Example sentences of "[was/were] presented to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both were presented to the Princess at the naming ceremony of 706 on June 6th 1985 . |
| 2 | The proposals were reported to have been agreed upon by the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Front ( EPRDF ) and the Oromo Liberation Front ( OLF ) on Oct. 19 and were presented to the Council of Representatives on Nov. 18 . |
| 3 | The distressing story of Miss X is contained among more mundane reports on council house allocations , lets and demolitions which were presented to the subcommittee . |
| 4 | Court dress was the particular form of costume worn by ladies when they were presented to the monarch . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was not until the following Monday that the affidavits on which Julia had worked so hard and for so long were presented to the court . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | As part of an arrangement with the CICA , winning and other selected entries from the 1992 CICA CAD Drawing Award were presented to the Collection . |
| 10 | Debbie Avis and a representative from the Amro Bank attended a lavish function at the Guildhall and were presented to the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress . |
| 11 | Two proposals were presented to the Congress on Nov. 1 , and the more radical was supported by 618 deputies . |
| 12 | On March 19th a long-awaited report on reforms to the domestic-equity market was presented to the exchange council by a committee chaired by Mr Nigel Elwes of S.G. Warburg . |
| 13 | The goblet was of unknown material , unusual colour and of unfamiliar shape : it was presented to the King . |
| 14 | These were a new form of packaging involving a collapsible polyester tube , coated to withstand carbonation , which was presented to the customer in a cardboard sleeve . |
| 15 | The aircraft was presented to the Museum on extended loan and became part of NAM 's ‘ Meteor comer ’ along with RB.108 test-bed FR.9 VZ608 , T.7 VZ634 , NF.12 WS692 and NF.14 WS739 . |
| 16 | In 1976 the pathetic remains of this once splendid vehicle — a single heat-warped axle — was presented to the Museum at Malmaison . |
| 17 | When he was presented to the church of Northampton , Robert Grosseteste , the saintly Bishop of Lincoln , refused to admit him . |
| 18 | The communal plate of silver gilt was presented to the church by Thomas Lamplugh in 1689 . |
| 19 | Mrs. Maria Fyfe ( Glasgow , Maryhill ) : When this legislation was presented to the Chamber some weeks ago , I inquired of the Secretary of State for Scotland when he last attempted to board a bus whilst trying to fold a pushchair , with an infant in one arm and a toddler held by the other hand . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This resolution , together with a petition signed by more than four thousand members , was presented to the Ministry of Education , where the deputation was received " most courteously " and " much useful discussion ensued . " |
| 22 | It was only in the continuing silence that it came to her that her defenceless back was presented to the rest of the room . |
| 23 | In February 1987 a mass petition was presented to the Queen asking that a referendum be held in Northern Ireland to determine whether the agreement should continue . |
| 24 | To commemorate the visit , the Prime Warden the next year , Mr. John Prideaux ( whose father had been Clerk at the time of the 450th Anniversary ) , called at the School in April with designs of a second cup and cover , which was commissioned by the Company from Miss Jocelyn Burton and was presented to the Chairman and Headmaster in July 1974 . |
| 25 | They also attended a meeting of the recently launched HCIMNA Switzerland chapter at the Hyatt International Hotel , Montreux , where a chapter Foundation Certificate was presented to the Chairman . |
| 26 | He was presented to the Headmaster in his sleeveless jacket , ragged trousers and covered from head to foot in dirt . |
| 27 | This dates from 1729 and was presented to the cathedral by Pope Benedict XIII . |
| 28 | The book once belonged to Henry II , Duke and King of Bavaria and later ( 1014–24 ) Holy Roman Emperor , but was presented to the cathedral at Bamberg at its dedication in 1012 . |
| 29 | The draft of a new constitution was presented to the Assembly on April 25 . |
| 30 | It is through the generosity of the 11th Duke that the Duke 's Barn Countryside Centre , a marvellous study and conference centre on the Chatsworth estate , was presented to the school in 1986 . |