Example sentences of "putting it [adj] " in BNC.

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1 It just means that putting it first
2 And that gave me a terrible feeling , I just did n't know what to , whether to you know , you was sad and yet you felt wild at them putting it that way .
3 And doing it 's not so much that you 're doing everything wrong , it 's just the one thing which being done right is that the other way of putting it that , the guy because he 's so well organized what effect does that have on everybody else then ?
4 It 's just another way of putting it that 's all .
5 They can show you what you are aiming at by breaking down the manoeuvre and showing the role of each movement , but putting it all together with correct co-ordination and timing is up to you to teach yourself .
6 Manville concentrated , putting it all together in his head .
7 PUTTING IT ALL TOGETHER
8 Putting it all together
9 This final chapter looks at ways of putting it all together .
10 Erm but the idea that someone is putting it all down , all those private conversations , all those tensions , and it 's all being recorded , not to present the historic truth , but to present the truth as the person wants history to read it .
11 I 'm just putting it all in one place , yeah .
12 She 's sitting there , she 's putting it all in and she goes , she goes and she goes and she goes , yeah
13 What do you think as I fear that putting it right may be a costly job ?
14 Putting it right will not be so easy .
15 The country is in such disorder that a successor may be unequal to the task of putting it right .
16 Putting it right will cost always a lot more than making your will .
17 ‘ Well ’ and he waited to be certain he was putting it right , for she gave him scruples ‘ well , as we were saying , one is n't sure of the ruling hand any longer , so there is an inclination these days to take over oneself . ’
18 So I think the the Eurofighter team has learned from the mistakes that were made originally in the allocation of the work and the way in which it was handled and they are now putting it right .
19 One programmer spent a week trying to find out what damage had been done and then putting it right . ’
20 And they er I 'm not putting it right close though .
21 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 .
22 And when they sited their power stations , they decided erm , again for good economic reasons , to site them er along the channel coast and actually down the , down the Rhine most of the power stations are , are er th they have power stations elsewhere but a lot of the power stations are in these areas here and the reason for that was , by putting it near to their borders , they were able to export electricity to their neighbours .
23 The combination of Alsys and Telesoft will create a company with annual turnover of about $40m , putting it head to head with market leader Rational Inc , which claims 25% of the Ada business .
24 Putting it another way , an individual that succeeded in persuading its partner to play the female most of the time would gain all the benefits of ‘ her ’ economic investment in eggs , while ‘ he ’ has resources left over to spend on other things , for instance on mating with other fish .
25 Better try putting it another way round .
26 Or , putting it another way , it describes the symptoms , the effects , rather than the cause .
27 Putting it another , more familiar , but less exact way , it is a body of rules ensuring fair play , thus rendering the government ‘ responsible . ’
28 Putting it another way , movement of goods , services and so forth across the English Channel ought ideally to be no different to movement from England to Wales .
29 So , putting it another way , you do n't agree with the principle of a new settlement , but if it happened to be found elsewhere , other than Hambledon , you 'd let it ride ?
30 The fact that other parties respond at just these code switch points suggests that they represent the boundaries of salient categories within the talk — or putting it another way , that they represent the participants ' perceptions of the relevant sections of talk which require or permit a response — even where these boundaries do not correspond with any syntactic boundary .
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