Example sentences of "put [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | POLICE leaders have put off a warning to Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke that they might seek full trade union rights , including the option to strike . |
| 2 | THE BELGIAN government has put off a decision on whether to stump up cash for the nuclear plant being built by France at Chooz — a finger of France sucking into Belgian territory . |
| 3 | Hospital nurses opposing a plan to make them wear their own clothes for work have put off a decision to take action in protest . |
| 4 | The administration 's minority party has put off a decision whether to withdraw support for Prime Minister Albert Reynolds . |
| 5 | He said , arriving , ‘ The Doria 's put off a skiff with a message . |
| 6 | More than half say they would n't be put off a woman if they knew she carried condoms ; only 17% would regard it as a turn-off . |
| 7 | Although in non-stop pain , he has put off the operation until the Formula One championship season is over . |
| 8 | When Gandalf says to Frodo of his wound on Weathertop , ‘ your heart was not touched , and only your shoulder was pierced ; and that was because you resisted to the last ’ , he may be making a moral statement ( Frodo was rewarded ) or a practical one ( he dodged , called out , struck back , put off the Ringwraith 's aim ) . |
| 9 | WOULD the last one out , please put off the lights ! |
| 10 | Then his sister told him gently that schools like his did n't have bells , a bell would lower the tone of the place and put off the parents of prospective pupils . |
| 11 | They also appealed to holidaymakers not to be put off the resort by the disaster . |
| 12 | Whether they themselves are therefore put off the idea or they think their clients will object , is hard to say , as very few bureaux seem to have given the system a try . |
| 13 | Thus students living in poor accommodation , often isolated and without external support , become disillusioned with the experience of teaching , and put off the idea of teaching in a rural area where qualified teachers are needed most . |
| 14 | They were also put off the idea of French food by smelling garlic on the stagehands ' breath . |
| 15 | Er so , when I want to create a directory called put off the root directory . |
| 16 | I want to create a directory called put off the root directory . |
| 17 | Stabbed policeman ‘ wo n't be put off the job' |
| 18 | She has put off the meeting with him and it is not surprising that the two different characters clash . |
| 19 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
| 20 | Once the check-outs had been completed the pilots and planes moved to Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego where they were put aboard the USS Yorktown for the carrier filming . |
| 21 | In my judgment , the question has only to be put for the answer to be apparent . |
| 22 | The court stated obiter that there is no reason why a section 2(2) notice should not be issued to the applicant after he had been charged , but this statement was accompanied by the clear and crucial corollary that the person who had been charged would have first to be cautioned and questions could only be put for the paragraph 16.5 purposes . |
| 23 | When he had put about a mile between him and the dragon he stopped and collapsed against a tree , which then spoke to him . |
| 24 | The Spaniards had put about a cover story that the fleet assembled at Cadiz was being made ready to sail to Sicily and Ormonde was forbidden to go near the port ; he was to be picked up from Corunna . |
| 25 | That , in fact , er there are three provinces who are already now contributing more than anyone else that , they feel that the churches should go forward to try and raise the minister 's to what was proposedly that the assembly last year , they should be paid thirteen thousand two hundred but in order to do that see another six hundred thousand pound raised and it is likely that this will be put as a challenge to the churches at assembly . |
| 26 | And sales at one of the country 's biggest marts could create traffic chaos , with more than 1,000 steers having to be put through a race at Borderway mart to check ear tags , causing traffic to back up onto the motorway . |
| 27 | A second squadron , B , would be formed at Kabrit from fresh volunteers and put through a crash training programme . |
| 28 | In fact , George Every , then a lay brother at Kelham , with whom I had started a correspondence , told me later that Eliot , while praising some individual points , had said that the general impression it gave was of material being put through a machine and coming out the other side more or less as it was before . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've put through a call to London and I 'm waiting for them to ring me up . |
| 30 | I 've put through a request for all the technical libraries to run the Jenner reference list through their own databanks at the end of each day . |