Example sentences of "presents [art] [adv] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Festival Radio presents the most spectacular programme of radio drama initiatives for young people in southern England . |
| 2 | It also presents the most difficult problem for those who , like myself , are convinced on practical grounds that a sufficient case can not be made out for the restoration of capital punishment . |
| 3 | Jonathan Swift often presents a decidedly unpleasant view of women 's sexuality , yet his poetry provided a model for women poets of the time who wished to expose the deceptions of romantic love , and the concealed dangers of marriage . |
| 4 | Visual communication , via graphics terminals , is an exciting activity , and J. D. Foley and A. Van Dam 's Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics presents a mathematically difficult subject in an exciting way and deserves to become a major undergraduate text . |
| 5 | All this , plus the reliance on IBM operating software by the makers of plug-compatibles , presents a rather deceptive picture of software underdevelopment . |
| 6 | The drawback with equal partial allocation is that it presents a rather arbitrary account of events . |
| 7 | In the latter performance , recorded in 1960 , Kelmperer presents a rather detached impression of the score . |
| 8 | A Present View of Ireland presents a rather disturbing presentation of the means through which Spenser desires to conduct his civilising mission in Ireland . |
| 9 | Local historian W. G. Collingwood , pictured the setting ; " … a little town of sheds , offices , workshops and water-wheels , which , with the constant clatter of the machinery issuing therefrom , presents a most extraordinary contrast to the silence and solitude of the surrounding wilderness . " |
| 10 | Unfortunately , however , Hoving 's overweening ego becomes distressingly evident : he presents a soon tiring scenario of the young , hip , rebellious David against the stuffy old WASP Goliaths , symbolised by most of the board of trustees and members of the curatorial staff . |
| 11 | figure 5.11(c) presents a slightly different possibility in which the sizes of the A and B circles have not been changed . |
| 12 | In his book , The Science of Homoeopathy , the Greek homoeopathic practitioner Vithoulkas presents a slightly different diagram in which each ascending level is shown as being within and higher than the previous one , with all of them interpenetrated by the life force . |
| 13 | Each new academic year , the media presents a pretty accurate picture of the accommodation crisis , with students having to doss down in seminar rooms while hundreds of unhoused students search for a more suitable base . |
| 14 | Given the archbishop 's motives , it is likely that II Cnut often presents a somewhat optimistic view of events . |
| 15 | Now a signal box on a railway presents a fairly limited risk to life and a nursing home presents a fairly dramatic risk . |
| 16 | The interior design of the Safrane presents a totally different picture to that of its predecessor — the Renault 25 — and presents an altogether more welcoming environment than that of its main rivals . |
| 17 | While political science has greatly concentrated on the role of governments and the executive , at the cost of examining the role of legislatures , it is clear that academic comment now presents a more varied picture of the role of parliaments than that of the decline of which Lord Bryce wrote . |
| 18 | Finding the provenance of metal objects presents a more difficult problem for archaeological science . |
| 19 | As explained in section 2.3 , a diode is a device that presents a very low resistance to current flow when appreciable potential difference of one sign , known as forward , is applied while it presents a very high resistance to current flow when appreciable potential difference of the opposite sign , known as reverse , is applied . |
| 20 | As explained in section 2.3 , a diode is a device that presents a very low resistance to current flow when appreciable potential difference of one sign , known as forward , is applied while it presents a very high resistance to current flow when appreciable potential difference of the opposite sign , known as reverse , is applied . |
| 21 | As a general approach , this presents a very attractive picture of human beings , but we must not , on the other hand , allow this to distract us from the pressing reality of society as an institutionalised , patterned , constraining system . |
| 22 | Partnership with parents of socially disadvantaged children thus presents a very different challenge from that portrayed in the many reports of successful practice in some special schools . |
| 23 | However , the naturalistic account should not be rejected on the grounds that it is inadequate , as though it could be polished up a bit and made more acceptable : rather , it should be dismissed because it presents an entirely distorted picture of social reality . |
| 24 | On the map this Heath presents an absolutely typical picture of a planned landscape : dead straight by-roads , almost empty spaces between the villages , solitary farmsteads sparingly dotted about and reached by occupation roads running off the public roads , a vast landscape utterly bare of woodland except for neat little fox covers , square or rectangular patches of green for the most part . |
| 25 | The Holme Post , recording a drop of 3.9 metres since 1850 , presents an unrealistically optimistic picture of the problem , since it now stands in a damp nature reserve . |
| 26 | The result is that the publicly available information resource that might be of relevance to strategic decision making presents an extremely confusing picture to the executive decision maker . |