Example sentences of "present at [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ( It was not until the 1939 conclave that all the cardinals were present at a papal election , due as one observer put it to " the advance of medicine and transport " . )
2 He had telephoned Uncle Vernon before midnight to explain that Rose Lipman had insisted on Stella being present at a small celebration given by the Board of Governors .
3 Rosenfeld and colleagues have shown by in situ hybridizations with embryonal and adult rat brain sections that the brn-2 mRNA is abundant during all stages of neurogenesis and is present at a lower level in distinct neuronal subsets in the adult CNS [ 11 ] These data were corroborated by EMSA studies showing a similar abundance and distribution of the N-Oct 3 protein [ 13 ] [ 14 ] .
4 The audience were hypnotised by the piece , each member , even those cynical about ‘ so-called ‘ ’ modern' ’ music' , knew they were present at a historic event .
5 Compared with the Privy Council of Elizabeth 's reign it was a large body : 183 councillors attended during the twenty-five years of the reign and sometimes more than forty were present at a single meeting .
6 Indeed , I recall being present at a formal state banquet in Malawi when the Life President , His Excellency the very elderly Dr Hastings Banda , had been speaking for 45 minutes proposing the toast and had still only reached 1947 .
7 According to the party statutes a quorum depended not on a simple majority of central committee members being present at a plenary session but on all the LCY 's constituent republican and provincial Leagues of Communists ( LCs ) being represented .
8 Officials of the club and the Legion branch were present at a special ceremony to hand over a certificate of appreciation for their kindness .
9 The seaside photographer who promises ‘ Memories to treasure ’ with every happy snap might have been present at every major golfing occasion in the Eighties as the players of the age showed their capacity for repeating and exceeding the highwater marks of the very recent past .
10 On 15 September some 80 guests were present at an Overseas Reception at London Weekend Television House , where they had a first class view of the flypast from the eighteenth floor .
11 Creativity can be seen to be complementary , rather than opposed , to conventional engineering , which must be present at an adequate level to permit a high quality solution .
12 Additionally , Jim , Lee and I will be present at the Joint Conference at Inverclyde on 3–4 October when we will be pleased to expand on the foregoing and to assist you further .
13 A minor fraction of phosphatidylserine may be present at the outer surface of platelets , but this can not usually be detected .
14 Yeltsin was not present at the Russian Federation Supreme Soviet session .
15 It is that a person who takes another 's car ‘ can escape liability to tougher sentences only if he or she can show , on the balance of probabilities , that either the aggravating event occurred before he or she committed [ the basic s. 12 offence ] , or that he or she was not present at the relevant time . ’
16 Rule 5 strikes a note familiar to all Sunday School teachers and Superintendents : ‘ Scholars who shall have been marked absent for twelve Sabbaths of the year shall not be entitled to be present at the Annual Festival Excursion .
17 The Commission is present at the political co-operation meetings , which proves useful and important , but it does not have the monopoly of initiative , as it would have if the meetings took place under the treaty of Rome .
18 Pope John was present at the general congregation on 7 December .
19 Indeed , he was extremely furious and led the fight to establish a new body and was present at the first meeting of the British Deaf and Dumb Association in Leeds in 1890 .
20 This molecule , because of the partly polar nature of the ester bond , is present at the micellar interface , but preferentially located in the bulk solvent .
21 Unfortunately I was not able to be present at the actual service in January 1947 .
22 He and I were present at the recent opening of its new school building , for which I had the pleasure of being the Minister responsible for making available the necessary resources .
23 According to very senior sources who were present at the final session of the summit , what actually happened was subtly different from the PR people 's version .
24 Oesophagitis was still present at the second endoscopy in three patients and the treatment had to be continued for a further four to six weeks , when a third endoscopy confirmed complete healing .
25 I was present at the public meeting at Hutchison Crossway on 26 Nov. and I made some comments , warmly welcoming the proposals and asking about the upgrading of a parallel cycle route .
26 Sulphur compounds are probably present at the Cytherean surface , and the partial pressure of SO 2 and other gaseous sulphur compounds is probably determined by equilibrium with these surface repositories , as suggested for CO 2 .
27 Chest and abdominal computed tomography was performed every six months when lymph node or lung involvement was present at the initial staging .
28 Gliadin fragments present at the microvillar membrane may be taken up by apical endocytosis .
29 Studies reported here show that : a ) Transcripts from genes not concerned by the mutation are present at the same level in both strains .
30 Birth and death , the ultimate holding and letting go , were paradoxically present at the same moment .
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