Sentence examples for it were present from inspiring English sources

Riley knows her art history, and treats the past as though it were present in her art.

To do this, they accessed datasets containing detailed maps of all the rivers and basins in the contiguous United States — more than 1 million in total — along with datasets containing two climatic parameters for every region in the country: precipitation rate and potential evapotranspiration, or the rate at which surface water would evaporate if it were present.

The mechanism by which the stiffener affects the changes in stress distribution has been investigated using evidence gained from applying various translational and rotational restraints to the chord surface of an unstiffened joint along the line where the central rack plate would intersect if it were present.

Can you imagine what this cat would look like if it were present at a performance of "old computers singing Bohemian Rhapsody"?

However, initial simulations showed that Ca would be released from calcite, if it were present, so it could be deduced that the Hettangian sandstone was calcite-free.

The group could not confirm the absence of a Houthi military target in the vicinity, but stressed that even if it were present, "the use of a weapon with wide area effects in a crowded market would have been unlawfully indiscriminate or expected to cause disproportionate civilian loss".

Turned away but, as it were, presenting.

It was present at its own making".

But it is present.

It's present.

It is "Present Laughter," not merely "Laughter".