Example sentences of "to put [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You had to buy your own stuff , I bought a pair of thigh boots and they were all made with leather and he and I used to put neat's-foot oil on them and I could roll them down just like a b just like a boot . |
| 2 | When you 've finished sorting them into their piles , the next job is to put each pile into a separate bag , so that you would put all your bones into one bag , all your pottery into another . |
| 3 | It can be advantageous to put each formula on a stability test and to leave earlier formulae on storage when later different formulae are developed ; the earlier formula may eventually prove to be more stable than later formulae . |
| 4 | Many correspondents complained that their constructive advice , as opposed to their prying , fell on stony ground , since most peasants lacked the means to put technical advice on agriculture into effect . |
| 5 | One fundamental characteristic of professional people ( including those who are the most successful ) is to put technical excellence in their own field first , everything else coming a poor second . |
| 6 | So I think that er to put parental investment theory centre stage is more reliable and better than the rather old-fashioned biological approach which in talking about sex emphasise things like sex chromosomes and hormones , so that a sex chromosome in a mammal for instance was something that a male had but a female did n't and this gave rise to hormonal effects like those of testosterone erm which are thought to be very important . |
| 7 | Britain 's local councils charge £6-10 a ton to put solid waste in landfills : a price , say the commercial firms , that does not reflect capital investment or the sums that must be et aside to ensure a landfill is properly maintained during its 30 years or so of life . |
| 8 | The vote was not legally binding , but was thought to put strong pressure on the Council of Ministers , which would have the final decision on the basis of qualified majority voting . |
| 9 | Whatever the outcome , the Government 's willingness to continue pushing through the float during this Parliament shows how ministers are prepared to put political expediency before the interests of the industry . |
| 10 | He er he was strong enough man to put fifty pound down for his deposit , towards his deposit of a hundred and fifty you know ? |
| 11 | There was no way to put that garment on alluringly — she knew that with certainty , having spent hours struggling in front of her bedroom mirror . |
| 12 | Do you think I ought to put that teddy in his cot ? |
| 13 | You may well , for instance , be depending to a large extent on the character of the victim ( as I was in The Murder of the Maharajah ) and the least troublesome way to put that character before the reader is in direct scenes showing the future victim in action . |
| 14 | I may object on a point of fact ( ‘ There are no gibbons there now ’ ) or by appealing to some other end or principle ( ‘ You ought not to put that problem off any longer ’ ) . |
| 15 | Erm now we have , as an authority to negotiate er , to put that land together erm the Scout 's hut is on some of that land at the moment , and we 've failed er , to do that in the past . |
| 16 | That 's basically for editing purposes , so that , if the editor , he likes the general tenor of what you 've said but he perhaps wants to , he wants to chop a little bit out or he wants to put that sentence up there , he 's got somewhere that he can actually , he can actually do his editing . |
| 17 | If we try to put that description more concretely , we might describe essay- writing as involving a standardised , written variety of language which seeks to communicate clearly while following academic conventions . |
| 18 | Thank God we have n't been bombed , and Theresa has n't had to put that gas mask on the baby . ’ |
| 19 | Now he was determined to put that mistake right . |
| 20 | To put that type of pressure on individuals I think is absolutely awful . |
| 21 | With his splendid physique and proud , noble head his presence is such as to give him an instant advantage over any bowler , and he has rarely failed to put that advantage to use ; spinners in particular have suffered at his hands , but when he decides that he wants to score runs it is virtually impossible to bowl to him . |
| 22 | I wanted to forget it and to put that life behind me . |
| 23 | Similarly , Samet added , the paint is flaking on Georges Seurat 's 1888 masterpiece ‘ Les Poseuses ’ , reason enough not to put that work on tour . |
| 24 | Right , when you , off you go then dear , you want to put that stuff in ? |
| 25 | ‘ Anyway , to make extra sure , you get yourself round to Bella 's tomorrow morning , ’ said Simon , ‘ and get her to put that money in the bank . ’ |
| 26 | He was n't ashamed to put that money into his business , it 's what she wanted and he wanted . |
| 27 | The new Toxic Shock Syndrome Information Service aims to put that ignorance right . |
| 28 | Now we 're going to put that knowledge to work . |
| 29 | You have to have the ability to put that knowledge across . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I 've also got to know Whitby very well and it 's nice to be able to put that knowledge to good use . ’ |