Example sentences of "puts [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This puts unnecessary strain on the back , ’ Tee says . |
| 2 | Decisions made on the spur of the moment by so called ‘ officials ' puts unnecessary pressure on those behind the counter . |
| 3 | But the strategic guidance for those two counties very firmly puts economic regeneration at the head of the list of objectives . |
| 4 | Ho therefore puts each complaint into intensive care , knowing that nine times out of ten his customers will return even more satisfied . |
| 5 | As with most classifications of natural phenomena the exact forms of which are governed by the interactions of continuously variable sets of conditions , the classification can be as complex as one likes and the only non-controversial classification is that which puts each reef in a class of its own . |
| 6 | They say the day-visitor puts little money in their pockets . |
| 7 | It also puts little stress on those problem-solving skills that are vital to the development of village life . |
| 8 | Well when he 'd cl er hooked it on the wagon , he puts that clip on , and he press down that arrow . |
| 9 | His trainer puts that improvement down to an earlier copper deficiency . |
| 10 | If the defendant states he was wrongly convicted , he puts that fact in issue in the civil proceedings . |
| 11 | To return to the example , if the machine finds that one particular reply to A is especially strong ( leads to an unusually large change in score ) , it remembers that fact , and puts that reply high in the list of plays to be looked at when B and C are examined . |
| 12 | He puts high value on consistent training , on consistent communications , on consistent remuneration schemes . |
| 13 | That puts British justice in a rather curious position . |
| 14 | The kind of pragmatic approach to pedagogy that I have outlined here depends on the recognition of the importance of intellectual effort and puts theoretical rigour at the service of practical relevance . |
| 15 | Hiatus hernias are more likely in smokers who 've got a chronic cough , which puts repeated strain on the abdomen , and also in men who do too much heavy lifting . |
| 16 | Somebody puts another resistor , another , not a resistor , conductor cos it 's going to let some more get through , no matter how much resistance it 'll still let some get through . |
| 17 | ‘ If 'e puts another farm above this , then 'e 's better away . ’ |
| 18 | It not only puts another nail in socialism 's coffin , but deprives him of a peerage . |
| 19 | And then somebody puts another piece of wire in , I 'm not saying how much resistance it is , but somebody puts another piece of wire . |
| 20 | And then somebody puts another piece of wire in , I 'm not saying how much resistance it is , but somebody puts another piece of wire . |
| 21 | 1992 : The NME puts popular chanteuse P.J. Harvey 's naked back on the cover . |
| 22 | ‘ But I am particularly interested to know if the United Kingdom incurs a significant transportation cost penalty on its exports to Europe which puts this country at a commercial and economic disadvantage to the rest of the Community . |
| 23 | The patristic scholar Richard Norris , a student in particular of the Antiochenes ( that school which emphasized the distinction between the two natures ) and who himself , in the sentences I quote , inclines towards an ‘ Antiochene ’ position , puts this point well . |
| 24 | C. B. Macpherson puts this point very well : |
| 25 | Stanley Johnson puts this point most forcefully in his book The Politics of the Environment : |
| 26 | The value of a condensing boiler is that it retrieves most of the expensively generated heat from flue gases and puts this heat back into the system . |
| 27 | ‘ Anyway , what 'appened was , 'e puts this record on the fing an' winds up the 'andle , an' guess what ? ’ |
| 28 | We 're gon na sing a song now in in closing that puts this challenge to us , it 's number one sixty one in the , Songs of Fellowship , it reminds us that we 're the ones , not the other person not the young person that shows so much promise that we think , not somebody else who is so much more gifted than we are , but here , it says , here I am available . |
| 29 | The Vanishing puts this vibe to good use by matching the metaphysical feel of the European road movie with the narrative pace of the post-Hitchcock thriller to come up with an intriguing , slightly disjointed meditation on death , desire and motorway café culture . |
| 30 | Market Report : Bid speculation puts some fizz into S & N |