Example sentences of "presented to [pers pn] as " in BNC.

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1 Law , that is to say , is made valid by my experience of it , and not by the fact that it is presented to me as law .
2 It was presented to them as a detective game in which they were encouraged to help the Pink Panther to solve some mysteries .
3 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 .
4 Lamarck is presented to us as a man misunderstood , misrepresented , undeservedly neglected and as the subject of calumnies that made him appear as ‘ the enemy of religion and teleology , even as a mechanistic materialist ’ .
5 In the end , and because Lord Hunter was presented to us as a man of independent judgement , we decided to do so , and advised Meehan to do the same .
6 Haunted by the fear that perhaps man is not the superior species , we seek salvation and find it because the animal kingdom is presented to us as a world of such wonder and magical beauty that we can believe in God 's kingdom and therefore our divine right to rule .
7 To act on the public sector will mean that part of the bill ( that is , that part not paid for by improved productivity ) will be presented to us as taxpayers .
8 We identify a stretch of language as a text partly because it is presented to us as a text , and we therefore do our utmost to make sense of it as a unit , and partly because we perceive connections within and among its sentences .
9 She says it 's turning what was presented to us as a local bypass into a major through-way — motorway style — six lanes , elevated to 35 feet in places , lit all night slap through Oxford 's green belt .
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