Example sentences of "by putting [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made sure he was not disturbed by putting on a red light outside his door — a signal to the staff that no-one should enter . |
| 2 | Elsewhere , Duncan and I have made an attempt to overcome these problems by putting forward a conceptual view of local politics which stresses the social relations involved , which highlights the importance of the locality , and which is based on the notion that local state institutions can be at once an agent of , and an obstacle to , central demands ( Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 ) . |
| 3 | When the Company entered the dynastic politics of southern India by putting forward a candidate of its own in the Carnatic , the French were soon able to drive him back to Trichinopoly and beseige him there . |
| 4 | This can be where the seller feels that it has the bargaining power and will be able to obtain a negotiating advantage by putting forward a document with negligible warranties . |
| 5 | The Act treats youth services as a continuum containing educational , recreational , advisory , supportive and therapeutic facilities by putting forward an open-ended catalogue of measures and initiatives which had become ‘ custom and practice ’ or indeed signs of good , innovatory practice in some parts of the country without having had legal backing . |
| 6 | One point is probable : Freemantle , not to mention Susanna Jennens , would have been reluctant to offend the Chauncys and other subscribers among the local gentry by putting forward the poems about Edgcote House . |
| 7 | Saunders partly deflects criticism of this sort by putting forward the dual state thesis as an ‘ ideal-type ’ , claiming that it is a research strategy rather than an account of reality , and that its aim is to develop a framework which suggests research questions and which can be evaluated analytically but not empirically . |
| 8 | By putting up a clergyman as a candidate , he could rely on the vote of hundreds of MAs who , sitting in their country rectories , could easily be persuaded by a judiciously worded letter that their old University was falling into the hands of infidels . |
| 9 | THE Canadian city of Winnipeg is planning to celebrate its connection with Winnie the Pooh , little known outside the esoteric realm of A A Milne specialists , by putting up a statue of the small bear . |
| 10 | There is perhaps an element of do-gooding about certain taxes and even today there are Treasury ministers who smugly claim they are doing the nation 's health a favour by putting up the levy on cigarettes , alcohol and petrol . |
| 11 | Really , he says , people do n't notice V A T so much , others believe income tax will have to take some of the strain , but not by putting up the rates , that would be too blatant . |
| 12 | And they have a bill , an bill of two hundred and fifty four pounds for the lighting , erm they think it 's an important community opportunity to have good entertainment on their doorstep , and they 've only been able to balance their proposed production this year , by putting up the price by fifty pence . |
| 13 | Once , at school , the girls had amused themselves by putting together the perfect woman , and Jane had been surprised when they chose her eyes , which were large and brown . |
| 14 | For example , in ‘ conceiving ’ of my car I literally create it in awareness by putting together an interior abstraction . |
| 15 | ‘ We have modified it a little already by putting back the starting time from 10 to 10.30 , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Bismarck followed it up by putting out a feeler to Great Britain , but nothing came of it . |
| 17 | Females are attracted only by the song , as can be demonstrated by putting out a loudspeaker broadcasting the tape-recording song of a male cricket : females of that species will approach it . |
| 18 | It was typical of a man , thought his guest with some impatience , that he had not utilised his time by putting out the cups and saucers , milk , sugar and so on , which would be needed . |