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

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1 Nonetheless , George Albert Smith 's name stands as the inventor of a colour process which was viable , which was shown worldwide , and which presented for the first time on the screen a photographically produced colour picture .
2 The Festival 's series of Writers Talks is in 1991 presented with the support of The Guardian .
3 But presented with the royal ultimatum to spend the festive season in the bosom of a family with which she is at war , Diana made her heartbreak decision .
4 He recalled his last visit to the Company 's Great Cornard factory two years ago when he presented with the Queen 's Award for Export .
5 A note to William Watson suggests that there might be a case of mistaken identity in an abstract he presented from the Flora Sibirica on Sphondylium vulgare hirsutum [ i.e. Heracleum sphondylium ] .
6 The particular case of greatest interest to Revusky is that of conditioning with some interfering event ( X ) presented in the interval between CS and US .
7 Unable to offer Rossini a bicentenary gift of Il viaggio a Reims ( Ferrara finally inherited that project ) the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées presented in the space of a week a display of Rossini singing that barely scratched the surface .
8 And if we took the attendance report first , in relation to that then we can look at the material presented in the way to which you 're accustomed .
9 Stereoscopic depth perception was studied by Durnford and Kimura ( 1971 ) by asking subjects to judge whether two rods , one presented at the point of fixation and one presented in the left or right visual field , were horizontally aligned .
10 Moreover it is unlikely that respondents would have either the time or experience to make a thorough appraisal of the information presented in the leaflet .
11 Scrap the monarchy , abolish the House of Lords and get a written constitution — a few of the proposals in the Commonwealth of Britain Bill presented to the Commons by Tony Benn , a Labour MP .
12 An unusual photograph of Joseph presented to the U.S. National Assembly by General Miles .
13 Indeed , the mechanical clocks which they presented to the Chinese rulers were received with surprised delight .
14 George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’
15 Granville Penn presented to the College 44 publications on the veterinary art and science .
16 Taking his troubles to his doctor , he was given a long prescription , which he presented to the chemist without first reading it .
17 Locke presented to the gullible public lunar vegetation , birds and fantastic animals , such as two-legged beavers that used fire and lived in huts .
18 The regional paper for West Asia presented to the UN Conference on Science and Technology for Development ( UNCSTD ) , held in Vienna in August 1979 said : ‘ Though there exists a rich heritage in design and construction from Hadhramaut to Nubia , there is very little concern for these technologies … these beautiful structures decorate travel literature . ’
19 He had sometimes wondered , although with little real curiosity , whether she might not be less compliant , more complicated than he had supposed , had occasionally had a disconcerting sense that the façade she presented to the power station of dedicated , humourless efficiency had been carefully constructed to conceal a less accommodating , more complex personality .
20 This hall was built in 1861 by the Loyal Order of Ancient Shepherds , a Friendly Society , but presented to the village in 1946 .
21 She was also discovering that there was more to Sean O'Farrell than the frivolous charm which he presented to the world .
22 Indeed in 1984 he presented to the president a pipe-march he had composed with the ringing title of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland .
23 The wording of the PW report to the Guinness directors is , as might be expected , almost identical with the one presented to the GRE directors .
24 He showed me the grass on which Tu'i Mala was wont to graze — Tu'i Mala being a blind Galapagos tortoise which Captain Cook presented to the Tongans in 1777 , and which died in 1966 at well over two hundred years old .
25 The fourteen works of art illustrated in the report , include the Chatsworth impression of Rembrandt 's ‘ Christ presented to the People ’ ( ii/viii ) , a Greek , late Hellenistic silver-gilt bowl , a Roman silver-inlaid bronze of the bull-god Apis , sold to the Virginia Museum , and a Roman portrait bust of Marcus Aurelius , bought by the North Carolina Museum of Art .
26 Corbridge Lanx presented to the British Museum
27 Alternatively , an unwilling respondent may claim that the dispute is wider than that presented to the forum , in that third parties are involved , and that the claim should not be considered in their absence .
28 Hoe Hickmott of the TTF presented to the cheque to James Gibson to assist in his technical research project ( left ) .
29 At the banquet and on behalf of the Company , Sir Crisp presented to the School a silver cup and cover " as a memento of this great occasion and an emblem of good luck in the future " .
30 Her subsequent unhappy reaction caused him to regret that he had inadvertently damaged her self-esteem by destroying part of her image of self which she presented to the world .
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