Example sentences of "[pers pn] presents a [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She presents a broken tea-cup to the landlord , who charges four pence for whisky . |
| 2 | This makes them appear not just personally unhappy but it presents a negative impression to their hosts . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And it presents an interesting parallel to the theory that powerful bureaucracies inhibit the development of parties and legislatures . |
| 6 | 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 . |