Example sentences of "[modal v] put their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thinks that justice jurors should put their personal interest to one side . |
| 2 | In February 1983 I announced in the House of Commons that health authorities should put their ancillary services out to tender to see whether they would get best value from private or in-house organizations . |
| 3 | Perhaps the water companies , before embarking on a policy of compulsory metering , should put their own house in order first . |
| 4 | The Lord Willington looked the sort of place into which dishonest rascals might put their inconvenient relations in order to get them out of the way : uncles with the DTs , incontinent aunts , senile grandads , and cousins who 'd been odd since they were born . |
| 5 | If they could put their private patients into the private wards of the hospitals where they were already serving as NHS consultants , the organisation of their lives became infinitely easier . |
| 6 | They 've been around along time , however , and there are those , Gavin Friday included , who would put their meandering career down to a Dublin penchant for beer , bars and general untogetherness . |
| 7 | If they do so , however , this would put their own nationals at a competitive disadvantage . |
| 8 | Halley and his successors at the Royal Greenwich Observatory would surely have been fascinated to learn of the unexpected uses to which astronomers of the late 20th century would put their solar observations . |
| 9 | If we ask people to rank in order the six goals listed earlier , approximately 60 per cent of the workforce will put their highest value on relationships at work and home and not on advancement or achievement in a career sense , unlike top managers who place relatively much less emphasis on relationships . |
| 10 | HUNDREDS of fun runners will put their best foot forward tomorrow in memory of tragic Merseyside youngster Vicki Bayliss . |
| 11 | It is gon na be the second room for the police and by moving one door we can put their two rooms together and you 've got access to the toilets , cloakrooms and all the necessary things , so without very much expenditure at all on anybody 's back , we 've actually created the section within this building . |
| 12 | The women can put their new-found building skills into practice at the new Broadway complex . |