Example sentences of "be presented to [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " See you , " said Alice , and turned away from the girl and went in , feeling that the 556 — at least — young couples with their spotty , frustrated infants had been presented to her by Fate , as her responsibility . |
| 2 | No one could accuse me of delaying consideration of allegations of miscarriage of justice when they have been presented to me . |
| 3 | I also want to put right it , er the facts that have been presented to me , that it 's an urban erm view , it 's city people making a er , their will , imposing their will on country folk , on the practices of country folk . |
| 4 | Apparently innocent of the opportunity which had been presented to them , they met in the Ravenhill Church and talked about what they should do and even hesitated about talking to the journalists waiting outside . |
| 5 | Some of them may succeed in keeping abreast of course-work but will make little attempt to understand what has been presented to them during lectures and tutorial periods . |
| 6 | The secret decision to continue production was teken by the President after several options had been presented to him by the Pentagon and the State Department . |
| 7 | He referred to the Bible that had been presented to him by the people of Memel St on July 10 at the opening of their march . |
| 8 | It had been presented to him by the City of Paris and on it were traced the lines of the new streets and boulevards which Napoleon III had worked out in conjunction with Baron Haussmann . |
| 9 | She had been presented to him , rather in the way she had been presented to her mother , ten years ago , by a Jamaican midwife , in Queen Mary 's Hospital , Roehampton . |
| 10 | … crime and folly and error can be as severely lashed , as virtue and morality can be upheld , by a series of amusing causes and effects , that entice the reader to take a medicine , which , although rendered agreeable to the palate , still produces the same internal benefit as if it had been presented to him in its crude state , in which it would either be refused or nauseated . |
| 11 | In the interval , she had been presented to him . |
| 12 | In human terms the reasoning which had been presented to him was filled with flaws and false assumptions . |
| 13 | I noticed in particular a large placard placed on the floor in a corner , which I assumed to have been presented to him by Montgomery Belgion , who had been a prisoner of war in Germany . |
| 14 | Sometimes what we expect to hear is predetermined by cultural influences as well as the ways in which facts have previously been presented to us . |
| 15 | What 's worse , they often do n't have the backbone to face the facts when these are presented to them . |
| 16 | Why have they such an appalling record when ready-made Bills are presented to them by the Law Commission ? |
| 17 | From the user 's point of view these systems are usually menu driven , that is the operator can select his path of consultation by choices within ranges of possible choices which are presented to him . |
| 18 | DB2 is a relational DBMS , that is data structures are presented to it in the form of tables ; IMS views the data structures in terms of hierarchies ; and IDMS in terms of networks . |
| 19 | Er today we 're going to look at this Policy E two , the op open countryside , and there are presented to you for the discussion three matters . |
| 20 | There simply are such ‘ indicative ’ signs , and they are presented to us in sense-experience ; on their basis we can reason to the hidden things which they ‘ indicate ’ . |
| 21 | The fragmented narrative cultivated by Vargas Llosa , for example , is intended to replicate the way in which we experience real life , in that events and information are presented to us in a disjointed fashion and it is only when we have lived through the reading experience that we are able to piece it all together with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 22 | All three are equally correct for each of the knitters , but what is important is that we as knitters have at least a basic understanding of all pattern writing methods , so that we can use all patterns , in whatever form they are presented to us . |
| 23 | And so therefore if anybody has amendments that they wish to make to the deliverance as it is , we will take them if necessary one by one and vote for them as they are presented to us , and then we 'll come to any other counter motions that may be on hand . |
| 24 | Whatever temptations are presented to us , we must not react . ’ |
| 25 | If the public is to get the message , it must be presented to them many times . |
| 26 | These systems expect data to be presented to them in terms of relations and normally present results to users in the form of relations . |
| 27 | After the event , 239 of the Earl 's friends subscribed towards a trophy to be presented to him as an expression of their gratitude and to commemorate the Tournament . |
| 28 | the people of the island made a collection to be presented to him in appreciation of his long service . |
| 29 | That 's right the tenth replacement depot in Lichfield and they used to come round to Walsall looking for absentees and deserters and they there was actually a shooting match in Street the MPs started firing the guns at these fellas who 'd gone absent without leave , and , but as I understand I remember at the time there was a lot of racism in America then and they , they picked these coloured fellas up and apparently the C O at Lichfield was very much a southern colonel and he was a racist and they used to chain these coloured guys up behind the trucks and make them walk all the way back to Lichfield behind the trucks driving the trucks at walking pace and I understand there was a , a salver , a commemorative salver in the Town Hall to be presented to him , and some an MP in the Council he were looking for this colonel , but as I understand he was court-martialled after the war for racism and so I do n't think he 'd be wanting , wanted to be connected with Walsall any more , so but this was |
| 30 | Having shaken hands with the dignitaries she moved to the quartet of golf professionals who were to be presented to her — Manuel Cabálleros , Gerhard Bugner , Des O'Grady and Andy Kyle . |