Example sentences of "present [pron] [prep] an " 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 | They will present him with an upbeat report claiming significant improvements in performance , with all lines beating Passengers ' Charter standards for timekeeping and reliability . |
| 3 | Now all her hard work has been recognised by West Lothian Arts who have presented her with an Arts Individual Award . |
| 4 | The great bulk of Liberal and Marxist writing about war had presented it as an activity which no radical could support and which all must fight to prevent . |
| 5 | They have presented us with an extraordinary melange of figures which are hugely contradictory . |
| 6 | When delegates from various provincial committees came to St Petersburg for consultations in August 1859 , Nikolai Miliutin cut the ground from under their feet by presenting them with an outline of the Commission 's views which went far beyond what they had in mind . |
| 7 | The danger of approaching whole group work by letting children first improvise in small groups and then presenting them with an issue which you hope will give them a focus is that they remain more interested in what 's going on in their group than in the supposedly unifying issue : " Why should I be interested in the corner shop being knocked down when I never use it , and anyway we 've just been burgled ? ! " |
| 8 | Some of the prescribed topics may not at first seem particularly appealing , especially if they have not been covered in school before , but avenues can be explored for presenting them in an interesting way . |
| 9 | The moustached man opens his palm , presenting me with an old square of foil , streaked with dry runs of smack . |
| 10 | Yes , in his own quiet way Summerchild is presenting himself to an audience . |
| 11 | One is sometimes left with the feeling that he is presenting one with an interpretation cast in stone , with all unwelcome impurities filtered away — the ‘ perfect ’ solution , if you like . |
| 12 | Now Amsterdam seem to be willing to take him on despite the scandal , and are presenting him as an exciting and controversial figure , while many of his former colleagues in The Hague admire him , as do the public ; he is seen as decisive , inspiring and provocative . |
| 13 | But was that really her fault — or was I presenting her with an impossible task ? |
| 14 | Marx 's own celebration of capitalism is an ironic one , demonstrating its historical necessity , but always presenting it as an instrument of a doomed social formation permeated by the image of proletarian suffering . |
| 15 | This debate has centred on the two views of bureaucracy found in the writings of Marx himself , one presenting it as an instrument by which the dominant class protects its interests , the other as an instrument of power through which the state is able to rise above and regulate class conflict with a measure of autonomy from the dominant class . |
| 16 | Two parties presenting themselves as an alliance will , it is true , fare better than if they campaign separately . |
| 17 | The cross does not affect God because he has always been loving and desiring our repentance ; it affects us by presenting us with an example of love and sacrifice which overwhelms us because of its outrageous generosity . |
| 18 | It serves as a dual purpose : it performs a musicological service by presenting us with an intelligently planned selection of the kind of harpsichord music current in the Germany in which the young Bach grew up , and it also lets us hear several composers of outstanding merit in their own right . |
| 19 | The intention therefore is significantly different although both are concerned with presenting oneself as an object of others ' attention and finding a public language to do so . |
| 20 | Twelve months earlier , when Paris had been liberated , communist members of the Resistance in France had wanted to strike before the French army and de Gaulle arrived and thus present them with an accomplished fact . |
| 21 | To bring about greater stylistic variation and interest , the extract could be rewritten , by combining sentences ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , and sentences ( 3 ) and ( 4 ) : As a way of reflecting the development of their heroines , both Brontë and Hardy present them within an organic structure . |
| 22 | People living under oppression can not go to the British embassy and seek an entry clearance document , present it to an airline office , take a plane to this country and then seek political asylum . |
| 23 | This happens most often when massive shoals of fry from that year 's spawning present themselves as an easy meal to a shoal of bream . |
| 24 | Various possibilities present themselves to an active lad . |
| 25 | The ‘ space ’ of modern astronomy may arouse terror , or bewilderment or vague reverie ; the spheres of the old writers present us with an object in which the mind can rest , overwhelming in its greatness but satisfying in its harmony . |
| 26 | Their grandfather Traveller Ward ( David Kelly ) delights in telling the wide-eyed duo gypsy tales and one day presents them with an untamed white horse , which captures their imagination . |
| 27 | He presents himself as an individualist , who only later and almost reluctantly becomes aware of the wider aspects of the war as a battle for civilization and humanity . |
| 28 | The Renault Safrane presents itself as an executive express , so this was an appropriate exercise , involving poorly-surfaced roads in Czechoslovakia , the smooth by-ways of Austria and Switzerland , and Germany 's limit-free autobahns . |
| 29 | The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails presents itself as an ‘ immense accumulation of commodities ’ . |
| 30 | In her self-portrait at the Tate Gallery ( c.1930 ) she presents herself as an artist at work with the canvas just perceivable to the right and a brush in hand . |