Example sentences of "to be put [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is now acceptable to oppose discrimination against women and people with disabilities , but the issue of discrimination against Travellers needs to be put firmly on the agenda . |
| 2 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 3 | It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists . |
| 4 | When big investors get on the telephone they expect to be put through to the chairman , not ‘ lumbered into a PR-type department ’ . |
| 5 | Street declared in The Builder that Parker was expressing his personal views and not writing on behalf of the Oxford Architectural Society , and if Parker 's ‘ excessively antiquarian view of our own present duties were to be put forward as the real and right ground for us to work upon , I , for one , should have very little hope of the ultimate success of our course ’ . |
| 6 | Under Resolution No.6 to be put forward at the AGM the directors propose that the authority should be extended so that it applies for five years from the date of this year 's AGM . |
| 7 | Each leaf , with its own Pledge for the Planet will be pinned on a giant ‘ tree ’ which is to be put up outside the summit building in Rio de Janeiro . |
| 8 | Nonetheless the bench will in practice expect consent orders , orders for custody and access and injunctive orders to have been prepared beforehand , and to be put up to the bench for approval . |
| 9 | If duty were to be put up in the budget , then the distortion of the market would be greater than it already is . |
| 10 | This system will sterilise and detoxify contaminated urban sewage sludge so that it is a suitable product for use as a fertiliser ( a large percentage of British sludge is too contaminated to be put safely on the land as a fertiliser ) or for use as a proteinaceous supplement for animal feed . |
| 11 | Moreover , educated young Catholics were likely to be put off by the party 's style of opposition , which could often appear even more obsessed with sectarian symbolism than the Unionists were . |
| 12 | Manville refused to be put off by the objections . |
| 13 | When you look inside try not to be put off by the decor — if it 's hideous , you can always redecorate . |
| 14 | There is no need to be put off by the name , for in fact database systems are simply computerised filing cabinets . |
| 15 | BEER enthusiasts have been told not to be put off by the ‘ folky ’ image of Darlington 's Small Beer Festival . |
| 16 | After the news of the secret negotiations between the government , Leyland Vehicles and GM broke in February 1986 , the government allowed alternative bids to be put in for the different parts of the firm . |
| 17 | It seems that matters have fallen behind schedule and need to be put back on the rails . |
| 18 | If the ban is approved , the contractor would have the chance to reapply in two years to be put back on the list . |
| 19 | We have a right to ask for it to be put back to the state it was in . ’ |
| 20 | So you 'd like to be put down on the ballot to be approved do you ? |
| 21 | Trollope nearly loses control on the subject of The Plumber , a man ‘ doubtless aware that he is odious … to be put down with the tax-gatherer as being as certain as fate and as inexorable . ’ |
| 22 | When , at the end of July and the beginning of August 1943 , four RAF raids practically wiped out the centre of Hamburg — Germany 's second city — in fire-storms , killing some 40,000 people , rumours spread that unrest had had to be put down by the police and SA or Wehrmacht , and that there was a ‘ November mood ’ — an allusion to the revolutionary mood of November 1918 — in the Reich which would rise up against the unbearable air raids . |
| 23 | I know my objectivity as a reviewer is going to be put sorely to the test , because so far I 've loved every one that I 've laid my hands on . |
| 24 | The Army and Navy have moved significantly down the path towards contracting out and have very few contracts left to be put out for the first time . |
| 25 | The Commandos in the trench with me did not seem to be put out by the noise and the explosions caused by the Moaning Minnies ; no doubt they had heard it all before . |