Example sentences of "to be present " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | An account of the last hours and words is written for the edification of those unable to be present . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | According to one report , people could hardly wait for the attack to start , and everybody wanted to be present at Britain 's impending defeat . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | I had met both rivers previously on my travels , and felt glad to be present at their marriage . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He said formally , ‘ I would like you to be present at the boatyard tomorrow morning . ’ |
| 14 | One kind of nucleic acid , DNA or deoxyribosenucleic acid , was known to be present in chromosomes , and hardly anywhere else . |
| 15 | To be present at the moment the evening breeze shuddered in the roses ? |
| 16 | Liverpool players , stunned by their manager 's dramatic disclosures , are more determined than ever to win next Monday 's semi-final replay against Portsmouth , and club officials are already considering the prospect of Mr Souness interrupting his recuperation to be present at Wembley . |
| 17 | UNFORTUNATELY , I was unable to be present at the luncheon at a London hotel on Tuesday when the Duke of Gloucester presented the first English Tourist Board car park awards . |
| 18 | To what extent are these factors likely to be present in modern analytical laboratories ? |
| 19 | Yet , as Mary Ainsworth ( 1969 ) points out in relation to the concept of attachment between mother and child ( monkeys included ) , a mental or physiological condition can be said to be present even when it is not visible in behaviour . |
| 20 | Only an H , O or A horizon is likely to be present above rock . |
| 21 | This five-fold ( pentameral ) symmetry seems a peculiar number to be present over such a wide range of organisms . |
| 22 | God is present throughout reality in the sense in which a person can be said to be present throughout his or her body . |
| 23 | They may be at risk because of identifiable genetic disorders which are known to be present , or because of the age of the mother . |
| 24 | Thirdly , the only course of action if some form of handicap is detected , is to have an abortion , as the handicap has already been shown to be present in the foetus . |
| 25 | The godmother was the Queen of Sweden , also unable to be present in person , who was represented by Princess Stephanie Louise Napoleon , Grand Duchess of Baden . |
| 26 | This was the occasion for further expressions of friendship on the part of the two sovereigns , for Queen Victoria had taken a personal interest in the Empress 's accouchement and had sent Lady Ely , one of her ladies-in-waiting , to be present at the birth . |
| 27 | Hector had refused to be present . |
| 28 | The chemical structures of isoniazid and Marsilid were , somewhat distantly , related to that of several of the amines known to be present in living tissues . |
| 29 | Specimens recovered from the sea floor showed that this ridge consists entirely of volcanic rocks , and similar ridges were soon found to be present beneath many of the oceans . |
| 30 | And I would n't like to be present when you express your views , if ever you do . ’ |