Example sentences of "[be] put [adv prt] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists .
2 It 's when the teachers think this is a boring , mundane , difficult thing to do , then that tends to be put over to the children and of course the disaster is that the children will believe it , and it if the children will believe it then we grow up in a highly technological society producing very few technologists or scientists .
3 Proponents of the scheme hope that new money will be put in from the NUS to smooth over any such problems ; also to remedy the poor funding of crèches generally .
4 It seems that matters have fallen behind schedule and need to be put back on the rails .
5 It can only be put down to the ravages of drink ’ .
6 When , at the end of July and the beginning of August 1943 , four RAF raids practically wiped out the centre of Hamburg — Germany 's second city — in fire-storms , killing some 40,000 people , rumours spread that unrest had had to be put down by the police and SA or Wehrmacht , and that there was a ‘ November mood ’ — an allusion to the revolutionary mood of November 1918 — in the Reich which would rise up against the unbearable air raids .
7 Unfortunately it is very likely that among the men and women best qualified by talent , temperament and experience to become MPs many would be put off by the conditions imposed by the STV on the winning and the retention of a seat .
8 Manville refused to be put off by the objections .
9 But do n't be put off by the remains of a crashed enemy aircraft which paid a visit during World War Two .
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