Example sentences of "in the presence of an " in BNC.

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1 He never quite got over the sense of being a boy in the presence of an adult .
2 It can be seen that continued administration of the remedy once the disease disturbance has been overcome will result in the presence of an energy pattern of the remedy itself i.e. a proving .
3 The non-trivial point I am making is that the difference is not in the presence of an additional reason for action , but in the existence of a pre-emptive reason .
4 Some fellows , when they have had a few drinks , and are in the presence of an attractive woman , are prone to talk too much .
5 This left charges for one murder and for travelling in the presence of an unlicensed pistol .
6 Charges in connection with one remaining murder and travelling in the presence of an unlicensed pistol were still pending against Orchin , Richmond and McCready when The Sunday Times published its findings .
7 On January 18th , we will celebrate the Installation of the Sixth Bishop of Middlesbrough , the Right Reverend John Patrick Crowley , in the presence of an invited congregation including Civic and Ecumenical guests , parish and diocesan representatives , together with fellow Bishops and clergy of the diocese .
8 Because its crystals are so small , they are ‘ superparamagnetic ’ — they can not be magnetised permanently at room temperature and are thus only magnetic in the presence of an outside magnetic field .
9 At present special requests have to be submitted and justified if calls are to be made ; they are made in the presence of an officer and they are charged at far in excess of the ‘ normal ’ rate because of the need to ask the operator to ring back with the cost — for which a surcharge is made .
10 A submissive ‘ mouthing ’ gesture : as used by a foal in the presence of an older horse .
11 For Ricky Stride , association with Minton was like being in the presence of an exploding star : anything might happen , for he created around him an exciting and excitable atmosphere .
12 In the presence of an overt direct object , hide and conceal are cognitive synonyms — John hid the money is equivalent to John concealed the money but hide is not replaceable by conceal in , for instance , Go and hide !
13 In May 1804 a meeting was arranged in the presence of an Austrian field-marshal in Zemun ( Semlin ) , the Austrian-occupied town across the Sava from Belgrade .
14 An end-labelled linear DNA fragment containing both P A2b and P A3 promoters was incubated at 37°C with σ A -RNA polymerase , in the absence ( P A2b ) or presence ( P A3 ) of protein p4 , with or without the initiating NTPs ( GTP and UTP ) , and in the presence of an excess of non-specific DNA ( see Methods , section for KMnO 4 footprinting ) .
15 It is , therefore , possible that in the presence of an autonomic neuropathy of long duration the number of working sweat glands decreases and their distribution becomes irregular .
16 For example , in many tissues , 2 2 Na can be shown to be concentrated into plasma membrane vesicles in the presence of an in to out transmembrane H + gradient .
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