Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] put down " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where it occurs much lower down a recovery is unlikely , and the accident should be put down either to the failure to maintain a safe airspeed at low altitudes , or to bad planning leading to a situation from which a crash is almost unavoidable . |
| 2 | Above all , the evening 's success should be put down to music which never ceases to delight by the sophistication of its continuity , by its sheer inspiration . |
| 3 | ‘ They should be put down . ’ |
| 4 | Owners Diane and Trevor Smith have agreed their pet should be put down . |
| 5 | Then poor wee Norrie Lamont had to go grovelling to the Germans — the same Norrie you heard saying all Krauts should be put down . |
| 6 | But despite polite utterances to me at private meetings , his public stance was to support the Foreign Office view that the Biafrans should be put down . |
| 7 | With dragging , your first colour should be put down with quite firm pressure and the top colour is then very lightly dragged across , as in ( f ) . |
| 8 | Mrs Field summoned the vet immediately , who said it was in a hopeless condition and should be put down at once . |
| 9 | But when the slogans appeared on the wall of two mosques and camel dung was dropped on the entrance of one of them they were very angry and came back to Owen and said that these were godless young and should be put down . |
| 10 | Can you remember the tre I nearly killed myself then , another thing you 'll learn about training is er that all should be put down and around but if it , if we were to go receptionist now you 've got the idea of key tasks anyway . |
| 11 | Sefton 's condition deteriorated and it was agreed he should be put down . |
| 12 | What about twinning , do you think that that 's of such a high priority that when council houses need repairs that those repairs should be put down on the ladder and said ‘ I 'm sorry , we ca n't deal with that because part of the money that we could allocate to council house repairs is being used for twinning and things like that ’ ? |
| 13 | It demonstrated , in language of royalist papers , that political opponents were ‘ bloody dogs ’ who must be put down . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the first flush of enthusiasm following these unprecedented claims there was a very strong tendency to identical dreaming exclusively with REM sleep , presuming that any lack of identification of dreaming with eye movements could be put down to experimental error . |
| 17 | A rising could be put down ; even though the BNA might dissolve into guerrilla bands it could not hope to take over the country . |
| 18 | She wondered how long ago it had begun and how many of her difficulties could be put down to whatever was the matter with her . |
| 19 | Erm if Z X equals Z Y is when that 's the maximum , then Z X times Z Y is either could be put down as Z X times Z X or Z Y times Z Y cos they 're both the same . |
| 20 | And even those could be put down to excessive grief at the loss of his wife . |
| 21 | It 's success could be put down to the hard sell . |
| 22 | More worryingly , many consumers said they did not like the taste , but much of that could be put down to the fact that many housewives had a narrow cooking repertoire with an average of only two turkey variations . |
| 23 | Or they could be put down by other people . |
| 24 | In addition , questions may be put down for written answer . |
| 25 | His advice to companies would be to try to make the costs of all types of accidents visible as a first step to targeting prevention , and the obvious way would be to put down the costs on to the already established cost centres within a company . |
| 26 | By and large it does not , and it certainly did not in Margaret 's case : she merely laughed all the more , and sang the taunting hymns of her new faith , about how tyrants would be put down from their thrones and the humble and the meek raised up . |
| 27 | If he had been born in Australia or Lithuania or even Manchester , Sheikh al Hassan could have ejected his minion on to the street in the sure knowledge that it would be put down to robust good humour . |
| 28 | She hoped the hectic flush would be put down to the exertion of bending nearly double . |
| 29 | He declined to postpone his visit to Argentina , expressing confidence that a military rebellion which had begun there on Dec. 3 [ see p. 37913 ] would be put down by the government of President Carlos Saúl Menem , whom he thanked for sending two Argentinian frigates to the Gulf . |
| 30 | But it was not the blind peasant rebellions themselves which frightened governments — they were short-lived and would be put down with fire and sword even by liberals , as in Sicily — but the mobilisation of peasant unrest behind a political challenge to the central authority . |