Example sentences of "present [pers pn] to the " in BNC.

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1 But the disparity lies less in tone than in technique : like rather a lot of modern movies , Bye Bye Blues lacks the capacity to formulate its material rather than just present it to the audience and leave them to do the rest .
2 I should be grateful for a prompt reply so that I can present it to the Parish Council at their next meeting on 27th August .
3 We can stage a little comedy for ourselves if we pick out two expressions that I used in my last paragraph , and imagine ourselves presenting them to the startled and unwelcoming gaze of Max Beerbohm .
4 But in some instances research assistants may have been primarily concerned with digging out tables from published sources and presenting them to the writer to work on ; in this case the data are certainly secondary and practically tertiary .
5 Various sorts of logical structure , with branching and loops , will achieve this — in general we see great advantages in presenting them to the user in graphical form .
6 Anyone who had this kind of machine behind them must be important , so it had the effect of presenting him to the public as this bigger than life pop star which , if you look at his record sales at the time , he was n't , but he was becoming a media myth , some of this due to his own talent and some of it due to the MainMan hype machine .
7 Presenting it to the public was like unveiling a finished sculpture .
8 It is not intended to generate a specific code exclusively for each part but to use a code , in conjunction with the defined attributes and physical size of the part , to describe it , presenting it to the designer in a hypothesis-based reference system .
9 On maturity , the holder receives the par value of the bill by presenting it to the Bank of England .
10 Under the terms of the 1939 Law of the Administration of the State , Franco could have promulgated the Law of Succession without previously presenting it to the Cortes .
11 Stonier and Conlin point out that , " A word processor allows the student the opportunity of correcting their own work before presenting it to the teacher as a finished product " .
12 William Charles was then half-way there ; the next stage was to take along a piece of paper certifying this aforesaid freedom , and present it to the Chamberlain 's Office as part of the procedure for achieving full freedom of the City .
13 Gone are the days when a South African lock will rise like a Saturn Five , defying gravity for what seemed like an eternity , to pluck the ball two-handed and present it to the lucky scrum-half .
14 I have decided to realise 20% of that amount or say £120,000 which will purchase £150,000 of the new War Loan , and present it to the Government for cancellation .
15 Well can you sort that out amongst yourself and then after you 've done that then present it to the February sales meeting as to what you 've done so everybody knows
16 After they have sung and danced , the sultan presents them to the amirs and the distinguished foreigners .
17 The final contents of the budget are only revealed to the Cabinet the day before the Chancellor presents it to the House of Commons , when it is too late for any major changes .
18 It is therefore Christ who presents us to the Father , and our salvation derives from him .
19 Around the same time , he took his mother 's many dancing and music medals , together with his father 's accordion , and presented them to the pawnbroker .
20 She paid for the Regiment 's presents each Christmas and presented them to the legionnaires .
21 The second is to present them to the three million visitors each year in ‘ an educative and enjoyable way ’ .
22 They hope to be allowed to present them to the couple today .
23 He also gathered together nearly all the drawings formerly in his father 's collection in order to present them to the public .
24 He made no attempt to present her to the other man , however , apparently so deep in thought that he seemed to have forgotten her very existence .
25 By 1630 he had come to the notice of William Cavendish , Earl ( later Duke ) of Newcastle [ q.v. ] , who presented him to the living of Tormarton , Gloucestershire , and made him his chaplain at Welbeck , Nottinghamshire , where , in collaboration with Newcastle 's brother , the mathematician Sir Charles Cavendish [ q.v. ] , he maintained a correspondence , especially on optics , with mathematicians such as Walter Warner and John Pell [ qq.v. ] , and with Thomas Hobbes [ q.v. ] , whose references to Payne indicate respect for his character and abilities .
26 Perhaps it was then , rather than in 1290 as often supposed , that the priory presented him to the rectory of North Marston ( Buckinghamshire ) , where his cult was to develop , and which he held until his death .
27 The Empress was in great beauty … the Emperor also looked very impressive , and when after the ceremony he held up the child in his arms to present him to the multitude , the enthusiasm was genuine and great .
28 Several years after the Tennant 's moved to Glenconner Farm , Ochiltree , old John Tennant learned that the village crier required a horn to sound before he made his proclamations around the district , so he had a silver mounting and mouthpiece fitted to the bullock 's horn and presented it to the village .
29 Son a Southwark hat manufacturer , Vaughan purchased Constable 's ‘ Haywain ’ from Christie 's in 1866 and presented it to the National Gallery , London that year .
30 Six years before she died she presented it to the Municipality of Antibes ; now pieces she and her husband acquired in the Twenties , particularly from the 1923 sale of the Anthony de Rothschild collection at Aston Clinton , are coming up .
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