Example sentences of "[adj] to put the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when the rebels , crammed into a fiery and heated meeting in Lord's ' hallowed Long Room heard that president Dennis Silk was not prepared to put the full weight of the MCC behind the protest letter , the meeting voted overwhelmingly by 108-3 to force the authorities to call the full meeting . |
| 2 | It is clear that it will not be easy to put the new law into effect when it is adopted . |
| 3 | I regret the fact that the hon. Member for Livingston saw fit not to answer the challenge that I laid down to him , just as he has not answered any of the challenges that I have laid down to him today , and that he has also seen fit to put the hon. Lady , on her first outing today , into a rather difficult position . |
| 4 | Similar charitable schemes outside London were equally ineffective , yet still the COS and its associates refused to co-operate with local authorities in establishing larger schemes , despite the capacity and willingness of the latter to put the charitable funds to more effective use in such necessary activities as road-building . |
| 5 | No industry can stand still — and it would be foolhardy to put the agricultural clock back , or even try to stop progress . |
| 6 | In Teesside seats outside of the two where the Conservatives had famous victories , only Dr. Marjorie Mowlam won for Labour with a anti-Tory swing anything like that necessary to put the national outcome into hung parliament country . |