Example sentences of "[be] put at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want to be put at ease . |
| 2 | Speech can actually improve if stammerers can be put at ease . |
| 3 | Mr Wallis said there was ‘ no way we want to see miners out of jobs ’ but PowerGen 's own survival would not be put at risk by limiting its range of suppliers . |
| 4 | There has to be the possibility that the politics can be put at risk by the aesthetics , or the relationship as well as each of its components will be inert . |
| 5 | The six Church leaders warned : ‘ Unless the dispute is resolved and a proper service is resumed as soon as possible , we believe that people 's lives will increasingly be put at risk . ’ |
| 6 | Mr Fowler said there was no reason why businesses and jobs should be put at risk by workers called upon to strike when they had no dispute with their employer . |
| 7 | Police have refused to identify the 22-year-old clerk because her life could be put at risk . |
| 8 | The very landscape that creates the market for tourism and/or recreation may itself be put at risk in the absence of careful management . |
| 9 | I am advised that local authorities seeking simply to provide the public with access to a comprehensive range of artistic and literary materials will not be put at risk by this provision . |
| 10 | How could freedom of expression be put at risk merely by the Government 's saying to any one individual ( the Second Vice-President was here referring to foreign capitalist press owners ) that ‘ what you have said is of no relevance in this country and will stir up trouble and mar the peace ’ ? |
| 11 | It also means that other executives calculating the odds will most likely decide that their jobs , their friendship network , and their club affiliations will not be put at risk . |
| 12 | As any good control theorist ( Box 1981a ; Hirschi 1969 ; Johnson 1979 ) knows , even if people have a high stake in conformity , this will not act as a brake on their criminal behaviour if they perceive — quite rightly in the case of executives contemplating corporate crime — that this stake will not be put at risk by undertaking such a shady but profitable enterprise . |
| 13 | As the RSFSR can not be put at risk by being surrounded by non-obedient or independent and sovereign republics in Ukraine , Belorussia , Lithuania , Armenia , etc. , so the security of the USSR as a national state can not be put at risk by non-obedient and sovereign countries in east central Europe ( and possibly elsewhere ) . |
| 14 | As the RSFSR can not be put at risk by being surrounded by non-obedient or independent and sovereign republics in Ukraine , Belorussia , Lithuania , Armenia , etc. , so the security of the USSR as a national state can not be put at risk by non-obedient and sovereign countries in east central Europe ( and possibly elsewhere ) . |
| 15 | But the constitution 's separation of powers , or more accurately functions , must be observed if judicial independence is not to be put at risk . |
| 16 | Spain , Portugal , Ireland and Greece also oppose an early enlargement , albeit for rather different reasons : they fear that the current transfer of resources to them from the richer countries — above all , from Britain and Germany — might be put at risk , and have made it clear that their support for any growth in the size of the Community is contingent on their receipt of guaranteed levels of Cohesion payments . |
| 17 | An extrajudicial offer , even if backed up with assertions that it will not be improved upon , does not carry the same penalty in expenses and the pursuer and his advisers , confident of success , will not be put at risk on expenses by such an offer . |
| 18 | Indeed , the coal industry as a whole would be put at risk through premature shutdown of the opencast sector . |
| 19 | We must recognise that many people who earn relatively modest wages and who are essential to the rural economy will be the first to be put at risk by those proposals . |
| 20 | Is he aware that renationalising water would cost the taxpayer £8 billion and that the whole of this investment programme would be put at risk ? |
| 21 | They know that all that would be put at risk if there were the prospect of a Labour Government . |
| 22 | The British , however , were determined to make the most of any argument or " agreement " to protect their " independent " deterrent , especially as Macmillan — quite apart from any strategic calculation — insisted that his own political position and that of his government would be put at risk if Britain were deprived of this great-power symbol . |
| 23 | The coalition warns that federal and state regulations on environment , health and safety may be put at risk if the draft is agreed . |
| 24 | My view is that the community could be put at risk by some of these prisoners . |
| 25 | The parents of murdered council worker Anna McGurk say more lives will be put at risk after the Government refused to hold an inquiry into bail procedures . |
| 26 | Holmes says that there should be no further sailings until the problem is sorted out : No one else should be put at risk . |
| 27 | But the Health Authority insists no-one will be put at risk , and that the plan is to actually IMPROVE services . |
| 28 | Doctors say people 's health could be put at risk from car pollution if a new road is built . |
| 29 | ‘ People ca n't be put at risk like this . |
| 30 | The health and safety of our children will be put at risk , as current surveys show definite links between traffic pollution and chest ailments such as asthma and the wildlife inhabiting the hedgerows will disappear . |