Example sentences of "were presented with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The workers decided to push ahead despite the reservations of West , Paisley and others and the politicians were presented with a fait accompli . |
| 2 | When the Drama sub-committees of the Schools Council English Panel were presented with a proposition from Lynn McGregor , a London teacher with a strong interest in the sociology of education and her own research into Drama teaching on its way ( 1976 ) , to launch a full-scale research project , the climate seemed ripe for the subcommittee to make a recommendation . |
| 3 | During the evening , which also included a fashion show by Splashout , of the High Street , the organisers Alton Lions were presented with a £1,100 cheque by Ray Simmonds of Bass Brewing as the company 's sponsorship for this year 's carnival . |
| 4 | Canon John and the capacity audience of well-wishers were presented with a wealth of talent and a variety of music . |
| 5 | To mark the occasion pupils were presented with a commemorative book mark , and the school hall was decorated with pictures celebrating the anniversary . |
| 6 | A standard method of collecting image data was used : i.e. respondents were presented with a card listing 20 towns and cities which they then scored as interviewers read out 12 pairs of statements , each representing the positive and negative sides of an image dimension . |
| 7 | There were instances where some results were presented with a gloss they did not merit , and worse . |
| 8 | After 34 minutes , Dulwich were presented with a third goal . |
| 9 | Alongside the Vauxhall car won by Drake for a year , and the £400 team manager 's prize collected by Graham Howell , Royal Berkshire were presented with a magnificent Vauxhall Indoor Trophy and a cheque for £2,500 . |
| 10 | Long before the Harrier , the RAF were presented with a proposal to minimise dependence on vulnerable airfields . |
| 11 | Ministers were presented with a new report on unemployment prepared by the OECD secretariat , which repeated its pet theme that the key to reducing unemployment is to make labour markets work better , through measures such as better training and mobility . |
| 12 | In the first place they were presented with a riveting demonstration of what a genuinely free press is capable of . |
| 13 | Professor Fletcher and his family were presented with a video recorder as a gift from his many friends in the health campaigning world . |
| 14 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 15 | Children who were presented with a nonsense syllable alongside more and less in a variety of contexts made it contrast with more and less by adding or subtracting much smaller amounts ; by adding or subtracting everything ; by introducing some quite different manipulation ( stirring , flicking , rolling , tossing up and down , mixing both piles together ) , and so on . |
| 16 | If cloze is a sensitive measure of this aspect of comprehension , we would expect readers to do very poorly if they were presented with a cloze test on a passage in which all the sentences had been mixed up . |
| 17 | In the APU test pupils were presented with a perspex box and a wooden cube and asked to estimate how many cubes would fill the box . |
| 18 | Here they were presented with a new interpretation of world events from the Kremlin which saw the world as divided into ‘ two camps ’ and called on Communists everywhere to resist US ‘ imperialism ’ . |
| 19 | The Dutch complained that they had strengthened the hands of the Indonesians : they were presented with a bill by the Dutch for the use of barracks , railroads , and other facilities during their occupation ( which was not paid ) . |
| 20 | Subjects were presented with a computer controlled tone in one ear and had to match this tone through movements of the tongue which were transduced so as to produce a sound which was relayed to the other ear . |
| 21 | The prize winners from the Lillywhites ski evening held for Ski Club of Great Britain members on 14 November , were presented with a two week skiing holiday in California plus £500 spending money from Virgin Holidays . |
| 22 | Others were presented with a picture depicting the strange juxtaposition of events in the passage before hearing the passage , while others were presented with the picture after hearing the passage . |
| 23 | GRAHAM Ramsay , Dave Mulholland , Barbara Collier and Mike Banks were presented with a shield after winning Operations Support 's first annual quiz night . |
| 24 | Holborn picked up the 1992 Best Overall Branch prize , Threadneedle Street were presented with a plaque for being top Branch in the Customer Satisfaction Index for 1992–93 , and Pall Mall received the Cost/Income Award for 1991–92/ The top student award went to Julian Gouge who , in 1992 , achieved the highest aggregate marks among all Royal Bank candidates in the Associateship examinations . |
| 25 | They were presented with a case of wine by David Street , Manager , Private Trust and Taxation . |
| 26 | Newlyweds whose wedding present list notched up more that £600 in sales of Wedgwood tableware were presented with a pair of free air tickets to Paris . |
| 27 | Together with the winner , finalists were presented with a signed certificate by Prince Philip on 8th July . |
| 28 | The usurpation of 1483 happened so quickly that many of the duchy servants were presented with a fait accompli , whereupon as usual they backed the crown ( which now happened to be worn by their erstwhile chief steward ) . |
| 29 | I therefore went into a meeting at in December and er we were presented with a report , we did n't receive it before the meeting , it was taken at the meeting and we said that we would n't discuss it if it related to night flights and again I wrote immediately back to the department of transport and I suggested that they should erm spend the report which I refer to , monthly figures of night flights so that the night flights could be monitored . |
| 30 | Coleraine started brightly with Cook and Brian Donaghy both going close in the opening three minutes , but the Crues settled quickly and were presented with a golden opportunity to go ahead in the 12th minute . |