Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun prp] put [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself . |
| 2 | Or , as Bernard Mandeville put it , in his usual ambivalent , ironic manner : " it is manifest , that in a Free Nation , where Slaves are not allowed of , the surest wealth consists in a multitude of laborious poor … " |
| 3 | Dr Rosalind Hursthouse puts it succinctly : ‘ Unmarried . |
| 4 | The bookmakers clearly believe Salsabil has the speed to win the 1,000 Guineas , William Hill putting her in at 16-1 for the Newmarket Classic . |
| 5 | MacArthur deemed it vital that ‘ if and when the Japanese are permitted an army that it not be run by the ‘ old crowd ’ and in the old way but that , as Colonel Babcock put it , be a ‘ democratic army ’ . |
| 6 | To the right of our view , the lawn sloped up a gentle embankment to where the summerhouse stood , and it was there my father ’ s figure could by seen , pacing slowly with an air of preoccupation — indeed , as Miss Kenton puts it so well , ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
| 7 | In fact , I can describe his manner at that moment no better than the way Miss Kenton puts it in her letter ; it was indeed ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
| 8 | Like many other aspects of twentieth-century thought and culture , both modernism and postmodernism negotiate with the problem that ‘ we can know the real ’ , as Linda Hutcheon puts it , ‘ only through signs ’ , and , based on arbitrary relations between signifier and signified , language and sign may sheer away from the reality they seek to represent ( Hutcheon 1988 : 230 ) . |
| 9 | As Barney Hoskyns put it in his Prince : Imp of the Perverse — ‘ he is where all the desires of pop meet and tangle — their camp cupidon , their locus of signification . ’ |
| 10 | It 's no wonder that , as Steven Meisel puts it , many people in the industry are ‘ resentful of the money they earn ’ . |
| 11 | David Frost put it to the right hon. and learned Gentleman no less than three times that it would be an unfair burden on many people who are not rich if he were to carry out immediately his proposed taxation arrangements to pay for Beckett 's law — the abolition of the upper earnings limit for national insurance contributions and the 50 per cent . |
| 12 | It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon . |
| 13 | But Kevin Wilson scored a fine individual goal and Andy Williams put it beyond doubt . |
| 14 | David Dorn puts you in the picture |
| 15 | As David Tomlinson put it , ‘ We want to be charismatics not charismaniacs . ’ |
| 16 | January 25th , 1978 : Richard Gordon put us all off travelling abroad when he outlined some common holiday hazards and where to find them … |
| 17 | So many of the stories were wild exaggerations , inflamed by a number of factors — the ‘ culture contact ’ between rural and urban society , personal resentment ( particularly if two women were forced to share the same kitchen ) , the strangeness of the whole situation at the start of a frightening new war , or simply as Angus Calder put it the English tendency to confuse manners with morals . |
| 18 | And here 's an interesting thing I learned from the Independent on Sunday last weekend : as its correspondent David Lister put it , ‘ An international competition to find the best of the worst new verse has been wound up because poets on both sides of the Atlantic can no longer distinguish between ‘ good bad ’ poetry and ‘ bad good ’ poetry . ’ |
| 19 | As David Lodge put it in the first issue of The Birmingham Magazine : |
| 20 | As Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak puts it : ‘ Theoretical descriptions can not produce universals . |
| 21 | Suffering then becomes God 's megaphone , as C. S. Lewis puts it , not merely to nudge our personalities towards God , but to warn us that our lives are wholly unreal unless God actually enters into them . |
| 22 | Thus , as Richard Lewontin put it , ‘ it is then unnecessary to give a specifically adaptive reason for the extremely large antlers of deer ’ ( Box 1 ) . |
| 23 | Women were , as Eleanor Rathbone put it ‘ … an inarticulate race . |
| 24 | It offered , as Pat Thane put it , ‘ a pension for the very old , the very poor and the very respectable ’ with a qualifying age of 70 , a sliding scale income limit of £21 to £31 10s. per annum , and clauses purporting to exclude recipients of poor relief , those convicted of various offences , and aliens . |
| 25 | They went down at Colchester , an own goal from David Titterton put them behind after 7 minutes . |
| 26 | Collegians seemed to be heading for a shock win which would have ruined Western 's chances of a possible date with Lisnagarvey in tomorrow 's final when winger David Hutchison put them in front with a superb solo effort in the 20th minute . |
| 27 | As the Reverend David Davies put it in 1795 , " depriving the peasantry of all landed property has beggared multitudes " . |
| 28 | If they are ‘ mediators between clients and the wider state apparatus ’ , as Neil Thompson puts it , then it is vital their prejudices are challenged . |
| 29 | They never looked back after Neil Hodgson put them in the lead after 24 minutes , Joe Peel adding tow more before half time . |
| 30 | As Edward Pechter puts it , ‘ History does not tell us what the text is , because we decide what history is , and then put history into the text , rather than the other way round . ’ |