Example sentences of "[adv] put it [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So to put it another way you could say in a typical year we would receive about twenty thousand complaints and enquiries about shopping . |
| 2 | He lacked a driving force , though Constance was not sophisticated enough to put it that way . |
| 3 | If you invested a pound on a horse , then the amount of money you 'd expect to get back would depend on the odds that that horse was offered at , but if you confined yourself to horses that had a reasonable chance of winning , say , the sort of horses that tend to be offered at odds of , say , six or seven to one or better , then your average rate of return might be nearer ninety per cent than thirty per cent , so putting it one way betting a pound a week on the horses is a slower way of losing your money than betting a pound a week on football pools , but football pools gives you a much greater chance of winning an absolutely astonishing sum of money . |
| 4 | And the silly part of it is the milkman always puts it that side where you open the door , instead of this side . |
| 5 | Erm and those are the ones which are described er qualitatively put it that way . |
| 6 | The strip is easy to apply , simply put it white side down on the squares to be corrected and rub gently but firmly with a ball point pen on the back of the strip . |
| 7 | Well put it that bit then in there . |
| 8 | Well put it this way , if we were compelled to find the savings they ask , that is the only way we could do it . |
| 9 | Well put it this way |
| 10 | Well put it this way she 's nothing like Mick . |
| 11 | Well put it this way |
| 12 | And they sometimes put it that way round . |
| 13 | Carl Kester of Harvard Business School usefully puts it another way in a recent book , ‘ Japanese Takeovers : the global contest for corporate control . ’ |