Example sentences of "present [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 27 November 1777 ) Among his complaints were that Mozart and his mother had stayed too long in Munich and Augsburg using up their money on lodging expenses without having any means of earning money , that Mozart was not keeping him fully apprised of exactly where his plans lay , how he was proposing to get from one place to another and by which route and when , that he was not keeping up with his composition , nor arranging to have existing works copied so that he could present them to an influential Prince or noble , and that he had not taken the right sorts of composition with him — too many symphonies and not enough church music . |
| 2 | You should present them with a sense of commitment . |
| 3 | It 's a constant challenge that I 'm centuries away from even thinking about mastering , but it 's definitely presented me with a universe of what 's out there left to do . |
| 4 | An offshore worker has presented me with a detailed file containing his experiences as a safety representative . |
| 5 | You have presented me with the key , and I now perceive all of its hitherto latent beauties . ’ |
| 6 | I had expected , perhaps because the image she had presented me with the week before had been more domestic , someone less ambiguous and far less assured . |
| 7 | I was angry as hell at the time and disappointed , too , for this was a strongly Labour-controlled council , but looking back now I realize that this was the best thing that could have happened to the group , for now we could present ourselves to the people of Rotherham as a genuine minority with a grievance . |
| 8 | And if King Fahd refuses to have them there , then he can no longer present himself as the guardian , on behalf of the Muslim world , of the holy places . |
| 9 | Having been primed by Draper back in the hotel room on who played or produced what , Branson would present himself with a box of tapes and play just one track by each artist ; enough to whet the appetite , but not so much as to test his customer 's patience — or indeed Branson 's own musical knowledge . |
| 10 | Head tilted back , and firing out ideas like a machine-gun in his nasal North London voice , he had presented himself as a man with his finger on the modem business pulse . |
| 11 | " And directly after this , at the beginning of Chapter 17 , there is another abrupt change of tone : [ 7 ] Captain Cuttle , in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming , with which ( as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity ) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature , had gone to Mr Dombey 's house on the eventful Sunday , winking all the way as a vent for his superfluous sagacity , and had presented himself in the full lustre of the ankle-jacks before the eyes of Towlinson ( I ) . |
| 12 | I 've presented you with a lot of information in this article , so remember to take your time and try to practise every day . |
| 13 | In effect , we have presented you with a prime site , and it 's up to you to decide what you want to do with it . |
| 14 | Henry is , or whether Mrs G. has presented you with a little Tasmanian , or likely to do so , a point upon which her mother is so exceedingly anxious that on finding it was not mentioned she sat down and cried with vexation . ’ |
| 15 | Such a context might have presented itself during the struggle to secure the passage of the Reform Bill . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Everything of importance has always happened to me in the autumn , every new departure has always presented itself within a dying context . |
| 21 | Do n't worry , I sha n't suddenly present you with a bastard grandchild . ’ |
| 22 | Come and see me in the studio any time after that and I 'll present you with a couple of bottles of duty-free in compensation for any hassle . |
| 23 | Or a ready-made team may present itself with a management buy-out , buy-in or acquisition . |
| 24 | This does not matter when Greece can present itself as a lonely outpost of western ideas , defying the barbarians ; then the West rallies round . |
| 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 | If we get it wrong in year two , it will be even more wrong in year three , because the distribution is n't going to alter dramatically in our favour , so if there is under-funding in ninety four , ninety five that we manage , it will present itself as a larger problem in ninety five , six , and an even larger problem in ninety s six , seven , so that needs to be borne in mind . |
| 27 | Very often , puberty for example , that depression will become more enhanced , so it might present itself as a problem that seems to be rising out of puberty , but as time goes on and through school help that does n't seem to be resolving that problem , I think that 's the point at which the specialist within the school , the teacher within the school , must think about , ‘ This does n't seem to be resolving itself . |
| 28 | Not wishing to live in south Durham and commute daily , this had presented something of a problem for him . |
| 29 | Persistent asexual lineages of organisms with large genomes would therefore present something of a paradox , and they do not seem to occur , at least in animals . |
| 30 | The tremendous variety of metal artefacts in use during the Roman Occupation of Britain does present something of a challenge to the detector user in the identification and evaluation of his finds . |