Example sentences of "presents itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | Use a long , thrusting snap punch to the opponent 's face and if the chance presents itself , follow up quickly with a reverse punch . |
| 2 | But to begin with this assumption is to by-pass , rather than explain , the mystery of perception as it presents itself to us if we assume that perception occurs because the perceived object impinges directly or indirectly upon the nervous system . |
| 3 | Sometimes psychoanalysis claims to be a genuinely scientific activity , in contrast to , say , Jungian mystagogy ; at other times , when confronting the proponents of a hard scientific approach to psychology , like behaviourism , psychoanalysis presents itself much more in terms of myth and metaphor and explanatory fictions . |
| 4 | It inevitably presents itself in formalistic terms , and sometimes in overtly aesthetic ones . |
| 5 | Now , though so politically convenient a view is no longer tenable , no easy alternative presents itself . |
| 6 | ‘ Not so , ’ replies the university ; ‘ give if you will ; withhold if you must but understand if you can what nature of community we are and do not deprive us of our freedom , the freedom to pursue , and to teach others to pursue , knowledge for its own sake in whatever guise it presents itself to us ; for that is of our very essence. , |
| 7 | What 's the betting this McCoy 's running a big racket , paying Charlie Hatton to leave his lorry unattended and paying him to keep other lorry drivers occupied whenever the chance presents itself ? |
| 8 | ‘ What infinite variety presents itself in this enchanting spot , ’ wrote Abbot in his diary on first seeing it . |
| 9 | So I said , ‘ Maria , I am experimenting and when I say ‘ experiment ’ I mean I want to see how it presents itself . |
| 10 | The Renault Safrane presents itself as an executive express , so this was an appropriate exercise , involving poorly-surfaced roads in Czechoslovakia , the smooth by-ways of Austria and Switzerland , and Germany 's limit-free autobahns . |
| 11 | Even in the matter of state spending on the arts the same difficulty presents itself . |
| 12 | Flattened Fauna , which has just hit the streets , presents itself as a Field Guide to Common Animals of Roads , Streets and Highways . |
| 13 | In response to the multiplicity of factors affecting their lives , the peasantry have shown that they can act positively , making the most of opportunity when it presents itself . |
| 14 | It is easy but improper to assert , when no other convenient explanation presents itself , that the intentions of the testator are being given full rein . |
| 15 | ( ix ) For a final case of Paul , in which a discussion of secret trusts ends with the word legatum , no obvious explanation presents itself . |
| 16 | It presents itself to the citizen in many different guises : the payment of VAT on a chocolate bar , a rule against parking on a yellow line , a maternity allowance . |
| 17 | If you combine these three facts with another , namely that Dennis 's fortieth birthday had fallen on the previous Thursday , an alternative explanation presents itself . |
| 18 | It must be ten years since I went to the optician and I keep promising myself I will go when the opportunity presents itself , because I love to read . |
| 19 | Appreciation of the ways in which the various shapes are related enables the teacher to ask further leading questions when a suitable opening presents itself in a child 's play ( e.g. commenting on the way the flat slabs will go together to make a staircase of three steps — ‘ What would we need to make the next step ? ’ ) . |
| 20 | We are all in agreement that we will return to Lourdes when the opportunity presents itself , and are very grateful to the parishioners of St Bernadette 's Parish , who donated money to pay for us to go . |
| 21 | I 'll tell her when the opportunity presents itself . |
| 22 | ‘ It is the only thing that presents itself with the information we have at the moment . ’ |
| 23 | But another quite plausible explanation presents itself : here was a lady whose role in life was changing , whose function as a mother and whose status — if we may call it that — as a widow were becoming things of the past . |
| 24 | The first aspect that presents itself is one of sheer hard slog ! |
| 25 | Even when it eschews prescriptivism and presents itself as science , grammar/linguistics remains a branch of patriarchal scholarship which is guilty of perpetuating sexism . |
| 26 | Among the multiple realities there is one that presents itself as the reality par excellence . |
| 27 | An artist , to convey the scene as it presents itself , would have to paint his representation of the grey material , not as he sees it , blue , but as it is , grey . |
| 28 | Very often the ‘ next picture ’ presents itself after a spell of working when I least expect it . |
| 29 | Following mainstream psychology 's prescriptions , it presents itself as committed to good methodology . |
| 30 | Individual desertions are bound to take place , and perhaps in considerable numbers , on the rare occasion where the opportunity presents itself . |