Example sentences of "[was/were] put [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they might have been relatively cheap to build they were expensive to maintain , a point that some experts were putting at the time . |
| 2 | ‘ Nor was it a high risk situation from my point of view , because for these were tried and tested individuals we were putting on the field . |
| 3 | These beliefs were put to the test when United Biscuits was obliged to close one of its main factories in Liverpool . |
| 4 | Even so , all her powers were put to the test when she flew to America to interview Madonna . |
| 5 | Heaven help her if that lie were put to the test ! |
| 6 | This last year those resources were put to the test and not found wanting . |
| 7 | It is astonishing that , when the facts were put to the Minister , he was unable to give the statistics on the number of offences involving knives and other weapons with which stabbings can be carried out . |
| 8 | which gives a very comprehensive assessment er of er the i in terms of the Department of Transport 's own manual of environmental appraisal , sets out er information on all the routes that we that were put to the public as part of the consultation we did in nineteen ninety one . |
| 9 | However , fresh proposals to amend the existing rent policy were put to the Bar Council in March . |
| 10 | The visitors stayed at Tynemouth , where finishing touches were put to the plan of campaign , one of the main objectives being to beat the notorious Newcastle offside trap . |
| 11 | Other public institutions were put to the sword elsewhere . |
| 12 | Men , women and children were put to the sword . ’ |
| 13 | That is what would happen if the matter were put to the House , but the Opposition seem to think that the matter could be resolved overnight . |
| 14 | ‘ Some would say that is a fanciful name for a place where heretics were put to the torch four centuries ago . ’ |
| 15 | Eventually she was appointed as the Mission 's Scottish Deputation Secretary where the full range of her gifts were put at the disposal of the churches . |
| 16 | I found this out at Dagenham , when I worked at Fords , the supply lorries used to come through the day and through the night with articles made in other factories , including bodies and wheels and these were put on the assembly line and routed through Fords to be assembled . |
| 17 | In March 1991 both children were put on the child protection register , E. because of physical abuse and C. because of suspicion of physical abuse . |
| 18 | But no treatment was forthcoming as 10 million were put on the dole , two million on food stamps and hundreds of thousands out on the streets . |
| 19 | Rand found that some firms were even trying to avoid bad publicity by cleaning up sites before they were put on the Superfund list . |
| 20 | And h Well , no , they were put on the wagons actually . |
| 21 | It is not uncommon to find the spaces still blank in early books , the scribe not having arrived before the books were put on the market . |
| 22 | A bitter and complex dispute was decided by the crown jurists in the interests of the foreros ( 1763 ) , and when the entailed lands of the nobility and the church estates were put on the market by the liberal legislation of the nineteenth century they purchased their foros and became the outright owners of land they had rented ; they became foristas . |
| 23 | ICI 's Winnington Lane laboratories in Northwich , were put on the market earlier this year . |
| 24 | ‘ The potted shrimps were put on the table by the parlourmaid immediately before the guests entered the dining-room , ’ said Milsom . |
| 25 | It makes me want to roll up my sleeves , ’ McQuaid said in praise and plain enjoyment at the prospect of it as the plates were put on the table . |
| 26 | Bowls of the clear chicken soup they loved were put on the table . |
| 27 | The sheets , etc. were put on the table with the dolls , and an explanation given . |
| 28 | The cakes and the presents were put on the table , then the children hid in the other room when they heard Perks coming home from work . |
| 29 | Yes , Chairman , can I say that erm , when the b the budget 's in the process of formulation and we 're discussing the question of balances and reserves and how they should be marked for the immediate future , particularly in regard to the way that er , reorganization may take place at police authorities in the very near future , and also those of us who are on this , on , on other committees who 've had experience in , and the same sort of thing happening in further education for instance , where immediately the assets , before even the regulations were put on the table , the assets of all these things were , all these er , erm , coll the further education colleges were frozen so we could n't do anything with them at all as an Authority , and er , actually many of them were taken from us without er , without any question at all . |
| 30 | They were put on the sink and you washed them . |