Example sentences of "to be put to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 A defence of this kind , a claim that the purpose was only to frighten and not to cause harm , requires the full definition to be put to the jury .
2 It referred to the regional strategy which is currently out for consultation but was an emerging document and copies of that were again appended to the briefing paper it outlined the county council 's procedures which were followed in progress in the structure plan it outlined a programme establishing the weight of opinion of objectors it indicated our process in preparing policy amendments to be put to the panel and all those matters were made public It also requested the panel 's view on the role of county council members at the enquiry in public the responses to that were not made public and were in fact a question which was clearly put to the panel .
3 The size of the combined opposition and abstentions indicated how far Lenin 's arguments had won the day , just before the Bolsheviks were to be put to the test of power .
4 In an attempt to boost a moral and economic recovery , the government had announced that the renaissance of a country ‘ fit for heroes to live in ’ was to be put to the test in the spring of 1924 .
5 He suddenly remembered that Stephen Blufton 's information about drug smuggling was due to be put to the test that day .
6 Just as speeches by ministers made in association with the passage of an Act of Parliament are of little or no interest to a judge when he comes to interpret the law , so it is highly unlikely , though the matter has yet fully to be put to the test , that the Court of Justice will take much notice of intergovernmental pronouncements or agreements .
7 Her own susceptibilities were n't about to be put to the test .
8 A buy-out would be well beyond the means of the cricket club , adding weight to tonight 's meeting , which will make recommendations to be put to the club 's membership .
9 ‘ A report on consultations received and amendments made to the draft Plan is due to be put to the Planning Services Committee at the end of June ’ .
10 They 'd told her , on no account was he to be allowed to cry for a feed , but that at the same time he was n't to be put to the breast unless he really wanted to .
11 Towards the end of the Attorney General 's speech , George Robertson , Labour 's foreign affairs spokesman , pressed for a motion which would have had the effect of delaying progress on the bill to be put to the vote .
12 Whatever may be the effect of the Practice Direction read against the word of the statute the present case was clearly one where the judge , if he had a discretion about the matter at all , should have allowed the convictions to be put to the witness .
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