Example sentences of "present itself [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a context might have presented itself during the struggle to secure the passage of the Reform Bill . |
| 2 | The first indeed had presented itself as no more than vivid memory , though — if she were honest with herself — she would admit it had arisen from a kind of fear . |
| 3 | By 1902 Hardy was working on a project which owed its inspiration to boyhood memories of local stories and traditions of Napoleonic times , but had first presented itself as a literary theme in about 1875 . |
| 4 | St William 's has presented itself as a prime mover and so it falls to St William 's to work out how to express itself as a managing agent . |
| 5 | There are many teachers who feel that things are that bad , and for whom , at some tacit level of decision-making , becoming ‘ like that ’ has presented itself as the only sensible , or the only possible modus operandi that is left . |
| 6 | Everything of importance has always happened to me in the autumn , every new departure has always presented itself within a dying context . |
| 7 | Or a ready-made team may present itself with a management buy-out , buy-in or acquisition . |
| 8 | This does not matter when Greece can present itself as a lonely outpost of western ideas , defying the barbarians ; then the West rallies round . |
| 9 | For example , one article , entitled ‘ Strategy — the way forward ’ , discussed whether the party should have a secret/clandestine leadership , which would be a ‘ revolutionary elite cadre ’ , or whether , as Vanguard advocated , the National Front should present itself as a ‘ democratic , electoral/community party ’ ( January 1987 ) . |
| 10 | If we get it wrong in year two , it will be even more wrong in year three , because the distribution is n't going to alter dramatically in our favour , so if there is under-funding in ninety four , ninety five that we manage , it will present itself as a larger problem in ninety five , six , and an even larger problem in ninety s six , seven , so that needs to be borne in mind . |
| 11 | Very often , puberty for example , that depression will become more enhanced , so it might present itself as a problem that seems to be rising out of puberty , but as time goes on and through school help that does n't seem to be resolving that problem , I think that 's the point at which the specialist within the school , the teacher within the school , must think about , ‘ This does n't seem to be resolving itself . |
| 12 | A remarkably similar dilemma was now presenting itself over the hand-overs of the Yugoslavs . |
| 13 | There was a strange picture in one of the bedrooms of a centaur-like creature , a horse with the torso and head of a man , presenting itself at a forge to be shod , where it was eyed with fearful fascination by the smith and a crowd of onlookers . |
| 14 | In bringing the case , the Turkish government is presenting itself as a great ally of archaeologists . |
| 15 | Once again the novel repeatedly turns inwards to examine its own nature , presenting itself as a kind of palimpsest . |
| 16 | Unless it does so , however , it is inevitable that , in presenting itself as a general theory of conduct , psychology will come to embody a certain idea of man . |
| 17 | Golkar , presenting itself as the guarantor of stability and economic growth , was backed by the country 's 4,000,000 civil servants and by the business community , and also polled strongly in rural areas , especially in those regions which had benefited from government development programmes . |
| 18 | A sport 's first concern , Pascoe says , should be its own development and that means presenting itself in the best possible way . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Flattened Fauna , which has just hit the streets , presents itself as a Field Guide to Common Animals of Roads , Streets and Highways . |
| 21 | Seen from the ‘ inside ’ of an already symbolic universe , ‘ deviance ’ presents itself as a property inhering in the acts so characterised . |
| 22 | Brooke-Rose 's novel implicitly presents itself as a ‘ pseudo ’ or partial version of the ‘ reality ’ beyond . |
| 23 | The Second Book of Maccabees presents itself as a summary of a work in five books composed by Jason of Cyrene , otherwise unknown ( 2.19–28 ) . |
| 24 | Among the multiple realities there is one that presents itself as the reality par excellence . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails presents itself as an ‘ immense accumulation of commodities ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ It is the only thing that presents itself with the information we have at the moment . ’ |
| 28 | Very often the ‘ next picture ’ presents itself after a spell of working when I least expect it . |
| 29 | 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 ? ’ ) . |
| 30 | The main thesis of the existentialist approach is that in order to elucidate the full significance of ontological claims conveyed by existential propositions we ought to begin by focusing attention upon the one for whom the " problem of existence " presents itself in the first instance as a problem of his own existence . |