Example sentences of "present [pron] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This does not matter when Greece can present itself as a lonely outpost of western ideas , defying the barbarians ; then the West rallies round . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The mood has been very different from Labour 's controlled and skilfully-packaged press conferences , where Mr Kinnock and his shadow Cabinet colleagues have presented themselves as a government-in-waiting . |
| 13 | It depends on matters such as physical attributes and abilities of individuals , their monetary resources , the availability of mechanized means of transport and the appropriate infrastructure ; but it does not depend on the opportunities that may or may not present themselves as a result of moving : accessibility alone incorporates this feature ( Moseley 1979a ) . |
| 14 | At the heart of the problem is the fact that the Government is selling off 10 different companies but presenting them as a single package . |
| 15 | As a reform candidate Reagan had made clear his low view of legislators , presenting them as the tools of special interests , primarily concerned with feathering their own nests . |
| 16 | The one certainty is that he has consistently sought to secure his own position , mostly by presenting himself as a sensible centrist between the extremes to his right and left . |
| 17 | He was now presenting himself as a cynical hard-nosed East End wheeler-dealer . |
| 18 | What the , President and colleagues as well as presenting himself as a great European leader , a demand which is not seen as be particularly , although at the moment , John Major and his government have sought to present themselves as green . |
| 19 | The PSI leader Bettino Craxi , whose reputation had suffered indirectly from corruption scandals in Milan [ see p. 38896 ] , had announced on June 17 that he was no longer presenting himself as a candidate for Prime Minister , but had given President Oscar Scalfaro a list of three PSI candidates — Amato , outgoing Foreign Minister Gianni De Michelis , and outgoing Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Minister Claudio Martelli . |
| 20 | He spent a good deal of time in his satires , presenting himself as a satirist — unplaced , unpensioned , no man 's heir or slave he proudly describes himself as he tells us that he 's willing to lash out at even the most eminent public figures . |
| 21 | He 's arranging a Greek tour presenting himself as the world 's only singing , dancing , somersaulting potentate . |
| 22 | This is expected to be particularly revealing as Mr Camber , a curator at the British Museum before he went to work for Sotheby 's , heard about the hoard from an ex-colleague and became involved in negotiations over it in Switzerland some time before Lord Northampton , presenting himself as the single owner of the treasure , first approached Sotheby 's in 1988 with a view to selling . |
| 23 | Mr Kinnock presenting himself as the country 's next Prime Minister , won a standing ovation at his Party Conference at Blackpool . |
| 24 | Neil Kinnock has won a standing ovation from the Labour Party faithful at their conference in Blackpool , by presenting himself as the next Prime Minister . |
| 25 | In bringing the case , the Turkish government is presenting itself as a great ally of archaeologists . |
| 26 | Once again the novel repeatedly turns inwards to examine its own nature , presenting itself as a kind of palimpsest . |
| 27 | Unless it does so , however , it is inevitable that , in presenting itself as a general theory of conduct , psychology will come to embody a certain idea of man . |
| 28 | Golkar , presenting itself as the guarantor of stability and economic growth , was backed by the country 's 4,000,000 civil servants and by the business community , and also polled strongly in rural areas , especially in those regions which had benefited from government development programmes . |
| 29 | But it was the unanimous view of the board that it manifested contempt towards the divinity of Christ by presenting him as a living man , not a symbol , and as the object of overt sexual passion . |
| 30 | They introduced Mr Parretti to CLBN in 1987 , presenting him as a potential investor in their company . |