Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] put [pers pn] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself . |
| 2 | As the poet Heine put it in 1844 in ‘ A Winter 's Tale ’ , the land belongs to the French and the Russians , the sea to the British , but the Germans ‘ are the unchallenged rulers of the kingdom of dreams . ’ |
| 3 | Tim Renton , Minister for the Arts , has caused a storm by calling into question one of the main dogmas of British arts administration , the so-called arm's-length principle ‘ government funding through semi-independent institutions ’ , as Lord Keynes , the architect of the Arts Council put it in 1945 . |
| 4 | It would not be whimsical to suggest that I still go to Arsenal now because of what Swindon did to me then : like a gambler who keeps playing because it is the only way to win back what he has lost , I still feel , somewhere in me , that I am owed for what Ian Ure and Jon Sammels and Bobby Gould put me through that afternoon . |
| 5 | As the Reverend David Davies put it in 1795 , " depriving the peasantry of all landed property has beggared multitudes " . |
| 6 | As Alexander Irvine put it in 1694 : it is a Maxim in our Law , " That the King can do no Wrong " ; the Meaning whereof is not , that nothing can be done amiss that he does in point of Government , but whatever there is amiss to it , is not to be imputed to him , but to those by whose Advice and Ministry he acts ; and consequently , that not he , but they are punishable for them . |
| 7 | As one law lord put it in 1967 , it can be ‘ very unpleasant ’ and ‘ hard ’ for the advocate ‘ to explain to a client why he is indulging in what seems treachery to his client because of an abstract duty to justice and professional honour ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ The gigantic power and influence of the ovaries over the whole animal economy of woman ’ , as Dr Bliss put it in 1870 , meant that women 's constitutions were believed to be inherently unstable throughout the life cycle . |
| 9 | As J. Wade put it in 1842 , ‘ The immorality of marrying without the means of supporting a family is a doctrine of recent promulgation . ’ |
| 10 | The Zambian journalist Titus Mukupo put it like this : |
| 11 | As a peasant from the Kursk guberniia put it in 1922 : ‘ We are not for priests nor for the church , but if only the Comrades would give us a little of what they promise : they promise a school and Socialism , but our hands are still as empty as ever . ’ |
| 12 | One recruitment manager put it like this : A year ago we were buying teams … now we 're filling holes . " |
| 13 | A young probationer WPC put it like this . |
| 14 | As E. H. Carr put it in 1945 : |
| 15 | As Whately Cook Taylor put it in 1874 , ‘ Hitherto , whatever the laws have touched , they have not dared invade the sacred precinct ’ , and such reluctance dictated the hesitations over passing the incest law until 1908 . |
| 16 | As Charlwood Lawton put it in 1693 , there were Jacobites for reformations , " That think it Lawful for Kings , and their Parliaments , to limit and explain the Nature of Prerogatives " , and he went on to advocate certain legal reforms , reform of the militia , the frequent sitting of Parliament ( Lawton was writing before the passage of the 1694 Triennial Act ) , and Parliament 's right to scrutinise and punish ministers of state . |
| 17 | And , as the Canadian writer Eric Downton put it in 1986 , ‘ societies with Confucian-Buddhist roots are proving more effective in coping with the industrial and technological challenges on the eve of the twenty-first century than [ are those countries with a ] predominantly Christian-Hebraic heritage . ’ |
| 18 | As the Macdonald Survey put it in 1904 , " a curious point in connection with the work being sent out of London is that , except in the case of Edinburgh , the greater cheapness of the work outside London is not due so much to cheaper labour as to lower rents , etc . " . |
| 19 | As one social purity advocate put it in 1949 : ‘ the family is the yardstick to measure values by … and the stability of the family unit is of major importance to the health and welfare of the community ’ . |
| 20 | As the Press Commission put it in 1977 ( p. 149 ) , ‘ Rather than saying that the press has other business interests , it would be truer to argue that the press has become a subsidiary of other interests ’ . |
| 21 | Second , to obtain recognition , as French Foreign Minister Schuman put it in tripartite talks with the Americans and the British in September , 1949 , that the French were the hard core of resistance to communist attempts to take over , initially , Indo-China and ultimately all of Southeast Asia and that as France was fighting the battle of all the democratic powers she would need help . |
| 22 | As the eminent physician Henry Maudsley put it in 1874 , ‘ sex is fundamental , lies deeper than culture , [ and ] can not be ignored or defied with impunity ’ . |
| 23 | tried to call you both saturday nite and a couple of times on sunday — but no answer … the spurs game was just OK — but we had a great time at the newcastle game vs. scousers — great atmosphere — we stood among the newcastle supporters ( north bank ? ) and they made hell each time cole put it behind grobbelar … |
| 24 | As the Director of Leeds Polytechnic put it in 1971 : ‘ the very existence of the new polytechnics must signify the end of the general assumption that a liberal education is the only peak to which a higher education can aspire ’ . |
| 25 | As Sir John Fielding put it in 1758 : The infinite variety of professions , trades , and manufactures joined to the army , navy and services , leave few men idle , unless from choice ; whilst women have but few trades , and fewer manufactures to employ them . |