Example sentences of "[was/were] put down [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHEN wood shavings were put down on the floor in the Key Street post room it all proved too much for , left , and . |
| 2 | Thirty of farmer Alan Gerrard 's brutes were put down after the weekend attack on Beverley Hurst , nine . |
| 3 | A further three were put down by a vet . |
| 4 | There were serious disturbances in Beirut and Tripoli which were put down by the new Lebanese administration with the help of French troops . |
| 5 | The anti-Hoxha demonstrations were put down by the police and troops with increasing force , and on Feb. 23 it was officially reported that two demonstrators and a policeman had been shot dead when a crowd reportedly tried to storm the Tirana military academy ( the opposition claimed up to 30 dead , and attributed some of the shooting to clashes between rival pro- and anti-reform factions within the army ) . |
| 6 | The riots were put down by the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , with support from Serbia , in an apparent rebuttal of the Croatian authorities ; observers noted that this was the first time that the JNA , whose officer corps was dominated by ethnic Serbs , had been used to put down violence outside Serbia itself . |
| 7 | However , if all the jobs a housewife does were put down in a job description people might think twice before saying this . |
| 8 | This was put down to a ‘ Fichtesterben ’ , or progressive spruce death , but a year later it appeared in other species too , such as beech , oak and the mountain ash , and foresters grew alarmed . |
| 9 | But after the first year , everyone who came below twentieth in the class was put down to the B stream . |
| 10 | The change was put down to the fact that , since the act was only brought in in 1986 , it had taken time for its effects to come through . |
| 11 | The arrival in the town of what was described as ‘ massive police reinforcements ’ was put down to the possibility of demonstrations by blacks against Wullie Robertson 's Young Conservatives . |
| 12 | He says we were told one of them was very badly deformed — but we were never told why — I wondered if that was put down to the tests . |
| 13 | To drain the works in the soles of Fleming 's Level , a pumping and winding sump was put down at the intersection with the cross-cut and it is believed that power for this was by hand . |
| 14 | Er , what I would like to propose the erm a a that resolution two of course , was put down at the time it had to be put down er , and is clearly going to be affected by , that it happened at the th the financial services in March and what I have suggested is that you might prefer this be a a a second resolution it is or and turn to the to add on the end of that resolution thus urging local churches to through their consultations with district treasurers and finance committee to increase their contributions to the Ministry of Mission Fund in nineteen ninety three in such a way that provincial commi , commitment may be increased by at least five percent over the nineteen ninety two . |
| 15 | Another £100.000 was put down for the National Union of Journalists , despite its clear and well-known policy of not investing in newspapers because of the inevitable conflict of interest in its role as champion of higher wages for journalists . |
| 16 | He was put down in the spare bedroom with the blinds closed against the sun , and Jim sat with him telling him stories until he fell asleep . |
| 17 | The uprising was put down by the action of the police and the army , and an unknown number of people were killed , among them Muhammadu Marwa Maitatsine , leader of the fanatical sect which was at the centre of the trouble . |
| 18 | In Virginia , dependence on a one-crop export trade led to trouble : the price of tobacco continued to fall after Charles 's restoration , and thus was the main reason for Bacon 's rebellion in 1675 , which was put down by the government of the colony before royal troops arrived from England . |
| 19 | There was a lot of short-pitched bowling , with a vast array of slips and gullies , but Gooch ( 8 ) survived a low catch to Inzamam off Akram , and Stewart ( 14 ) was put down by the same fielder at full stretch off the same bowler when 14 . |