Example sentences of "[noun sg] put the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's usually just a ransom demand and then a longish gap to put the parents in a panic . ’ |
| 2 | Animal rights campaigners , the architects of the initiative , indicated their intention to put the issue before the electorate again . |
| 3 | Other nice touches are the ability to switch between English , French , Italian or Spanish prompts , and Amstrad 's intention to put the machine 's software up under Windows to simplify data transfer between PDA and desktop machine . |
| 4 | Heath was calling for a decisive mandate to put the unions in their place , but the most striking feature of the results is that they offered no party any decisive mandate whatever . |
| 5 | A question for the middlemen is the choice of which side to put the rope . |
| 6 | It is not illegal to carry out development without permission but the planning authority ( and only they ) can , if they so wish , take action to put the position back physically to what it was before the development took place . |
| 7 | She laughed softly in a bid to put the girl at ease . |
| 8 | Now it 's back to stroke play as Gordon Fairweather makes another bid to put the family name back on the trophy , . |
| 9 | She had made up her mind to put the past behind her . |
| 10 | WITH Justin Fashanu 's black tie do to look forward to on Saturday evening , this was just the result to put the Airdrie players in the party mood . |
| 11 | Although the official world championship did not start until 1950 , Hamilton has wisely used a broader brush with excellent effect to put the race in an accurate historical perspective . |
| 12 | Since then Honda has contributed Japanese production skills to Rover 's high-quality British workmanship to put the firm ahead of bigger rivals like American-owned Ford and Vauxhall , backed by General Motors . |
| 13 | As a result , the local authority issued two notices under section 9(1B) of the Act of 1957 ( as inserted by section 149 of the Housing Act 1980 ) requiring the defendant to put the house into proper repair . |
| 14 | The Bishop smiled encouragingly at Spruce in a kindly attempt to put the man at his ease . |
| 15 | In an attempt to put the house back in order , Paul drew up a list of jobs to be done and employed a local architect to oversee the work . |
| 16 | I note that my hon. Friend the member for East Lothian ( Mr. Home Robertson ) has moved to those Benches in an attempt to put the imbalance right . |
| 17 | A couple of dozen bales of fabric had been destroyed , partly by the fire and partly by the water that had been used by the fire brigade to put the fire out . |
| 18 | No wonder its coming puts the fear of God into the Philistines ! |
| 19 | Mr Loughran said last night : ‘ My girlfriend put the application in a few months ago . |
| 20 | Royal patronage put the seal of approval on the new form and the companies went to particular pains to arrange the Queen 's journeys . |
| 21 | The Hillsborough Relatives ' Association put the idea to football club bosses and a badge is planned as a permanent reminder of the April 1989 tragedy in which 95 people died . |
| 22 | A committee of the Irish Medical Association put the numbers of women using the contraceptive pill in 1978 as 48,000 ; and the Family planning Association saw 30,000 people in 1976 and more than 53,000in 1978 ( Whyte 1980 : 403–4 ) . |
| 23 | Do they want to become MPs for the money ( some , it seems hard to credit , apparently are dim enough to think so ) , for the glamour ( one glance at the crumpled dandruff-laden figure putting the question should disabuse them of that idea ) , for the influence ? |
| 24 | Epstein had one of the most important collections of African and Oceanic sculpture ever assembled in this country and introduced a number of contemporaries to non-European art ; most recent scholarship puts the beginning of his collecting activity in 1912 when it is documented but Gardiner places it in 1904 , ( i.e. before Derain and Picasso ) when Epstein was a penniless student in Paris . |
| 25 | Shipman puts the point uncompromisingly : |
| 26 | The figure put the knife at the Doctor 's throat . |
| 27 | Such an expressed intention puts the book into the ‘ holistic ’ category and might alarm many scientists that what is to follow might be some kind of woolly metaphysical vagueness . |
| 28 | Lamarck was eminent for his classification of invertebrates , and had in effect put the chain of being into motion , so that everything was moving slowly upwards , and creatures had not become extinct but had just changed , responding to their environment . |
| 29 | Norman Thomas , former Senior Chief HMI ( Primary ) and author of the ILEA review put the case elegantly , recently : |
| 30 | High winds and high drama off the west coast put the lasers and the darts to the test … sailing craft that is … designed by a boat firm in Banbury … and taken to the limit in their very own National Championships . |