Example sentences of "to be put [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 2 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 3 | When big investors get on the telephone they expect to be put through to the chairman , not ‘ lumbered into a PR-type department ’ . |
| 4 | Each leaf , with its own Pledge for the Planet will be pinned on a giant ‘ tree ’ which is to be put up outside the summit building in Rio de Janeiro . |
| 5 | Nonetheless the bench will in practice expect consent orders , orders for custody and access and injunctive orders to have been prepared beforehand , and to be put up to the bench for approval . |
| 6 | If duty were to be put up in the budget , then the distortion of the market would be greater than it already is . |
| 7 | Moreover , educated young Catholics were likely to be put off by the party 's style of opposition , which could often appear even more obsessed with sectarian symbolism than the Unionists were . |
| 8 | Manville refused to be put off by the objections . |
| 9 | When you look inside try not to be put off by the decor — if it 's hideous , you can always redecorate . |
| 10 | There is no need to be put off by the name , for in fact database systems are simply computerised filing cabinets . |
| 11 | BEER enthusiasts have been told not to be put off by the ‘ folky ’ image of Darlington 's Small Beer Festival . |
| 12 | After the news of the secret negotiations between the government , Leyland Vehicles and GM broke in February 1986 , the government allowed alternative bids to be put in for the different parts of the firm . |
| 13 | It seems that matters have fallen behind schedule and need to be put back on the rails . |
| 14 | If the ban is approved , the contractor would have the chance to reapply in two years to be put back on the list . |
| 15 | We have a right to ask for it to be put back to the state it was in . ’ |
| 16 | So you 'd like to be put down on the ballot to be approved do you ? |
| 17 | Trollope nearly loses control on the subject of The Plumber , a man ‘ doubtless aware that he is odious … to be put down with the tax-gatherer as being as certain as fate and as inexorable . ’ |
| 18 | When , at the end of July and the beginning of August 1943 , four RAF raids practically wiped out the centre of Hamburg — Germany 's second city — in fire-storms , killing some 40,000 people , rumours spread that unrest had had to be put down by the police and SA or Wehrmacht , and that there was a ‘ November mood ’ — an allusion to the revolutionary mood of November 1918 — in the Reich which would rise up against the unbearable air raids . |
| 19 | The Army and Navy have moved significantly down the path towards contracting out and have very few contracts left to be put out for the first time . |
| 20 | The Commandos in the trench with me did not seem to be put out by the noise and the explosions caused by the Moaning Minnies ; no doubt they had heard it all before . |