Example sentences of "put forward " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggest that a simpler approach to detecting the direction of motion of an object , one method of which was put forward by M Kumaran in July , is to use half a 74LS74 D-type flip-flop , as shown in the diagram , which performs exactly the same function . |
| 2 | Edward Weiss , chairman of the report 's working party , said the recommendations were being put forward as an alternative to privatisation . |
| 3 | ‘ A motion has been put forward that the Polish United Workers ’ Party ( the Communist Party ) should … give the right to vote to all of its members . |
| 4 | The plan was put forward in Brussels last week in line with the mandate to orchestrate the aid effort given to the European Commission at a meeting of 24 Western nations in Paris in July . |
| 5 | It is for this reason the UK accountancy bodies have put forward the idea of a European accounting standards body in the hope of persuading Brussels to toe the IASC line . |
| 6 | Theories have been put forward that it had anything from 6 to 24 sides , and even that it may have been circular . |
| 7 | Since the fifth century BC , when Democritus of Abdera first put forward the idea , scientists and philosophers have speculated on the nature of the fundamental constituents of matter . |
| 8 | Eliot was fascinated by the idea which Cornford had put forward ‘ in ‘ The Origin of Attic Comedy ’ , [ that ] this [ medicine-man ] Doctor may be identical with the Doctor who is called in to assist Punch after he has been thrown by his horse' . |
| 9 | Though his ‘ City ’ is put forward as a remedy for secular , increasingly industrial-urban values , he does conceive of it as including non-Christians , though these he hopes would be a minority . |
| 10 | Though he now said that he was ‘ no longer very much interested in my own theories about poetic drama , especially those put forward before 1934 ’ , the old interests which had fascinated him from his first dramatic Fragments continued to grip him , leading to the fact that each of his dramas had as its ‘ sort of springboard ’ a ‘ Greek myth ’ . |
| 11 | In perhaps one of the most shocking hypotheses ever put forward in the drama , Genet suggests that the only thing that distinguishes the sexual pervert who masquerades as priest , king , or hero from his legitimate social counterpart , is a certain timidity . |
| 12 | For Fanon this means that , despite Europe 's crimes , which will not and can not be forgotten , the Third World 's ‘ new history of Man ’ must ‘ have regard to the sometimes prodigious theses which Europe has put forward ’ since ‘ all the elements of a solution to the great problems of humanity have , at different times , existed in European thought ’ ( Wretched of the Earth , 253 — 4 ) . |
| 13 | The first such questions arises over the specific status of the evolutionary sequence which is being put forward . |
| 14 | There is a Bertone version on the cards and it 's believed both Pininfarina and ItalDesign have also put forward proposals . |
| 15 | The argument might be put forward , therefore , that the treatment slows the body clock enough for it now to be adjusted to a 24-hour day by normal time-cues . |
| 16 | The consultants calculate that ministers have put forward £250 million for the shake-up . |
| 17 | But John Morgan says : ‘ Dumenil may have put forward some thoughts that might help unit holders , but it needs a lot of thought before it turns into a proposal . |
| 18 | But John Morgan says : ‘ Dumenil may have put forward some thoughts that might help unit holders , but it needs a lot of thought before it turns into a proposal . |
| 19 | ‘ Meat and animal-based foods were put forward as the most nutritious form of sustenance and this propaganda changed the shape of generations . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The World Bank has already put forward proposals for a global environment fund with which UNEP and the UN Development Programme would be associated . |
| 22 | ‘ Inflation ’ , as this is called , got a rapturous reception when it was put forward in 1980 , despite , or perhaps because of , its weirdness ( cosmologists , after all , undergo years of training so that they can say things like ‘ When the universe was the size of a grapefruit ’ without blushing or laughing ) . |
| 23 | Lloyd 's has put forward a constructive plan ; it must not be allowed to flounder on rate . |
| 24 | For it is not clear that the generative or productive motions which ‘ cause ’ a circle really are put forward as ‘ efficient ’ causes ; Hobbes has a tendency to speak of them in ways which make it not inappropriate to think of them in terms of some notion of ‘ formal ’ cause . |
| 25 | Since , as the very titles of his books illustrate , his immaterialism was explicitly and primarily put forward as an antidote or corrective to scepticism and atheism , it was important that he explain this . |
| 26 | Soon after this , his name was put forward for the Jamaican Senate and he became a member , but although he attended regularly it was not something he took to . |
| 27 | The event was not much talked about in the family ; it was too dreadful ; and I do n't suppose for a moment that Aunt Kate , then living abroad , would have wondered whether she , herself , might not have played a part in the sequence of events ; nor do I remember any such theory ever having been put forward or even thought of at the time . |
| 28 | More trade-union sponsored Labour candidates were put forward in the 1929 General Election as unions recognized the failure of industrial action . |
| 29 | A significant proportion supported the appeasement policies being put forward by Chamberlain . |
| 30 | Many bizarre proposals have been put forward to save the tower in recent years , including flying a huge helium balloon from its top , securing it with a giant safety pin , and lopping off its uppermost floor , which is a later addition . |