Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] present to the " in BNC.

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1 The brief period of time in which the words were presented to the subject in our experiment , however , limited the kinds of words that could be used as stimuli .
2 It was here that the kings of Hungary were presented to the people .
3 The programme , which Gorbachev was to present to the G-7 summit in London , was said to combine elements of the rival plans widely canvassed in June [ see p. 38272 ] , i.e. the official " anti-crisis " programme of Prime Minister Pavlov , and the radical " grand bargain " proposals of economist Grigory Yavlinsky .
4 The aircraft was presented to the Museum on extended loan and became part of NAM 's ‘ Meteor comer ’ along with RB.108 test-bed FR.9 VZ608 , T.7 VZ634 , NF.12 WS692 and NF.14 WS739 .
5 The photograph was presented to the Royal Bank 's archives by Don Byford , formerly of Glyn 's Registrars Department in Lombard Street .
6 The programme was presented to the Heads of Government at a summit meeting in Milan in June 1985 and eventually the Single European Act came into force in July 1987 .
7 The results of the officer-led exercise were presented to the Labour group .
8 The Runefangs were presented to the ruling Emperor who divided them between the Elector counts .
9 An ultimatum was presented to the president to appoint Tan Malaka head of the government with Sudirman in total control of the armed forces .
10 I do not know who told her that the doctors had refused to meet her and I heard nothing from her until after a first meeting when what came to be known as the Goodman Plan was presented to the government and the doctors had convened at Downing Street .
11 Only trials where the digit was correctly reported were used in analysis , to ensure that the stimulus was presented to the appropriate hemisphere .
12 The draft of the new constitution outlining the presidential and multiparty system agreed at the February 1990 conference on reform was presented to the High Council of the Republic on April 12 , 1990 , and its contents announced on May 15 , prior to a referendum in late 1990 .
13 IN FEBRUARY and LCCI Certificate of Centre Registration was presented to the newly registered London School of Public Relations ( LSPR ) in Jakarta by Marketing Manager of the LCCIEB .
14 The DUP 's view of the Ulster crisis , its solution , and the Assembly were presented to the Ulster electorate :
15 Until 22 December 1989 , the General-Secretary and his wife were presented to the Romanian people ( despite Elena 's highly visible furs and cashmere clothing ) as a hard-working , abstemious couple with only one thought — the well-being of ‘ The People ’ .
16 There was a celebrated individual who devoted a large part of his life to carefully recording everything that he observed ; upon his death , this complete set of observations was presented to the Royal Society in the hope that it would be of use to scientists .
17 It was only in the continuing silence that it came to her that her defenceless back was presented to the rest of the room .
18 The order in which the techniques were presented to the subjects was varied , in a further attempt to reduce the effect of system unfamiliarity .
19 On Feb. 26 the policy was presented to the Sejm ( lower chamber ) , which referred it for a report by its economic , finance and budgetary committee .
20 His collection was presented to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington , DC , and the reptiles in it were named by Professor Edward Cope of Philadelphia , who gave the lizard the specific name oculatus because of the black-edged white spots on its brown body , which resemble eyes .
21 The collection was presented to the pounding beat of aggressive rock music .
22 The communal plate of silver gilt was presented to the church by Thomas Lamplugh in 1689 .
23 Once the scientists were sure sucralose was safe , a petition to allow its commercial use was presented to the US Food and Drug Administration in 1987 .
24 In February 1987 a mass petition was presented to the Queen asking that a referendum be held in Northern Ireland to determine whether the agreement should continue .
25 Langbaurgh MP Ashok Kumar said more East Cleveland people would be asked to sign before the petition was presented to the House of Commons .
26 The chain was presented to the current chairman , Colin Chapman , by one of the guests of honour , Trevor McCombie , at a dinner held at the University of Bristol .
27 The draft of a new constitution was presented to the Assembly on April 25 .
28 Commemorative bronze medallions were presented to the InterSpray crew — 13 who completed the whole round trip and four ‘ one-leggers ’ .
29 Mrs. Maria Fyfe ( Glasgow , Maryhill ) : When this legislation was presented to the Chamber some weeks ago , I inquired of the Secretary of State for Scotland when he last attempted to board a bus whilst trying to fold a pushchair , with an infant in one arm and a toddler held by the other hand .
30 On April 15 , 1990 , legislation was presented to the Sejm for the widespread privatization of the economy .
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