Example sentences of "been present [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This dilemma has been present since the beginnings of institutionalized literary study . |
| 2 | But it is possible to assess the ratio of elements in geological samples , which have been present since the formation of the Earth four thousand million years ago . |
| 3 | He brings to football a dimension which has n't been present since the days of the great wingers . |
| 4 | Preliminary observations on Harris ( Birks , unpublished ) suggest that local glaciers may have been present during the stadial in some of the valleys around Clisham , Ullaval , Tirga Mor , and Uisgnaval More . |
| 5 | Hollis had been present during the planning of the Crabb operation . |
| 6 | He stated that Bush had not been present during the Paris negotiations , but claimed that the Reagan delegation had included Casey . |
| 7 | Although no evidence had been found that Gnassingbe had been present during the attack , the report said he had been at the scene of the attack " immediately beforehand " . |
| 8 | There I had been present at the celebrations marking the Golden Jubilee of St Joseph 's College , Sasse , ( pronounced Sassay ) , where I used to teach . |
| 9 | A retired postman who claimed to have been present at the Battle of Studley Constable was interviewed on television , and I still receive the occasional letter from Germans and Americans claiming that fathers or uncles had been at the ‘ battle ’ . |
| 10 | Luckily the second tags on the babies ' arms were correct and van driver Derek , who had been present at the birth , was positive Daniel was his baby . |
| 11 | Within six days , on 3 May 1862 , the young boy died , Benjamin declaring as he applied for a certificate that he had been present at the death . |
| 12 | And predictably , McDonald and wife Juliet , who had also been present at the birth of the label , found themselves in financial trouble . |
| 13 | Had he been present at the gathering in the public bar of the Queen Anne pub near the Rotherhithe Tunnel he would have been worried even more . |
| 14 | Strip examination revealed that this was the result of slight corrosion on the contacts , and the evidence suggested that this may well have been present at the time of the accident . |
| 15 | Much play was made of the fact that , since he had been present at the murder of John , duke of Burgundy , at Montereau he could not properly and worthily inherit the throne , from which he was now excluded . |
| 16 | When Henry , who had not been present at the death-bed , arrived for the funeral , he at first refused to take the oath but eventually , confronted by his father 's decomposing body , he agreed to do so . |
| 17 | A fulsomely congratulatory message to me from Reuters later in the day made me aware that no representative of my rival overseas agencies had been present at the Jeanes conference . |
| 18 | He himself claimed to have been present at the battle of the Boyne , as a private soldier in King William 's army ; later he deserted from the Royal Regiment of Dragoons ( Scots Greys ) when serving under the first Duke of Marlborough [ q.v. ] in Flanders . |
| 19 | From then onwards , ‘ Fred T. Jane ’ became a recognized signature on bold black and white illustrations in a number of books and magazines ; so realistic was the picture in the Illustrated London News of the torpedoing of the ironclad Blanco Encalada in the Chilean revolutionary war of 1891 that a legend grew that Jane had been present at the action . |
| 20 | Alfonso was rumoured to have said , ‘ If I had been present at the Creation , I would have given some useful hints for the better arrangement of the Universe . ’ |
| 21 | Charlie had stopped by to speak to Josie as he 'd said he would , but Lucy had n't been present at the time . |
| 22 | She had been present at the incident involving Seb and Nahum the previous evening . |
| 23 | I , too , wish to apologise to the House for not having been present at the start of this debate . |
| 24 | Nor would Morse be forgetting the only man who had not been present at the meeting — the man who still lay with a wicked headache and a barely touched breakfast-tray beside him in Room 201 , to which room Shirley Brown had shepherdessed him when , after his unexplained absence , he had reeled into The Randolph the previous night . |
| 25 | The witness said that he had not been present at the meeting and had agreed that what was said then would not be recorded . |
| 26 | Having been present at the weekend of events held in the City Chambers , Edinburgh earlier this month to celebrate International Women 's Day , I was ‘ shocked and appalled ’ to see a letter from Alexandra Wallace ( 12 March ) on the content of the weekend . |
| 27 | I have many points to answer , rather than respond to hon. Members who have not been present for the full debate . |
| 28 | None of the overtones of subordination and all the rest of it would have been present to the Hebrew . |
| 29 | For the six full sessions every Monday and Tuesday so far , at least 400 of the 542 Supreme Soviet members have been present throughout the day . |
| 30 | It has been present from the beginning as a primitive rhythm , that element associated with the ‘ auditory imagination ’ of poetry , and so with the savage in the jungle and his gods , ‘ His rhythm was present in the nursery bedroom … |