Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adv] put " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kings were not simply put on their thrones by churchmen ; they were heirs and successors of barbarian chiefs ; they ruled by force and fear not by ideals ; the fact of politics not the ideals of churchmen were the stuff of their lives . |
| 2 | Can my hon. and diplomatic Friend assure us that these important diplomatic communications were not ultimately put to any ignoble use ? |
| 3 | From these few examples , it was obvious that the theoretical principles related to the spread of infection were not always put into practice . |
| 4 | Democratic Russia itself , at a press conference on Sept. 10 , warned that it would go over to the opposition if economic reform programmes were watered down and the former nomenklatura were once more put in command . |
| 5 | Others were more quickly put to use . |
| 6 | Some of the Prince 's friends were also somewhat put out at having their cosy relationship altered by the distraction of a young wife . |
| 7 | Although the troubles were as easily put down as their precursors they formed part of a traditional pattern of protest which only disappeared some two hundred years later . |
| 8 | It was rather strangely put , he thought . |
| 9 | The argument against having a special regime of rules to regulate the activities of government which are not peculiarly governmental was most famously put by the eminent Victorian jurist , A. V. Dicey . |
| 10 | She was obviously very put out . |
| 11 | I thought that I would have a go at getting a pilot 's course , which I did — and was soon sharply put in my place . |
| 12 | Unlike many countries that pull themselves apart , Sri Lanka was not artificially put together . |
| 13 | When she returned voluntarily from Canada last February , Bambi was not just put in solitary . |
| 14 | Sir Edmund was not easily put off . |
| 15 | He refused , but Garivald , who was not unreasonably put out , resorted to simony , and became bishop for forty days . |
| 16 | Clive Greenacre was not only put out when his agoraphobic wife started to express her anger about his callous behaviour , but also amazed by the sexual demands she then started to make on him . |
| 17 | Only at the French chateau of Montagu House in Whitehall ( 1859 ) , where he owed a particular allegiance to his great patron the Duke of Buccleuch and was ever hard put to please his Duchess , was he again truly still at the height of his powers . |
| 18 | He liked some music but generally was n't musical and was always slightly put off to find himself in the company of those who were . |
| 19 | After 1979 the ‘ monetarist ’ theory was more boldly put into practice . |
| 20 | I was also rather put off by the fact I had inadvertently climbed to the summit of Cairn Gorm from the restaurant at the top of the chairlift one drizzly afternoon years ago . |
| 21 | Reports at the turn of the year 1942–3 referring in the usual glowing terms of undiminished confidence of the people in ‘ its beloved Führer ’ and claiming that ‘ the person of the Führer was as always put beyond criticism ’ had been speaking in the conventional exaggerations of the regime 's apparatchiks . |
| 22 | I thought this was quite neatly put , indeed rather amusing . |