Example sentences of "putting [noun] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given economic growth and open markets , that figure could easily double in the next five years , and again in the next five , putting China into the top rank of the world 's traders and helping maintain the growth rates of its Asian neighbours . |
| 2 | Callaghan also invited the CPRS to prepare two papers — one putting flesh on the siege-economy option , the other assuming Britain 's continued engagement in open trading . |
| 3 | In the course of a statement to a congressional committee on Jan. 23 Greenspan said that such comments were not putting pressure on the Federal Reserve , but were merely statements that lower interest rates were preferable to higher ones . |
| 4 | For some years the growing number of bank collapses had been putting pressure on the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation ( FDIC ) , the government body which guaranteed the safety of private savers ' deposits in most , but not all , of the federally approved banks . |
| 5 | ‘ It can also be used for adults who have tumours putting pressure on the audiological part of the brain and can indicate the presence of other illnesses such as multiple sclerosis . ’ |
| 6 | Like his predecessors , Philip VI used the obligations of liege homage , and the threat of confiscation of the duchy if Edward defaulted on these obligations , as a means of putting pressure on the English king when his policies appeared to threaten French interests . |
| 7 | She sipped some of the water , and allowed Breeze to bathe her head with the rest , before putting butter on the burnt arm . |