Example sentences of "[conj] put at " in BNC.
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| 1 | An important feature is that once bonuses are given , they can not later be withdrawn or put at risk due to some speculative investment . |
| 2 | The DTI is currently proceeding with the 14th Round of Oil/Gas Licensing through which it is selling oil companies the permission to explore many blocks of seabed which the Government 's official advisers on nature conservation have said should not be disturbed or put at risk in this way . |
| 3 | But some irresistible compulsion drove him on to hazard again the life he relished so much , and to put at risk my happiness as well . |
| 4 | Baldwin contemplated all this at Aix , and made up his mind both to go for protection and to put at risk the first independent Conservative majority for two decades . |
| 5 | Some people in some circumstances are more likely correctly to assess the argument for authority if put at one level of generality than at another . |
| 6 | They had one likeness of Oreste , sent at Christmas when Wilson had requested it should be taken , and this was removed from its frame and put at the end of the chart . |
| 7 | We had to be washed , dressed , have our hair immaculate ( which was difficult because I had to plait mine ) , strip all the bedclothes off our beds ( which seemed totally a pointless exercise and got right up my nose the entire time I was at Styal ) , and fold them to a complicated and immaculate design — sheet , blanket , sheet all wrapped round with the counterpane and put at the end of your bed . |
| 8 | Their combined size was estimated at only around 200,000 people in 1951 , but was six times larger by 1971 and put at over 2.4 million by the mid 1980s ( Shaw , 1988 ) . |
| 9 | At clipping time the sheep were driven in and penned , and as they were clipped , the fleeces were thrown up to a helper standing on the gallery and put at once into the wool store . |