Example sentences of "put [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.

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1 The Officer was put on to a stretcher .
2 Subsequent Cabinet and Service Department screening in Whitehall reduced the figure to £4,700 million which was the most that the Treasury believed the economy could bear without being put on to a war footing .
3 This is then drawn full-size and traced on to acetate film which is put on to a bed of clay covering the board .
4 Knitters can choose from a whole range of techniques and their selection will be put on to a video , exclusive to them .
5 These exercises , which are easily and quickly generated , can be presented to your students either as printed worksheets — you will be provided with the answers on a separate sheet — or can be put on to a floppy disk so that a student or group of students can work on screen .
6 ‘ Its figures only measure waiting time from the day a patient is put on to a consultant 's in-patient or day case waiting list .
7 She was put on to a life-support machine , which her parents , Mike and Jackie , were told would be her constant companion .
8 She was put on to a life-support machine , which her parents , Mike and Jackie , were told would be her constant companion .
9 Fascinating though they are , thoughts of Classic confrontations to come were put on to the back-burner by another dazzling performance from Zilzal , who stamped himself as one of the outstanding milers of recent years with a thrashing of the French champion , Polish Precedent .
10 A thick lagging jacket should be put on to the hot water tank .
11 If we return to the example of our widget-making factory after the introduction of the new production process , with half its workforce put on to the labour market ( or , putting it more bluntly , sacked ) , then many of them are likely to be eligible for unemployment benefit .
12 Accountants logging on in London see their own set of accounts , but all of the data is put on to the same database that New York and Hong Kong are using . ’
13 Because you know money-wise because we were not content to sit back and see er schemes being introduced that , which were going to act as a deterrent to er our members er being able to earn wages er on incentives and so therefore erm what happened was that we agreed that the consultants er head personnel manager would come down and talk to each group of people who were being put on to the incentive scheme , one , in order that he go over everything with them in regard to its application , and two , then answer any practical questions er where our members may find that there could be difficulties .
14 All four disks were put on to the printer 's hard disk and the images were fine-tuned before the final film and plates were made .
15 They were put on to the French market one at a time with intervals between the sales .
16 Mostly , he supposed , he was happy because she was going to be the most startling singer he had put on to the Hochhauser stage .
17 The scallops would be put on to the seabed after about two years growth in special nets , and grown on for a further two years before harvesting .
18 The Greater York authorities therefore looked for a widening of the options available , er , in Greater York , and those that have seen the Greater York study , and it is a document that we 've put in to the examination will see that there was a fundamental full scale wide ranging er assessment er of all the options er open er within the er Greater York er area and they are er set out erm in pages three er and four of N Y five .
19 The popularity is put down to a good flavour — with its tight creamy head it 's similar to Tetley 's — the lack of any other light bitters in Nicholson 's range that compete with it and a slight price advantage of around five pence .
20 This was put down to a ‘ Fichtesterben ’ , or progressive spruce death , but a year later it appeared in other species too , such as beech , oak and the mountain ash , and foresters grew alarmed .
21 The station had a shaky launch in January losing two million viewers in its early weeks and the increases are put down to a revamped style and change of presenters .
22 If this were an isolated case , it might simply be put down to an individual health authority overreacting to public embarrassment .
23 Even in the western Ukraine , far away from Chernobyl , headaches and sleeping troubles are put down to the disaster .
24 Although the night-time itching has been put down to the nocturnal habits of the mite , it is interesting that for the first few weeks of infestation , when the mites are presumably just as active , there are often no symptoms at all .
25 In the beginning , all carp were streamlined , torpedo-shaped fish , and any variation in girth relative to length ( apart from the difference between mature males and females ) could be put down to the quality of the food supply .
26 How true the tale of this lemming population might be is beyond verification ; certainly a great deal of the monastic retelling of it could be put down to the strong regional bias of Northumbrian biographers against the strange races of the deep south .
27 Red and white signs , showing an izard 's head , are the only indication that you are entering it , the izard being a sort of chamois native to the Pyrenees which is now doing well there again after having earlier been hunted almost out of existence — its survival has been put down to the First World War , when men turned to killing one another and the animals had an armistice which enabled them to breed again .
28 But after the first year , everyone who came below twentieth in the class was put down to the B stream .
29 The change was put down to the fact that , since the act was only brought in in 1986 , it had taken time for its effects to come through .
30 She hoped the hectic flush would be put down to the exertion of bending nearly double .
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