Example sentences of "present itself [prep] the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | A remarkably similar dilemma was now presenting itself over the hand-overs of the Yugoslavs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A sport 's first concern , Pascoe says , should be its own development and that means presenting itself in the best possible way . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Among the multiple realities there is one that presents itself as the reality par excellence . |
| 8 | ‘ It is the only thing that presents itself with the information we have at the moment . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Leslie had clearly avoided this mishap , for the face that presented itself at the church to the sound of other bells was unblemished — only so very much older than that of the newly-commissioned boy of the Stirling studio photograph , taken but three years before . |
| 11 | It is hard to be sure about the year the photograph was taken , since the monuments of both Pahlavis were pulled down several times , whenever the occasion presented itself to the people . ’ |
| 12 | Just as there was no unique Greek idea of time , the history of the human race also presented itself to the Greeks in various forms . |
| 13 | As there was no piano in the field , Betty recorded her own music but , on the day , the only power to plug the recording machine into presented itself in the shape of an ice cream van . |
| 14 | With borrowed money he took advantage of an opportunity that presented itself in the 1930s when Oscar Deutch set about forming a third circuit of cinemas — after those of the Rank Organisation and ABC — by buying up the best sites . |
| 15 | Our subsequent contacts with school staff in the city indicated that the legacy was a powerful and often negative one , and that it continued to be reinforced because despite a general loosening of LEA control and a government-sponsored shift to a greater measure of school self-determination , the Authority was perceived by schools as continuing to present itself as the main definer and arbiter of good practice . |
| 16 | Even a sentence like I finished mine tomorrow morning can be contextualised so as to present itself in the guise of a jocular paradox : |