Example sentences of "[was/were] put [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To put things into context , if half of the membership were to put up 10p a week into an HCB , they would make a total yearly contribution of £260,000 . |
| 2 | I would have thought that if we were to put forward the two hundred and fifty pound to cover the , their extra lighting bill , that would have been money well spent . |
| 3 | Mr and Mrs Lugt were to put together one of the most fascinating collections of the next sixty years . |
| 4 | They were going through the motions on television but their voices , face and body language were vividly clear — they knew they would lose and they were putting on a brave front . |
| 5 | Probably she had seen that exhibition Adrian and Carol were putting on for everyone 's benefit . |
| 6 | THE Prince and Princess of Wales were putting on a brave front today . |
| 7 | so Malcolm just went in to see if there 'd be any tickets for the afternoon performance on the off-chance and they were putting on an extra matinee performance so lo and behold those two went to see Phantom of the Opera . |
| 8 | That they were putting on or was it the actual make up or ? |
| 9 | ‘ We were putting forward an overall package because of the financial problems facing so many small clubs not a quick-fix job . ’ |
| 10 | Erm the policy that we were putting forward is is essentially not the one that er was was debated in nineteen eight . |
| 11 | so it meant that for some time before contingency fund development was introduced you must of had some concerns er about the accuracy of the figures you were putting forward for the publication , can , can I explain that a little more ? if after a few years a major repair needs to be carried out there was no contingency fund , it might mean sticking another two or three hundred pounds a year on the service charges , might it not , to cover a major repair |
| 12 | However , they had called the egm and were putting forward a resolution which would remove four of their opponents from office . |
| 13 | The time was now 11.30 p.m. , the Germans were putting up their flares . |
| 14 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 15 | One Air Force Day we were putting up stands for a show and he leapt up and did about half a dozen speeches from Henry IV and Henry V . |
| 16 | Having understood what was going on , people were putting up their hands for requests . |
| 17 | She told him about the new high-tensile fencing they were putting up , and the ten acres of daffodil bulbs they were planting as an experiment rather than consigning the field to set-aside . |
| 18 | Above his head , two sailors were putting up a small sail . |
| 19 | Inside the ticket hall , a team of volunteers were putting up posters . |
| 20 | By the late 1960s , members were putting down up to 300 questions a day and the Speaker attempted to reach more oral questions by speeding up the exchanges so as to cover forty to fifty questions in fifty or fifty-five minutes . |
| 21 | At Nicaea in 325 the bishops and priests ( from the Western part of the empire , only priests attended ) were called together by the emperor because theological disputes were putting too much of a strain on the unity he was striving to achieve . |
| 22 | Warner Brothers said PWL stepped into the breach and were putting together the songs for the movie , including using several old 50 ’ s classics by Little Richard , Eddie Cochran and all , while Kylie was doing a cover version of ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , by Little Anthony and the Imperials , and looking for a Christmas Number One . |
| 23 | ‘ When we were putting together our demos , ’ says singer Mike , ‘ we heard ‘ The Only One I Know ’ by The Charlatans and I was really pissed off because I thought it was exactly what we were trying to do … and they 'd got there first . ’ |
| 24 | But in August , as the selectors were putting together their plans for the winter , I started saying to Gatt : ‘ Why the bloody hell has he got that end , I want it . ’ |
| 25 | By nineteen forty three individuals were putting aside almost one quarter of their disposable incomes . |
| 26 | Kevin and his brother were putting back the whiskeys and talking about things that meant nothing to her . |
| 27 | Eliot , as was to be expected , was particularly interested in the kind of propaganda we were putting out to Germany and Italy : for the propaganda war had already begun and was intensifying . |
| 28 | ‘ Meat and animal-based foods were put forward as the most nutritious form of sustenance and this propaganda changed the shape of generations . |
| 29 | This is reckoned to be the largest exercise of its type since the reforms were put forward , blood pressure started to rise , nostrils began to flare and so on . |
| 30 | More trade-union sponsored Labour candidates were put forward in the 1929 General Election as unions recognized the failure of industrial action . |