Example sentences of "[noun] put [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm not very sure it 's prudent if you 're indicating your own incorruptibility as a poet to put it in the future tense in the first place , and when you continue as Pope does ‘ Envy must own , I live among the great ’ as he starts to describe his own life and you realise he 's bringing in touches about himself which really have very little to do with the particular role as poet , it becomes quite clear that that depersonalisation process has not taken place in the case of Pope . |
| 2 | We often feel like one of the black sheep of the independent sector — accepting a licence fee puts you in the not-serious programme makers ' league . |
| 3 | MIPS claims all RISC chips offer roughly the same performance and that its R4400 96 SPECint89 score puts it in the same league as HP , distinguished by its significantly lower price and wide availability . |
| 4 | As Thomas Becon put it in the sixteenth century , it was a ‘ duty of children ’ whose parents were ‘ aged and fallen into poverty , so that they are not able to live of themselves , or to get their living by their own industry and labour ’ , to work and care for them and ‘ provide necessaries for them , ‘ just as in their own childhoods ‘ their parents cared and provided for them . ’ |
| 5 | The war boar is a dangerous beast whose charge puts him in the same category as a fully armoured , lance-armed knight . |
| 6 | Its position beside Musgrave Street police station puts it in the same difficult position as many old buildings beside security installations . |
| 7 | Modern zoologists put it in the Wallacean sub-region along with its adjacent islands , together with the Philippines ( except Palawan and the Calamian group of islands ) and the Lesser Sundas from Lombok to Timor . |
| 8 | As David Lodge put it in the first issue of The Birmingham Magazine : |
| 9 | And coach Bill Calcraft , a lock in Australia 's 1984 Grand Slam-winning team , agrees : ‘ If we can get promotion , and it 's a big if because this season only one club goes up , I do believe the club , with all its superb facilities and tradition , can attract the players to put it in the top flight again . ’ |
| 10 | This in turn puts him in the right frame of mind to be helped to overcome the problem once and for all . |
| 11 | Dumbo puts me in the front passenger seat and seats himself behind . |
| 12 | Did you know that Queen Victoria put him in the same class as Landseer ? |
| 13 | Shedding their skin puts them in the same position as Jane Austen 's heroes , prematurely aged by the treacherous sun of the West Indies . ’ |
| 14 | As Palmerston put it in the mid-19th century , ministers , especially the Prime Minister , must be able to defend themselves in Parliament daily , ‘ and in order to do this they must be minutely acquainted with all the details of the business of their offices , and the only way of being constantly armed with such information is to conduct and direct those details themselves ’ . |
| 15 | Charles was relieved that the information put her in the clear ; she had been telling the truth . |