Example sentences of "put [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether they themselves are therefore put off the idea or they think their clients will object , is hard to say , as very few bureaux seem to have given the system a try . |
| 2 | Thus students living in poor accommodation , often isolated and without external support , become disillusioned with the experience of teaching , and put off the idea of teaching in a rural area where qualified teachers are needed most . |
| 3 | They were also put off the idea of French food by smelling garlic on the stagehands ' breath . |
| 4 | When Gandalf says to Frodo of his wound on Weathertop , ‘ your heart was not touched , and only your shoulder was pierced ; and that was because you resisted to the last ’ , he may be making a moral statement ( Frodo was rewarded ) or a practical one ( he dodged , called out , struck back , put off the Ringwraith 's aim ) . |
| 5 | Although in non-stop pain , he has put off the operation until the Formula One championship season is over . |
| 6 | Then his sister told him gently that schools like his did n't have bells , a bell would lower the tone of the place and put off the parents of prospective pupils . |
| 7 | I was thoroughly put off the whole notion while sharing a flat in New York with a woman who went to pieces when she lost her favourite crystal , and who went to a ‘ Fear of Failure ’ workshop one week , only to attend a ‘ Fear of Success ’ workshop the next . |
| 8 | If he had accepted her invitation to supper she would have taken it for encouragement ; he would simply have put off the evil day . |
| 9 | That would not have been the end of it , but it would have put off the worst , and Tutilo seldom looks beyond the day . |
| 10 | Er so , when I want to create a directory called put off the root directory . |
| 11 | I want to create a directory called put off the root directory . |
| 12 | She has put off the meeting with him and it is not surprising that the two different characters clash . |
| 13 | No I 've made , it 's made an awful lot of difference to me the New Town I mean we 've got and the Council are very , very good to us , I mean we ca n't say they 're not , they 've had a , I 've had the gas central heating put in , I 've had a shower put in since I 've been here and I mean they do they look after us well , the only thing I 'm upset about that I 've put off the ambulance to go to Leah Manning on a Wednesday because they want me to go on a Tuesday and I can not go on a Tuesday because I have my friend come down which does all odd jobs for me you know , on a Tuesday dear and I just can not so I had to see Mr is it ? |
| 14 | They also appealed to holidaymakers not to be put off the resort by the disaster . |
| 15 | WOULD the last one out , please put off the lights ! |
| 16 | Stabbed policeman ‘ wo n't be put off the job' |
| 17 | Once the check-outs had been completed the pilots and planes moved to Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego where they were put aboard the USS Yorktown for the carrier filming . |
| 18 | Knowledge that there is strong local support for its continuation and use for worship can only help this cause and counter any arguments being put for the other side . |
| 19 | The methods described so far are suitable for popular waters where it is a case of choosing a swim and staying put for the whole session , which means you must attract fish into your swim and induce them to feed . |
| 20 | The court stated obiter that there is no reason why a section 2(2) notice should not be issued to the applicant after he had been charged , but this statement was accompanied by the clear and crucial corollary that the person who had been charged would have first to be cautioned and questions could only be put for the paragraph 16.5 purposes . |
| 21 | In my judgment , the question has only to be put for the answer to be apparent . |
| 22 | and er if it was applied retroactively the er estimates which were put for the European court |
| 23 | They use the stoving technique , where the bath is put through the ovens at a controlled temperature , lower than that required for vitreous enamelling and so less damaging to old baths . |
| 24 | The BSS UK has data available from OVISCO , a Belgian lamb marketing group which conducted a survey on 122 pure Beltex lambs put through the group 's slaughterhouse for export . |
| 25 | Carbon is taken from the air by plants and stored , made into ethanol , put through the engine and released to air again — no net gain . |
| 26 | Yesterday 's result means that he will be able to take on the Euro-sceptic rump in the Tory Party and put through the legislation that could put Britain on the road to a single European currency by the late 1990s . |
| 27 | All the dredge straw is eaten avidly by cattle ; the rye and wheat straw are less palatable , but are eaten more readily when put through the chaff-cutter and mixed with chopped mangolds or swedes . |
| 28 | However , when this calcined material is put through the catalyst preparation step of heating in a 10:90 mixture of H 2 and N 2 , the CuO peaks vanished and the two-peak signature of metallic copper appeared at about 270°C . |
| 29 | In traditional Unilever style , Burgmans has been put through the international mill . |
| 30 | Voluptuous yet vulnerable , she was put through the studio 's star-grooming routine from which she emerged as the screen phenomenon known to the world as Marilyn Monroe . |