Example sentences of "[noun pl] [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 | The Runefangs were presented to the ruling Emperor who divided them between the Elector counts . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The order in which the techniques were presented to the subjects was varied , in a further attempt to reduce the effect of system unfamiliarity . |
| 5 | Commemorative bronze medallions were presented to the InterSpray crew — 13 who completed the whole round trip and four ‘ one-leggers ’ . |
| 6 | Between 1870 and 1885 , 17,367 petitions against the Acts , with 2,606,429 signatures were presented to the House of Commons , and over 900 public meetings were held by supporters of repeal . |
| 7 | Copies were presented to the hotel which was the squadron Officers ' Mess during the Second World War and to the chairman of the 617 Squadron Association John Langston CBE . |
| 8 | Two proposals were presented to the Congress on Nov. 1 , and the more radical was supported by 618 deputies . |
| 9 | Dissenting Labour councillor Eddie Dryden refused to support the spending cuts and hit out at the way the proposals were presented to the Labour group prior to the meeting . |
| 10 | A BOTTLE of sherry and flowers were presented to the first resident of a new nursing home which opened this week . |
| 11 | While studying the relationship between visual stimuli and the EEG , Adrian found that if a regular series of bright flashes was presented to the subject 's eyes there was an equally regular series of blips in the EEG recorded from electrodes on the scalp over the visual areas at the back of the skull . |
| 12 | A notebook in which Mr Thompson had listed the titles of about 90 pornographic videos was presented to the court . |
| 13 | On 18 December 1912 a reconstruction of these remains was presented to the Geological Society of London by ( Sir ) Arthur Smith Woodward [ q.v. ] , keeper of geology at the Natural History Museum , who was convinced they represented an early human form which he had dubbed Eoanthropus ( ‘ dawn man ’ ) dawsoni . |