Example sentences of "puts it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Langston Hughes , the black poet Weill chose to write the lyrics for Street Scene , puts it pithily : Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon . |
| 2 | Mr Newbery puts it rather differently for Britain : cars using city centres at rush hour , he calculates , incur marginal costs more than 100 times higher than cars on the average motorway or country road . |
| 3 | Brennan puts it clearly : |
| 4 | Williamson ( 1981 ) puts it well in relation to urinary incontinence . |
| 5 | Lieb puts it well when he observes that the facade inscription on St Michael Berg am Laim — ‘ This is the Lord 's doing ; it is marvellous to our eyes ’ — paid homage not only to the King of kings , but also to the all powerful Josef Clemens , prince-bishop of Cologne . |
| 6 | Jeannie , who lived there prior to its renovation , puts it well : " Although dilapidated , it had a marvellous atmosphere . |
| 7 | Peter Shore , Wilson 's Parliamentary Private Secretary in 1965–6 , puts it even more strongly : ‘ Harold 's supremacy within that Cabinet in the first two , perhaps even three , years was enormous . ’ |
| 8 | Eventually she puts it away , deciding not to wash it because she hates ironing . |
| 9 | Colin MacCabe puts it thus : |
| 10 | Edward Shils , ‘ one of the foremost exponents of this school , puts it thus : ‘ When , as in modern society , a more unified economic system . |
| 11 | In Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Harper 's Garage ( Stourport ) Ltd [ 1968 ] AC 269 Lord Reid said : Whenever a man agrees to do something over a period he thereby puts it wholly or partly out of his power to " exercise any trade or business he pleases " during that period . |
| 12 | For the power of Christ 's resurrection , as he puts it elsewhere , is available only to those who are willing ‘ to share his sufferings and become like him in his death ’ ( Phil 3:10 ) . |
| 13 | Of the 1,000 subscribers , around 60% were customers of the original Cognito service , but the company says that the 40% of new business it has attracted puts it ahead of its business plan schedule . |
| 14 | Howard tilts the card back and forth until he has seen the couple in the corner leave , and the manager quietly coping with a customer who refuses to pay the bill , then puts it carefully into his pocket to save for his children , who love this kind of toy . |
| 15 | Perhaps Irene puts it best-she certainly puts it most often — when she tells Tod that he has no soul . |
| 16 | There 's a very succinct quote about law by Oliver Goldsmith and he puts it really into perspective and he says , laws ground the poor and rich men rule the law . |
| 17 | R. E. Kaske puts it extremely neatly by claiming only for the Miller 's Tale an " " implicit orientation " " towards " " a controlling set of [ moral and religious ] values " " creating a framework within which , ultimately , the actions within the tale and the actions of writing , telling and reading the tale , are to be evaluated . |
| 18 | Adrienne Rich puts it precisely : |
| 19 | ‘ Show me where he puts it then . ’ |
| 20 | As the ARCIC I statement on Eucharistic doctrine puts it so well : |
| 21 | Gerard Manley Hopkins ' great poem ‘ God 's Grandeur ’ puts it so well : |
| 22 | Irenaeus puts it so splendidly : ‘ He became human that we might become divine . ’ |
| 23 | To the right of our view , the lawn sloped up a gentle embankment to where the summerhouse stood , and it was there my father ’ s figure could by seen , pacing slowly with an air of preoccupation — indeed , as Miss Kenton puts it so well , ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
| 24 | His wife Marjorie puts it more graphically : ‘ It 's not ‘ Come on , let's get upstairs ’ any more . |
| 25 | That , you know , th that puts it more in the context , does n't it . |
| 26 | Margaret Sutherland ( 1971 ) puts it succinctly : |
| 27 | A poem by Hölderlin , ‘ Patmos ’ , puts it succinctly : ‘ Where danger is , there/Arises salvation also . ’ |
| 28 | The helpful handbook puts it succinctly — ‘ Faxes that are hard for humans to read are hard for FAXgrabber to read ’ . |
| 29 | Dr Rosalind Hursthouse puts it succinctly : ‘ Unmarried . |
| 30 | So , I think we should say we are sceptical , and I think the paper puts it correctly er , we are sceptical of whether the reforms of the first consortium in fact , is going to meet the needs in terms of new health area and I know that time will come , they 're talking about the lot , it 's gon na wonderful and that the our economies should get all I can say is that the likelihood is the only f the area committee er , so that residents can comment managers , but since we 've already had a nine hundred percent increase in senior management in the health service in the past five years up from nine hundred to over ten thousand at a cost of fifty to two hundred and fifty million pounds I 'm rather sceptical about that one as well ! |