Example sentences of "[pron] presents a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.

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1 A quite developed model of the reasons for fragmentation of government into different tiers and sectors is provided by the dual state thesis , which presents a Marxist alternative to liberal corporatist theory ( see pp. 193 — 7 ) .
2 This is a topic on which McClellan himself has written and one which presents a fundamental problem to anyone planning book provision for public libraries .
3 She presents a broken tea-cup to the landlord , who charges four pence for whisky .
4 This makes them appear not just personally unhappy but it presents a negative impression to their hosts .
5 It presents a sharp contrast to similar houses occupied by their Welsh or English neighbours , divided into flats for nuclear units of mother-father-child or mother-child .
6 It is in fact of native Aryan origin and , with the dignity it confers on the crime against nature , it presents a marked contrast to the equivalent Semitic myth , the myth of the Fall .
7 And it presents an interesting parallel to the theory that powerful bureaucracies inhibit the development of parties and legislatures .
8 We are forced to conclude that each microsociety has its own elaborated code , capable of indefinite extension , but that it presents an opaque front to the confrontation surfaces of other microsocieties .
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