Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be presented [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again I thought , well , the world 's there whenever I want it and I had been presented with an incredible opportunity . ’ |
| 2 | This seems strange to me now because I feel sure that if I had been presented with the image of the glass coffin when I was well into the depressive phase of anorexia , I should have recognised it instantly . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In human terms the reasoning which had been presented to him was filled with flaws and false assumptions . |
| 5 | A report by an internal party committee set up to review Labour 's failure in elections in November 1988 , which had been presented to the central committee on May 27 , strongly criticised Peres for running a campaign based on the cult of his own personality . |
| 6 | He quoted " dramatic data " which had been presented to a recent meeting of a committee charged with deciding the future of the shell . |
| 7 | Gould had seen one of these bowers in the Sydney Museum , which had been presented by his brother-in-law Charles Coxen , and was determined to observe the construction in use in its place of origin : |
| 8 | The revised 1991 budget , which had been presented in March 1991 [ see p. 38109 ] was approved by the Bundestag in June . |
| 9 | On Nov. 4 the Commission gave a favourable Opinion on Finland 's application for EC membership which had been presented in March 1992 [ see p. 38834 ] . |
| 10 | Sobbing with pain and rage , he was carted off to hospital by an ashen Claudia and the family doctor , who 'd been presented with a horse every time he delivered a Mendoza baby . |
| 11 | Australian DJ Brian White told his listeners that a drunken journalist had approached Kylie after she had been presented with an award and asked her if she felt ashamed to have won it in a room full of so many talented people . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the interval , she had been presented to him . |
| 15 | It had been taken when she had been presented to King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra earlier in the year . |
| 16 | ‘ After you had been presented to our gracious Queen , last summer , you followed custom by having your photograph taken in all your finery . ’ |
| 17 | In particular , ‘ Britain was bounced into surrenders of sovereignty which she would never have accepted if they had been presented as abstract ideas ’ . |
| 18 | Now that they had been presented with the information which they had requested all along , they had to prove that faecal contamination of the egg shell did not constitute any great risk to public health , Mother Catherine said . |
| 19 | Mike Shaw ( left ) and Barbara Finnan after they had been presented with their cheques by Brian Roberts ( centre ) . |
| 20 | Previously , they had been presented in the basic , unaffected prose of fanzines but knew they had officially arrived in the real world of music journalism when Neil Taylor asked them to pose outside Buckingham Palace . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | … 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 . |
| 23 | In particular , he fails to comment on the fact that eighty-five per cent of the seven-year-olds passed item ( 1 ) — a fact which suggests that even younger children might have been capable of passing this item , especially if it had been presented in an oral rather than a written form . |
| 24 | And already in similiar circumstances in France last summer he had been presented with the kind of opportunity to prove himself that many young pianists must dream of in vain : he was called on , again at very short notice , to stand in for the even more illustrious Sviatoslav Richter at Richter 's own festival at the Grange Meslay near Tours . |
| 25 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 26 | On Thursday the FBI played through loudspeakers tapes of previous conversations between negotiators and Koresh and a cult member , Steve Schneider , to make certain that all 105 followers still inside the compound were aware of what had been presented in the talks . |