Example sentences of "be put on [noun] " in BNC.

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1 All prisoners serving a year or more will be put on licence when released and supervised up to the three-quarter point of their sentence and , for some sex offenders until the end of their sentence ;
2 Someone who used bad language , for example , or refused to work , pretended sickness , or climbed over a fence instead of using the official entrance ( or , what is more likely , exit ) was deemed DISORDERLY ; he could be put on bread and water for forty-eight hours and other privileges were stopped .
3 A few samples can , with advantage , be put on test to assess those aspects which the development chemist recognises as being the most likely to give problems .
4 THE European Community has 12 months in which to achieve a breakthrough to full economic and monetary union or the whole project may have to be put on ice until the end of the next decade .
5 If Gibbs does not finally catch up with Horan and Little , any talk of a resurgence in Welsh fortunes will have to be put on ice .
6 The failure to gain the consent of opposition parties and the improvement in the situation led to the dropping of the second proposal in 1934 and the Cabinet then decided that the matter should be put on ice unless the position deteriorated and immediate legislation was thought necessary .
7 Then , on 8 May , the Secretary of State suddenly announced out of the blue that the advertising of that post was to be put on ice .
8 Sadly , the bar had closed and the staff had long since departed so the celebration pint of bitter had to be put on ice for another day .
9 Worst affected is your love life , so expect dates to be cancelled or romantic liaisons to be put on ice .
10 And he has written to Home Secretary Michael Howard demanding to know if plans for the category B inmate jail will be put on ice for a second time .
11 He has written to Home Secretary , Michael Howard , demanding to know if plans for the category B inmate jail will be put on ice for a second time .
12 IMPROVEMENTS to Darlington 's railway museum look likely to be put on ice because of town hall cash shortages .
13 IMPROVEMENTS to Darlington 's railway museum look likely to be put on ice because of cash shortages .
14 But major projects earmarked for the area have had to be put on ice .
15 Pyle asked if a ‘ block ’ could be put on Laing boarding any flight at all , even internal .
16 Pressures began to be put on employers to recognise and negotiate with unions .
17 After being acquitted Livingstone admitted possessing a five-inch knife as an offensive weapon on a separate occasion and agreed to be put on probation for twelve months .
18 Legislation to allow Nazi war criminals to be put on trial passed its first reading in the Commons .
19 The prisoner was forbidden all human rights , to communicate with his family , to be represented by a lawyer , to protest against the torture , or even to be put on trial .
20 is the knowledge that if er , we 'd been talking about them two hundred and fifty years ago we 'd be put on trial and probably burnt to death .
21 Speaking at the ceremony on Nov. 4 , 1989 , to mark the inauguration of his third term in office President Sassou-Nguesso announced that former head of state Gen. Joachim Yhombi Opango , would be put on trial with three senior Army officers and three civilians in connection with a rebellion in July 1987 [ see pp. 35371 ; 36199 ] .
22 ( The Iraqis had themselves declared on Sept. 24 that Bush was to be put on trial in mid-October for war crimes against Palestinians through US co-operation with the " Zionist entity " and for killings in Panama and Grenada . )
23 The Hrawi government announced that he would be prevented from leaving Lebanon and would be put on trial charged with mutiny and the misuse of public funds .
24 In the days following Ershad 's downfall pressure mounted for him to be put on trial .
25 No agreement would be signed which did not " stipulate concrete measures aimed at preventing the repetition of the genocidal regime " , and the " Pol Potist ringleaders " must be put on trial .
26 Speakers from an opposition tripartite coalition of the Democratic , Social Democratic and Republican Parties and the Union of Independent Trade Unions of Albania ( UITUA ) called for an end to communist influence in the media and the Foreign Ministry , and for top party officials to be put on trial .
27 Pressure will also be put on Serbia , widely seen as backing the Bosnian Serbs in the conflict .
28 As a general rule , nothing should ever be put on gold leaf .
29 Once upon a time he had instant access to anyone in the office ; now he would telephone and be put on hold .
30 Williams continued to gather public support throughout 1954 , ( also the year that Learie Constantine returned after 30 years in England ) , and it seems that he was now consolidating his position in preparation for a decisive political move , but while he was still involved with the Caribbean Commission in an apolitical capacity , this move would be put on hold .
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