Example sentences of "present itself [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was how insanity had always presented itself to Kathleen Lavender 's imagination . |
| 2 | Dear Doctor After five years of reading your informative column , saving me immeasurable instances of possible musi-technical tension , a situation has newly presented itself to me that I can not recollect as being covered before . |
| 3 | The same scenario must have presented itself to Randy , Mitch and Noel . |
| 4 | Such a context might have presented itself during the struggle to secure the passage of the Reform Bill . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ That 's the one , me boy , and it has this morning presented itself in four mess-tins . |
| 10 | Christine half-turned then , and glanced at the room as if some ironic comment had presented itself in her mind ; but instead she said , ‘ Anyone can do anything . |
| 11 | Everything of importance has always happened to me in the autumn , every new departure has always presented itself within a dying context . |
| 12 | For busy housewives , Christmas can present itself with other problems — over-excited children and a million and one things to do . |
| 13 | Or a ready-made team may present itself with a management buy-out , buy-in or acquisition . |
| 14 | But we do not know how that self-contained unity will present itself to us . |
| 15 | This does not matter when Greece can present itself as a lonely outpost of western ideas , defying the barbarians ; then the West rallies round . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It is a problem which comes up at various points in considering the relations between biology and human practices , and may be put in the following way : how is a phenotypic character which would present itself in other species as a behavioural tendency represented in a species which has a culture , language and conceptual thought ? |
| 20 | The paradox does not present itself in quite so acute a form if a weaker version of the contextual approach is adopted , which holds merely that the meaning of a lexical unit reveals itself through its contextual relations , without commitment as to what meaning ‘ really is ’ . |
| 21 | A remarkably similar dilemma was now presenting itself over the hand-overs of the Yugoslavs . |
| 22 | Labour is not presenting itself for slaughter , as it did in 1983 and to a lesser extent in 1987 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In bringing the case , the Turkish government is presenting itself as a great ally of archaeologists . |
| 25 | Once again the novel repeatedly turns inwards to examine its own nature , presenting itself as a kind of palimpsest . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | A sport 's first concern , Pascoe says , should be its own development and that means presenting itself in the best possible way . |
| 29 | Opportunity for advertising also presents itself on receipt of a written enquiry about a job . |
| 30 | This latest book by the author of Any Woman 's Blues , Mary Helen Washington , presents itself on many levels . |