Example sentences of "putting [pers pn] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ For putting me in the right frame of mind for facing that rat Silvio .
2 ‘ Rule 2 : Where there is a contract for the sale of specific goods and the seller is bound to do something to the goods , for the purpose of putting them into a deliverable state , the property does not pass until the thing is done , and the buyer has notice that it has been done . ’
3 The tentacles of the Corallimorphia are always in multiples of six , putting them into the taxonomic subclass Hexacorallia which also contains sea anemones , hard corals and zoanthids .
4 The market had expected Thames , Severn Trent and North West to be listed , putting them at an immediate investment advantage to the rest of the sector .
5 are putting in they have high attendance rates because they 're including explained absences you know , as justified you know , and putting them with the actual attendance
6 After emancipation the state could transform recruitment by enlisting more people each year but putting them on the reserve list much sooner .
7 Pendle Consultants Ltd , the Yorkshire-based training and recruitment specialists , have made a great success of recruiting inexperienced staff after putting them through an unorthodox interview procedure , designed to reveal personal strengths and weaknesses of potential sales personnel , rather than stressing their previous experience .
8 In mid-October 1858 Alexander lent his imprimatur to Rostovtsev 's letters by putting them to the Main Committee .
9 Parliament did not often pass laws with any wide-ranging implications , and the most wide-ranging recent laws , the religious legislation of the Reformation , were never applied at all precisely in America , but no legal framework could have been imagined for the colonies which gave them a legitimate position under English law without putting them under the legislative supremacy of Parliament .
10 But , as he admits , ‘ Putting them in a proper order is a matter that will never be settled to everyone 's satisfaction . ’
11 you know I , I think , I think usually what I say about questionnaires is towards the business of , you know , kind of writing them in people 's own words that , that sort of fit in with ordinary language okay putting them in a sensible order advising people to do scale type things with five or seven points or something which you 've got a lot of already so a lot of the comments that I normally make on people 's questionnaires er you can take as read as it were erm so I think erm you know just really one or two minor things about layout like , you know , you know sort of space and , and moving things around a wee bit , it might make them easier to read but again as I say that 's a you know relatively minor erm problem .
12 And , as Dalgliesh had heard him argue , for all their demands for equality of status and opportunity , putting them in the front line behind the riot shields , taking the petrol bombs , the hurled stones and now the bullets , only made the job of their male colleagues even more onerous .
13 R's like they are putting you in a helpless position and expecting you to be able to operate from there .
14 He told us what sport it was to take her to the ‘ Houtsize ‘ 0use ’ in London , first putting her on the Inner Circle , getting off smartly himself , and leaving her to go round and round until his amusement wore off .
15 ‘ Luce is fond of you and she does n't want to hurt you , but you 're putting her in an impossible situation by your pig-headedness .
16 Injuries permitting , he should finish this season approaching 600 career games — with a tally of goals putting him among the 300-plus elite .
17 AFTER THE Tunney fiasco , they were n't doing anything without putting it through the full committee structure .
18 Having created their masterpiece , they 're hardly going to just sit on it ( and spin ) — putting it into the Public Domain is a very cost-effective method of bringing their work to the attention of leading software development houses ( Ashley Routledge and David Saunders of Poseidon and St Dragon fame started out this way ) .
19 To take but one other example from an experimental approach common in the late 1960s and early 1970s , suppose one trains a mouse by putting it onto a small shelf in the wall of a cage with a grid flour which can be electrified .
20 A dozen years ago , half ICI 's sales were in the UK , tying the company 's fortunes to Britain 's anaemic manufacturing industry and putting it at a colossal disadvantage to rivals in more robust economies ; last year , the proportion was down to 21% , against 31% in the Americas , 25% in continental Europe , 17% in the Asia-Pacific region and 6% elsewhere .
21 He reorganized the life of the brotherhood , putting it on a sound basis of regular devotion , clear instruction , and caring ministry .
22 hundred quid 's putting it on the light side .
23 It effectively charges it because if you 've got six thousand allowances and you withdraw that amount putting it against the total income it means that you 're actually paying tax on those by deduction .
24 In terms of total votes , the NRC won 54.2 per cent of the vote in the gubernatorial elections , putting it in a strong position for the presidential elections due in 1992 .
25 ‘ She may be getting plenty of food , but she 's putting it in a poor skin , ’ retorted Sarah .
26 Putting it in an academic essay would certainly be unexpected , but it might be possible to claim that it is a regional/class standard written form .
27 So Dymo effectively uses FDC as a data collection device , collecting the data locally , validating it , and putting it in an electronic format for automatic transfer to the head office for consolidation .
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