express itself as a managing agent . |
| 5 | Dear Doctor After five years of reading your informative column , saving me immeasurable instances of possible musi-technical tension , a situation has newly presented itself to me that I can not recollect as being covered before . |
| 6 | The same scenario must have presented itself to Randy , Mitch and Noel . |
| 7 | Despite our progress , no satisfactory way of countering the Morton book the way we did with Lady Colin Campbell 's has yet presented itself . |
| 8 | There are many teachers who feel that things are that bad , and for whom , at some tacit level of decision-making , becoming ‘ like that ’ has presented itself as the only sensible , or the only possible modus operandi that is left . |
| 9 | Such a context might have presented itself during the struggle to secure the passage of the Reform Bill . |
| 10 | But it was a surprising and disturbing thought , all the same , and no sooner had it presented itself than he had another , even more surprising and disturbing . |
| 11 | When Newton had progressed that far in the programme , following a path that had presented itself as more or less necessary from the outset , he began to be concerned about the match between his theory and observation . |
| 12 | Everything of importance has always happened to me in the autumn , every new departure has always presented itself within a dying context . |
| 13 | It also enables management to anticipate both beneficial and adverse trends before the event or take evasive action when the evidence of an emerging problem has only just presented itself . |
| 14 | Christine half-turned then , and glanced at the room as if some ironic comment had presented itself in her mind ; but instead she said , ‘ Anyone can do anything . |
| 15 | They kept slipping away , as her father had already slipped away , with no more than a mumbled excuse , to jot down a line of verse that had presented itself while he stood in some abstraction . |
| 16 | The first indeed had presented itself as no more than vivid memory , though — if she were honest with herself — she would admit it had arisen from a kind of fear . |
| 17 | Had I taken up my station on the same day two , three or even four hundred years earlier the same spectacle would have presented itself , completely unchanged . |
| 18 | Richard Coleman , managing directors of Compass Commercial Services , agreed that the MoD was a significant marketplace , although most of the contracts were now being let on a retender basis and a new insecurity in what was already a high risk business had recently presented itself — the application to the public sector of Transfer of Undertakings legislation , when incoming contractors are obliged to retain staff at current rates of pay , terms and conditions , or pick up the redundancy liability . |
| 19 | Negotiations continue but no clear way forward has yet presented itself , the Cooking Centre is zoned for housing and there is little prospect that the Region would be prepared to acquire it at the residential land value — £150,000 . |
| 20 | For busy housewives , Christmas can present itself with other problems — over-excited children and a million and one things to do . |
| 21 | A CELEBRATION of Mass or a service of the Word ? — the choice will sometimes present itself when our speaker 's witness calls for time and flexibility for a worthwhile presentation . |
| 22 | It is a problem which comes up at various points in considering the relations between biology and human practices , and may be put in the following way : how is a phenotypic character which would present itself in other species as a behavioural tendency represented in a species which has a culture , language and conceptual thought ? |
| 23 | This does not matter when Greece can present itself as a lonely outpost of western ideas , defying the barbarians ; then the West rallies round . |
| 24 | But we do not know how that self-contained unity will present itself to us . |
| 25 | For example , one article , entitled ‘ Strategy — the way forward ’ , discussed whether the party should have a secret/clandestine leadership , which would be a ‘ revolutionary elite cadre ’ , or whether , as Vanguard advocated , the National Front should present itself as a ‘ democratic , electoral/community party ’ ( January 1987 ) . |
| 26 | The paradox does not present itself in quite so acute a form if a weaker version of the contextual approach is adopted , which holds merely that the meaning of a lexical unit reveals itself through its contextual relations , without commitment as to what meaning ‘ really is ’ . |
| 27 | Given the lack of development in many rural areas it is not surprising that the dependency of rural workers on agriculture for employment has remained , nor that so many school-leavers take a job on the land even though they have no intention of remaining there if the choice to leave should present itself . |
| 28 | It was Suor Eusebia who eventually persuaded them to put off reporting the escape until the following morning in the faint hope that some excuse might present itself . |
| 29 | Something more soothing would present itself . |
| 30 | Maybe when they reached the lake some better opportunity would present itself . |