Example sentences of "presented [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is not simply the extremity of the violence which concerns us : we found it extremely disturbing that highly explicit depictions of mutilation , savagery , menace and humiliation should be presented for the entertainment of an audience in a way that appeared to emphasise the pleasures of sadism .
2 Those theses with related papers being published several years before submission were presented for the degree of D Sc , which , as previously described , is granted on the basis of a scientist 's record of published work in a subject field .
3 Those theses with related papers being published several years before submission were presented for the degree of D Sc , which , as previously described , is granted on the basis of a scientist 's record of published work in a subject field .
4 It is a recognition that a scientist has attained eminence within his or her research area , without necessarily undertaking formal supervised university research , and the thesis presented for the award of this degree generally consists of a review of the author 's research , together with a collection of published papers .
5 The shirts were presented for the occasion by Buchan — and they were to be Arsenal 's downfall .
6 It is the subjective consciousness of the individual learner which perceives and construes the world , and this includes all those parts of the world which are presented for the learner to experience through the curriculum .
7 Despite these reservations , four tables based on Yugoslav official statistics of foreign trade and payments are presented for the reader 's consideration .
8 The statistics might be more easily presented , instead of small numbers being presented for the reader should he care , which is roughly what we would do .
9 Additionally , a more complete picture of the settlement at Cosmeston is accessible to the public by virtue of the way the excavations have been interpreted and presented for the visitor : the ultimate goal is nothing less than a full-scale , working reconstruction of the medieval village .
10 Spenser 's Irenius is presented as the voice of experience , the man who has front-line knowledge of the Irish and who , as the dialogue tries to show , has a firm grasp of the Irish situation past and present .
11 Lawrence also celebrates the ‘ other ’ , but often as a foil for the integrity of self ; affirmation of one 's own pure self is presented as the precondition for recognizing the other .
12 19 ) ; while Athens herself , with her five-figure total of metics , is audaciously presented as the smithy of Hephaistos .
13 Therefore ‘ easing ’ , which is normally presented as the opposite to work , can for the neighbourhood men ( and also the community relations police ) be construed as official police work , and quite often much of the best community work is done by neighbourhood men when they seem to be relaxing .
14 From the industry 's earliest days , blacks in American films were routinely typecast as servants , childlike entertainers or sexual aggressors ; in D.W. Griffith 's silent classic , ‘ Birth of a Nation ’ , the Ku Klux Klan was presented as the saviour of the postbellum South .
15 The incentive and justification for all such activity is the goal of ‘ independence ’ ; independence which is presented as the state to which we all aspire .
16 Yet the aporia reached between " at least two mutually exclusive readings " which " asserts the impossibility of a true understanding , on the level of the figuration as well as of the themes " is presented as the text 's self-deconstruction .
17 And the problem of other minds ( ch. 5 ) can be presented as the problem of how , if at all , my observation of the behaviour of human bodies justifies my belief that those bodies are people ; little extra is gained by asking whether and how I know that they are people .
18 Female nurturing is presented as the solution to male violence — as though women have n't been doing that for centuries .
19 So , when there are riots and problems in prisons , we have to have a speedy and instantaneous responses from the Home Secretary , which is presented as the solution to the problem .
20 Enterprise democracy , that is , was presented as the complement to social planning of investment at a national or even supra-national level .
21 Figure 1 shows distribution of [ I ] bFGF between the ulcer area and adjacent intact mucosa presented as the radioactivity ratio ( ulcer area v intact mucosa ) .
22 In the enthusiasm of the renewed emphasis on the Spirit these days he is some times presented as the pathway to power in the Christian life , the secret of success in personal living and in service .
23 What matters is the effect of basic instinct which Eliot had earlier presented as the result of actual murder in a simpler urban context when he described in ‘ Eeldrop and Appleplex ’ the living death experienced by a man who has murdered his mistress .
24 Marcellus is presented as the model of the old Roman , and his philhellenism is mentioned only as a political attitude ( fr. 43 Jacoby ) .
25 Moncef Triki was tried on 1 August 1991 for membership of al-Nahda ( Renaissance ) , an illegal Islamic organisation , and for holding an unauthorised meeting , although no evidence of any such meeting was presented during the court hearing .
26 In addition , Mr Justice McKinnon 's decision to narrow the indictment to the ‘ late take-up ’ issue effectively disregarded 75% of the evidence presented during the trial .
27 Rejecting defence arguments that Noriega was a prisoner of war — he had been captured as a result of the December 1989 US invasion of Panama [ see pp. 37112-13 ] — US District Judge William M. Hoeveler stated that the sentence was reflective only of the evidence presented during the trial and not of the wider aspects of the case .
28 Both are awarded Honorary Doctor of Letters degrees , which are to be presented during the university 's awards ceremonies this summer .
29 The 1992 Cheshire Tourism Awards will also be presented during the event .
30 Other supplementary estimates are presented during the course of the year , as extra funds are needed .
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