Example sentences of "[noun sg] put it [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Local Government Chronicle put it in its leading article of 1 November : ’ To introduce poll tax is a mistake , to bring in council tax is a disaster . ’ |
| 2 | A member of the Finance Houses Association put it to us that the development of consumer credit might be seen as having three phases : first , loans granted to buy tangible assets ; secondly , loans for intangibles such as holidays ; and finally , loans simply as loans . |
| 3 | As a peasant from the Kursk guberniia put it in 1922 : ‘ We are not for priests nor for the church , but if only the Comrades would give us a little of what they promise : they promise a school and Socialism , but our hands are still as empty as ever . ’ |
| 4 | As one social purity advocate put it in 1949 : ‘ the family is the yardstick to measure values by … and the stability of the family unit is of major importance to the health and welfare of the community ’ . |
| 5 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 6 | Very painstaking stratigraphical work put it beyond doubt that men had been contemporary with animals now extinct , and that human history must therefore go back long before the 4004 BC computed from Genesis . |
| 7 | Andrew Neil is very litigious for an editor ( ‘ Randy Andy Gets a Grandy ’ , you may remember , as The Sun put it in January ) , so although Pamella told me lots of … interesting things about him , I 'd better tread carefully . |
| 8 | Tim Renton , Minister for the Arts , has caused a storm by calling into question one of the main dogmas of British arts administration , the so-called arm's-length principle ‘ government funding through semi-independent institutions ’ , as Lord Keynes , the architect of the Arts Council put it in 1945 . |
| 9 | The fate awaiting someone pitched from his horse in such a place might be blood-poisoning , ‘ being dreadfully venom 'd by rolling in slake ’ , as William Hall put it in his nineteenth-century fen doggerel . |
| 10 | They are the ones who — as one such teacher put it to me — are over the hump but not over the hill . |
| 11 | As one teacher put it to me , ‘ on a bad day I have the feeling that I am struggling hard to do something that may not be worth doing at all ’ . |
| 12 | As one director put it at the time : ‘ I will not allow my social workers , one of whose core values is honesty , to go into people 's houses and behave in a fundamentally deceitful way ’ . |
| 13 | The burden of proof lies with the EC federalists to show why the EC would not become like twelve Quebecs , as the author put it to Jacques Delors at a private meeting in Rome in November 1990 . |
| 14 | Recent estimates of the size of the slick put it at 2.5m-3m barrels of oil , not the 7m-barrel monster that had been feared . |
| 15 | Processes of each neuron put it into contact by synaptic junctions with other nerve cells ( Chiarodo et al. , 1970 ) or with sensory structures or effector organs . |
| 16 | ‘ For God 's sake put it in me . ’ |
| 17 | As Calum Davidson of Highlands & Islands Enterprise put it at a recent Open Forum conference , ‘ In the south of Scotland , in Silicon Glen , the Scottish workforce use their skills to produce IT equipment for their world . |
| 18 | Yet we felt we should give this fellow a chance , so my wife put it in a box and set it on top of the Aga . |
| 19 | There was an abundance of help ( ‘ both seen and unseen ’ as one elder put it to me ) ; there was constant anxiety about the weather ; there was joy of meeting old friends and making new ones ; there was the amazing efficiency , imperturbability and the reticence of the treasury ; and the true pleasure of finding things for people . |
| 20 | On leaving Powell Street he had lit a cigarette and within seconds a disembodied voice was booming at him to extinguish it and at the next station put it out the door on to the track . |
| 21 | As the Director of Leeds Polytechnic put it in 1971 : ‘ the very existence of the new polytechnics must signify the end of the general assumption that a liberal education is the only peak to which a higher education can aspire ’ . |
| 22 | This decision might have been regarded as one asserting the value of individual choice , but the Court put it on a rather different basis , saying that ‘ the implementation of the rights conferred on the employees by the Directive could not be dependent on the consent either of the transferor or of the transferee or of the employees themselves , wit |
| 23 | As the New York Daily News put it on the eve of the ballot : ‘ The Muck Stops Here ! ’ |
| 24 | As the Press Commission put it in 1977 ( p. 149 ) , ‘ Rather than saying that the press has other business interests , it would be truer to argue that the press has become a subsidiary of other interests ’ . |
| 25 | At Headingley , David Gower , thirty-three years old , became the youngest player to reach one hundred Test matches — or , as Don Mosey put it on the radio , he reached his hundredth Test in fewer games than anyone else . |
| 26 | The Colonel put it to Elisabeth that in the autumn of life , simple companionship was as much as one might expect , that a community of interests and a desire to see one 's partner pleased could turn what might otherwise be a lonely existence into well-being . |
| 27 | ( It was not until the 1939 conclave that all the cardinals were present at a papal election , due as one observer put it to " the advance of medicine and transport " . ) |
| 28 | As one observer put it after goalless draws with Castellon and Mallorca : ‘ Under Beenhakker , the little teams were slaughtered . ’ |
| 29 | This meant both that the BBC itself was not to ‘ editorialize ’ about the news ( or ‘ matters of public policy ’ , as the Postmaster-General put it in 1927 ) and that it kept strict control over access to the airwaves . |
| 30 | As one manager put it to me : ‘ None of the companies here is in the business of finding reasons not to pay legitimate claims . ’ |