Example sentences of "present we [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , it follows at once that they do not strictly present us with a distinct adjective position , but just a special case of the predicative adjective already discussed in Chapter 3 . |
| 2 | A is indeed more precise , but only in a trivial sense , for in B does present us with the same referent as in A. If , on the other hand , the lines changed places , so that we read : |
| 3 | In fact , I would have hoped that an European interpretation might have presented us with a radically different perspective , something to argue about . |
| 4 | They have presented us with an extraordinary melange of figures which are hugely contradictory . |
| 5 | The C E C have had twelve months , the sections have been up and running , they should have learnt from the experiences over the last twelve months because all that they 've done is presented us with the same document with the exclusion of the one issue of the two year conference . |
| 6 | Our client should be presenting us with a sheaf of paper with pink ribbon round it , saying , we would like a tender on that , fixed fee , by two weeks on Tuesday , or whatever . |
| 7 | We are very grateful for Dr Carey Griffiths and Vic Smith for stepping into the breach and presenting us with a two-part programme . |
| 8 | By presenting us with the most degenerate images they could find , those campaigns made us feel comfortingly distant from it all . |
| 9 | He goes on to say ‘ In presenting us with the award for Lafayette , the judges believe that the new range has outstanding sales potential . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Gospels present us with a picture of Jesus of Nazareth searching out those left on the edge , and bringing them into the heart of God 's kingdom . |
| 13 | He added his own comments that Ashby 's tributes to voluntaryism present us with a very serious challenge — to the professional to be patient in service , to aid and abet but not to take over from the voluntary worker any of the tasks or decisions which he should do and make : to the voluntary worker to recognise that the only sure safeguard against injury to the mainstream of voluntaryism is that that mainstream , which is himself , shall never slacken . |
| 14 | Such bodies present us with a dilemma . |
| 15 | Even the classical certainties of laboratory apparatus present us with a mystery when we recognise that we do not fully comprehend how they arise from the quantum substrate of which they are composed . |
| 16 | Paul 's words and Paul 's example present us with a picture of a God who is the source of peace , and of a man who had learnt that God 's peace was on tap at all times . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The expression I is not of course the only such troublesome feature of English ; the following examples all present us with the same sort of problems ( with the relevant deictic expression italicized , a convention followed throughout this Chapter ) : ( 6 ) You are the mother of Napoleon ( 7 ) This is an eighteenth-century man-trap ( 8 ) Mary is in love with that fellow over there ( 9 ) It is now 12.15 The sentences are true , respectively , just in case the addressee is indeed the mother of Napoleon , the object currently being indicated by the speaker is indeed an eighteenth-century man-trap , Mary is indeed in love with the fellow in the location indicated by the speaker , and at the time of speaking it is indeed 12.15 . |
| 19 | She presents us with a glistening floor bordered by a number of bells hanging from long ropes , each lit from above to produce its own pool of light . |
| 20 | He also presents us with a fairly strict unilineal theory of evolution , ( if we forget about the difference between the New and the Old Worlds ) . |
| 21 | The reason why I have detained readers of New Scientist with such minutiae is that the ‘ Mink on Shetland ’ presents us with a case study of the way in which decisions affecting the wildlife of Britain are being left to the ephemeral whims of local personages . |
| 22 | A particularly welcome aspect of the present disc is that Sarah Cunningham presents us with a survey spanning the entire period of the repertoire — as such it will perhaps be more welcome to the non-specialist than the Savall discs . |
| 23 | We have a narrator who presents us with a plan of his house , obsessively describes the objects therein and the way his wife , always referred to as A … , moves about the rooms and onto the veranda . |
| 24 | Scotland international coach Roxburgh admitted : ‘ The loss of Richard presents us with a real problem . |
| 25 | This approach presents us with a particular problem since we must ensure that the representative chosen provides us with a good insight into that political theory . |
| 26 | In fact , the whole prime ministerial government thesis presents us with a singularly " flat " view of power that is only attentive to action on the surface . |
| 27 | Admittedly , ethnography presents us with a few ( but very few ) examples of value systems in which inequality of status is viewed as a moral evil ; but these cases are so exceptional that they probably always represent transient states of society . |
| 28 | 1993 presents us with a new challenge in the form of charges for admission to non-members and some other services . |
| 29 | ‘ The Celebes presents us with the most striking example of the interest that attaches to the study of the geographical distribution of animals . |
| 30 | For Mr Till presents us with an intellectual Mozart , linking him with Rousseau and Voltaire , Goethe and Schiller . |