Example sentences of "put to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first flight you make on any day is really the only one where your judgement is put to the test . |
| 2 | This can be put to good use in soaring conditions as a means of getting into the lift when cruising at a high speed . |
| 3 | This can not be resolved by distancing , repression and short cuts … the specificity and individuality of the observer are ever present and must therefore be acknowledged , explored and put to creative use ( my emphasis ] . |
| 4 | Both were landless men who depended on being allowed to pasture their milk-cows on the water-meadows down at Ballechin , and as Cameron caught the drift of their intent talk and occasional sardonic laughter , he wondered again how many names had been put to faces during yesterday 's hurly-burly . |
| 5 | Without tools , when the original Shakers landed , they would have been hard put to it to manage . |
| 6 | So far it has not been put to the test in service . |
| 7 | He could not anticipate — that his work would be put to an entirely different use , let alone tell a story . |
| 8 | The old money-lender with her ‘ Jewish ’ interest rates is to be murdered because her life is worthless and her hoarded wealth can be put to good use ; when the unimportant deed is done the doer will launch himself into something that really matters , a large-scale philanthropic exercise . |
| 9 | Dostoevsky also calls him his ‘ real hero ’ and his ‘ new hero ’ , and I think he might not object to ‘ antihero ’ if the suggestion were put to him . |
| 10 | But the question which struck at the heart of the matter was put to Sir Geoffrey on 5 July in the Commons by Jim Sillars , the Scottish Nationalist . |
| 11 | Unlike other single women , Elaine can not stay out late at night : she has to be home in time to be put to bed by a nurse . |
| 12 | Yesterday , Mr Ward 's account was put to Paul Spicer , a Lonrho director . |
| 13 | It is wholly unreal for anyone to imagine that such an issue , which he merely describes as ‘ adjusting the democratic framework to suit new circumstances ’ can be so lightly put to one side . |
| 14 | The figures are due for revision before being put to David Mellor , Minister for Health , next month . |
| 15 | ‘ A proposition was put to Owen , and he is considering it , ’ the source said . |
| 16 | The motion which has been put to the clubs , and backed by an emotive letter from the president , will be proposed by senior life member Ken Harris . |
| 17 | The planning officer is an employee of the council who handles the application up to the point when it is put to the planning committee , made up of elected councillors , for a decision . |
| 18 | When the US army discovered that Silver had been engaged in research work ( on Whitman ) he was put to personally testing the durability of uniforms , in sub-zero and boiling temperatures , artificial rain storms in laboratories and real tropical conditions in Florida : he soon became an assistant director of this project and stayed there for two years . |
| 19 | I think it 's very sad , to have a terribly negative view put to you when you are in a vulnerable situation . |
| 20 | A dozy , family-run business which faced bankruptcy in 1985 , had been put to rights by the application of sound Thatcherite principles . |
| 21 | STEVEN SMITH 'S new rapport with the unpredictable Brook Street Picnic will be put to the test later this month , when he begins the tour of shows in Washington , New York and Toronto on the North American Fall Circuit , writes Genevieve Murphy . |
| 22 | When the Saatchi spokeswoman 's explanation of the sales was put to one New York dealer , his response was crude but succinct : ‘ They 're full of shit . |
| 23 | And then there is the hypothesis put to the A 's Tony La Russa , the lawyer-manager and quiet ringmaster of what can be a wild Oakland circus troupe : ‘ What do you do if Will Clark ( the Giants big-hitting first baseman ) comes to the plate with the bases loaded ? ’ |
| 24 | Other public institutions were put to the sword elsewhere . |
| 25 | Any continuing contributions received will be put to this reserve but active fund-raising for the Appeal has now ceased . |
| 26 | The national interest lies in all the nation 's resources being put to the most advantageous use possible . |
| 27 | The last stanza of ‘ Exequy ’ is a summing-up of the kind of rituals described by Frazer in Adonis Attis Osiris where in the declining year the representative of the year-spirit was put to death , often by burning . |
| 28 | But on many occasions you 've got talented people who just do n't fill the job specifications , but whose qualities , put to an objective agreed by everybody , are valuable beyond measure . |
| 29 | But Finniston still harbours the belief that the wealth of experience he acquired during his ten years at British Steel could have been put to better service for the nation . |
| 30 | These beliefs were put to the test when United Biscuits was obliged to close one of its main factories in Liverpool . |