Example sentences of "[was/were] put [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many such ‘ solutions ’ were put forward during the 1950s . |
| 2 | Radical proposals were put forward in the 1965 White Paper , The Child , the family and the Young Offender . |
| 3 | More trade-union sponsored Labour candidates were put forward in the 1929 General Election as unions recognized the failure of industrial action . |
| 4 | The guests were put up in the Inter-Continental Hotel which overlooks the stretch of the Landwehr Canal into which the Freikorps threw the dead body of Rosa Luxembourg in 1919 . |
| 5 | Notices warning of the dangers of thin ice were put up in the last few days when the lake froze over . |
| 6 | These decent working-class houses were put up in the 1770s and 1780s , where land was cheap and when building materials were plentiful , wages in the building trades relatively low , and money relatively cheap . |
| 7 | They were put on to the French market one at a time with intervals between the sales . |
| 8 | In fact we were put right in the front row , and Aunt Louise graced her position perfectly ; her evident enjoyment and generous ( though ladylike ) applause could not , I felt , have been without its encouragement to the players . |
| 9 | Opponents of the idea that the management of education and training can benefit from the lessons of business and industry found it ironic that the messages which were put out in the two documents criticized weaknesses in the world of employers rather than of educators . |
| 10 | Does the hon. Gentleman accept that , if he is as keen as I am to provide a level playing field for road and rail , he should recognise that , when motorways were built around Greater Manchester , of three footpaths that crossed the motorway , one was closed or diverted and bridges or underpasses were put in for the other two . |
| 11 | As for Mr 's point that Not Mr b Steven 's point that the erm figures for the strategic guidance for West and South Yorkshire were done on a different basis , those figures with the exception of Sheffield , were erm figures that were put in by the local planning authorities , the Secretary of State accepted those figures , they were done on the nineteen eighty five based household projections , coupled with different assumptions about vacancy rates and demolitions etcetera , and the Secretary of State accepted those figures . |
| 12 | There were serious disturbances in Beirut and Tripoli which were put down by the new Lebanese administration with the help of French troops . |
| 13 | The riots were put down by the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , with support from Serbia , in an apparent rebuttal of the Croatian authorities ; observers noted that this was the first time that the JNA , whose officer corps was dominated by ethnic Serbs , had been used to put down violence outside Serbia itself . |
| 14 | It is also possible that many advertisers were put off by the political tone . |
| 15 | Soon after this , his name was put forward for the Jamaican Senate and he became a member , but although he attended regularly it was not something he took to . |
| 16 | ‘ Miss Duncan 's name was put forward for the possible lead in Arnie Costow 's new production of All the Fond Dreams , ’ the secretary explained . |
| 17 | Here again I respectfully agree with the observations made by Lord Donaldson M.R. , at pp. 324–325 , and by Neill L.J. , at pp. 326–327 , when rejecting the proprietary argument , which had not been advanced before Wright J. but which had rightly to be considered when it was put forward for the first time in the Court of Appeal . |
| 18 | A lack of finance in the budget for a busy season of overseas competition was put forward as the major factor in the composition of the team . |
| 19 | The idea of distinctive features was put forward in the early 1930s by Bloomfield ( 1933 ) and Trubetzkoy ( various publications leading up to 1939 ) ; however , in early work and in present-day functional phonology , the features are worked out individually for the language being studied . |
| 20 | The proposal to drop both the anti-abortion legislation and plans for a referendum on the issue was put forward by the Democratic Union , the liberal wing of the Solidarity parliamentary caucus . |
| 21 | In the dramatic trial that followed — the so-called " Monkey Trial " — the literal view of the Bible was put forward by the chief prosecution witness , William Jennings Bryan , presidential candidate for the Progressive Party in the 1896 election and later Wilson 's Secretary of State . |
| 22 | An elegant way to avoid these paradoxes that had so troubled Einstein was put forward by the American physicist Richard Feynman . |
| 23 | When he arrived in Bristol he was put up in the old Bright 's ( temperance ) Hotel at the rear of the present Dingle 's store . |
| 24 | Spain 's Alcatel Sesa SA has taken control of two Polish companies , PZT Telkom , which employs 640 people in Warsaw , and Teletra , which has about 1,300 employees making public telephone exchanges ; Alcatel Sesa said it would guarantee jobs for 1,650 people at the two firms for the next 18 months and committed itself to increasing the capital of the two companies by another $25m within a year ; it plans to start manufacturing the Alcatel 1000 S-12 exchange in Poland , where it says it has already built eight digital exchanges in Poland with a $60m credit that was put up by the Spanish government . |
| 25 | A barrier designed to stop vehicles gaining access to Orford Ness and damaging flood defences and wildlife habitat was put up by the National Rivers Authority last year and is controlled by the FCO . |
| 26 | Nigel leafed through a few large-print Agatha Christies but was put off by the noxious inexplicable stains on the pages . |
| 27 | The collection , which he says was put together over the last twenty years , but most of which was acquired from the mid Eighties onwards in a sudden and unexplained burst of prosperity , consists of illuminated manuscripts , metalwork , coins and armour , mainly from the medieval Middle Eastern Islamic world . |
| 28 | It was put together by , it was put together by the Chief Fire Officer and the Chief Executive er , not just the Chief Fire Officer . |
| 29 | Her wardrobe was put together by the debonair O'Toole who took Tara to the chic London designershop , Burns . |
| 30 | Hunt was put out of the new US Grand Prix ( West ) at Long Beach , following a shunt with Patric Depailler ( Fra ) as Lauda finished second to stretch his lead to 18 points . |