Example sentences of "[been] put [adv prt] by the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The usual opposition has been put up by the sales contingent in the form of Jim Cavalier , the sales director .
2 Some critics link this with the sharp drop in foreign investment last year , though foreigners may also have been put off by the army 's killing of civilian demonstrators in Bangkok last May .
3 The Guardian of April 25 commented that the Hungarian government hoped that " the new law will provide the much-needed impetus for Hungary 's privatization programme and unlock the door to foreign investors who have so far been put off by the uncertainty over who owns what " .
4 Speaking against one member , one vote but also speaking against the half-hearted document that has been put out by the C E C.
5 The Commander embarked on one of his monologues on the supineness of the Tory government and the unregenerate socialism of the opposition , interrupted only by murmurs of approval from Fagg , who contributed the insight that rioting yobs in a northern city should have been put down by the Gurkhas .
6 The Bill is bound to be extensively amended before it reaches the statute book — at the time of writing 16 , amendments have been put down by the Government and 25 of them are of major importance — but it is believed that few if any of these amendments will affect settlements under which there is subsisting an interest in possession .
7 Now what we 're hearing today in in the document that 's been put in by the County is that their assertion is that since nineteen eighty the changing erm common agriculture policy has meant that more farm land in the county is coming into play for development than was the case in nineteen eighty erm not least of all through set aside and general policies of diversification .
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