Example sentences of "be present " in BNC.
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| 1 | A piece of oral history may be meant to do without a presiding historian in much the same way in which an analytic session may be meant to do without a presiding analyst ; theoretical presuppositions are subject in each case to a show of suspension , though it is clear that the theories of Freud and others will be present in the consulting-room , and that oral historians may be sympathetic to socialism and to the methods of Marxist historiography . |
| 2 | Tony Deep ( associate producer , FAMILY PRIDE ) and members of both the production team and the cast will be present to discuss the series . |
| 3 | At the time of printing it is not possible to confirm Clive Owen and Leslie Phillips will be present . |
| 4 | If you both want the father to be present at the birth , ask about arrangements for this at the hospital as early as you can . |
| 5 | This is not much help because ( a ) later-developing concepts must still on the representational theory of the mind be present in these primitive concepts ( there are no merely potential competences such as my potential but non-existing competence to know Portuguese ) ; and ( b ) how and where do we draw the line between the primitive concepts and the developed ones ? |
| 6 | Possibly a smell similar to pear drops will also be present on your dog 's breath . |
| 7 | The communique which accompanied the agreement accepted the principle that , when the UDR and the Army came into contact with the public , a police officer should , whenever possible , be present . |
| 8 | ROYAL ENGAGEMENTS The Queen and The Duke of Edinburgh visit Malaysia , and will be present in Kuala Lumpur for the Opening Stages of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting . |
| 9 | On one occasion during field-work a father who needed to be present while his young son was being questioned at the station instructed his child to ‘ Tell these f'ing black bastards nothin' ’ , and when told that that was a lovely way to bring up his son replied , ‘ Aye , and I 'll keep bringing him up that way ’ ( FN 11/7/87 , p. 9 ) . |
| 10 | Three committee members drove from Geneva to be present and in all some 17 Members and Friends of the Swiss Branch gathered at Sussexdown in the late morning of 1 August . |
| 11 | Many bands feel that each member should be present at every interview . |
| 12 | General hints at fertility ceremonies may be present , demonstrating another continuity in theme between this and earlier poetry ; but it is important to see that , though its death and rebirth are also related , Christianity is presented by Eliot as an escape from Frazerian cycles of fertility ( in the way that the Buddhist ‘ Shantih shantih shantih ’ hinted at such an escape ) , not as its mere continuation . |
| 13 | Remove any old sealing compound which may be present on the bath close to the tap fixing . |
| 14 | Representatives of Missionary orders will also be present . |
| 15 | Jimmy 's camera crew will not be present — alas for viewers who like a bit of metaphorical blood on their sitting room floors . |
| 16 | Mr Modrow said he and Dr Kohl would be present at the opening of a pedestrian crossing through the Brandenburg Gate before Christmas . |
| 17 | He criticised the system of screening and the appeals tribunal for refugees due to be sent back , saying they were forbidden to be present , allowed no legal representation , and were not told the reasons for decisions . |
| 18 | In 1982 the Arabs relented , but said that ( a ) they needed the cover of an ‘ international conference ’ and ( b ) that Yasser Arafat 's Palestine Liberation Organisation would have to be present , too . |
| 19 | One idea in the wind is that Mr Gorbachev should be present at the mid-July meeting of the G7 in London . |
| 20 | European diplomats say that Reginald Bartholomew , the under-secretary of state for security assistance , has warned them against doing anything with the WEU that undermines NATO or freezes out the Americans from security talks at which they think they are entitled to be present . |
| 21 | Two other persons must be present as witnesses . |
| 22 | If the date is to be precise to the year of felling , the bark must also be present , otherwise an estimate must be made of the number of missing rings corresponding to likely wastage by the carpenter . |
| 23 | An account of the last hours and words is written for the edification of those unable to be present . |
| 24 | Does she trust you enough to let you be present though ? ’ |
| 25 | The second stream speaks of the Lord now delivered from the limitations and particularity of human life to be present to his people at all times and places . |
| 26 | For our present purposes , however , one should notice that both writers agreed on the necessity of priestly consecration before Christ could be present in any sense in the sacrament of the altar . |
| 27 | According to one report , people could hardly wait for the attack to start , and everybody wanted to be present at Britain 's impending defeat . |
| 28 | The press had been given nothing but ‘ blurry , distorted photographs culled from television shots of occasions in the past at which North happened to be present ’ ; at best , ABC News had shown ‘ pictures of the back of a man 's head that may or may not have been North 's as the man got into an Embassy car in Cyprus on the occasion of the homeward flight of one of the hostages ’ . |
| 29 | I had met both rivers previously on my travels , and felt glad to be present at their marriage . |
| 30 | They were a young primary school teacher from Awlad Shaikh who appeared in the Magharba list and a professor of economics from Benghazi University with a United States doctorate , who unfortunately was unable to be present himself , but was supported by the Zuwaya . |