Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] to put the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
| 2 | We were fortunate in finding Longmans ( India ) interested in the project , and with the aid of a subsidy for each book were able to put the price as low as eight annas a copy , and in return for the subsidy were able to hand over a sizeable number of each book for distribution to the Army , Navy and RAF . |
| 3 | They did so all the more readily because they were not expected to adopt any ideological formula but , rather , were able to put the stamp of their own opinions on the policy of a Party which had no set position of its own . |
| 4 | Although when regressed one does not go back to the immediate past life , then the one before it , then the one before that and so on , by the time Martin had experienced regression six times it was possible to put the lives in chronological order so that we could try and see if there was any lesson to be learnt from them . |
| 5 | Furthermore , Adenauer was prepared to put the question of national unity on the back burner as a result of his clear moral choice for the values of the West . |
| 6 | ‘ I was careful to put the bleach in the front of the trolley and the meat at the back , ’ he explained . |
| 7 | ‘ At the same time she knew that there were outstanding mortgages on the house amounting to at least £36,000 and she was reluctant to put the family home at risk by borrowing more money which would virtually leave them without an equity . |
| 8 | Highlander was able to put the YCCC in touch with other community groups in the mountains which had a wide variety of similar experiences of toxic waste dumping in their communities . |
| 9 | And yet the Festival proved not to be the beginning of the new civically planned and visually gayer Britain of which it held out a promise , but the swan-song of the era in which it was patriotic to put the community first and all pull together , as directed . |
| 10 | Blake is satisfied that the threat of a formal sample was enough to put the wind up the company . |
| 11 | They had agreed it was best to put the coins on the market one by one ; a flood of rare coins , some without provenance and others with the sort of provenance which would interest the police , would be bound to arouse suspicion . |
| 12 | He was eager to put the past in order , and to make his peace with those who had once been his contemporaries . |