Example sentences of "put [art] [adj] [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pentagon sources made the disclosure as they and Western allies put the finishing touches to a draft United Nations resolution aimed at forcing the Serbs to stop their aggression . |
| 2 | The hotel was a factory where itinerant shift-workers put the finishing touches to pleasure and pain . |
| 3 | The big bonger chimed midnight as I put the finishing touches to our Bible beds ( hers has a closing lid , of course ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I have also discussed the situation with the Football League and put the full facts to them and they have given me clear advice . |
| 5 | Drop the loops from the needles marked X and put the empty needles to non-working position . |
| 6 | THE Australian-born composer Barrington Pheloung , creator of the chart-topping theme music for the television series Inspector Morse , visited Glasgow yesterday to put the final touches to one of his latest compositions . |
| 7 | THE Australian-born composer Barrington Pheloung , creator of the chart-topping theme music for the hit television series Inspector Morse , visited Glasgow yesterday to put the final touches to one of his latest compositions . |
| 8 | The polls show most Germans do n't want Stephan Heitmann as president and there 's still stiff opposition within his own party , but Chancellor Kohl here in his own office is now meeting with other party leaders to put the final touches to the final nomination of Stephan Heitmann as president of Germany . |
| 9 | While the officials , commentators and chess groupies then lingered over an enjoyable buffet , the players and their seconds rushed off to put the finishing touches to six months of preparations . |
| 10 | OFFICIALS from the Group-of-Seven largest seven market economies will gather in Frankfurt today to put the finishing touches to a plan designed to lead to a $35billion increase in the resources of the International Monetary Fund . |
| 11 | Managing director Bill Fotherby will use this week 's European Cup trip to Stuttgart to put the finishing touches to negotiations which could smash all records . |
| 12 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA and IBM Corp came together in Paris last week to put the finishing touches to their collaborations , announcing successful conclusion of specific contracts that comprise the far-reaching open-systems technology and associated manufacturing alliance announced on January 28 . |
| 13 | Similar charitable schemes outside London were equally ineffective , yet still the COS and its associates refused to co-operate with local authorities in establishing larger schemes , despite the capacity and willingness of the latter to put the charitable funds to more effective use in such necessary activities as road-building . |
| 14 | THE Big Wednesday are currently putting the final touches to their new demo , which was recorded earlier this week . |
| 15 | But Fate took a hand , as it has a habit of doing , and the first person I encountered in the hut was Barbara , who was putting the final touches to her make-up before going to the dance herself . |
| 16 | Our picture shows contractors Archie Spiers and Bobby Martin , from Nu-Line Partitions , putting the final touches to the change area . |
| 17 | We are presently putting the final touches to the programme for another seminar on this topic to be held on Saturday 14 May 1988 at Jordanhill College in Glasgow . |
| 18 | The British men 's hockey team have been putting the final touches to their preparations for the Olympics . |
| 19 | They will spend Valentine 's Day putting the final touches to their wedding following a whirlwind telephone romance . |
| 20 | At the risk of being treated as a terrible simplifier I venture to assert that the author of Daniel 7–12 was evidently writing or at least putting the last touches to his prophecies immediately after the reconsecration of the Temple ( in December 164 ? ) . |
| 21 | But early yesterday , several thousand people with different ideas assembled at the Dynamo Metro station , and began marching towards Red Square , where officials were putting the finishing touches to preparations for the usual annual parade . |
| 22 | When it comes to putting the finishing touches to the tractor , though , this Italian firm still has something to learn from other makers . |
| 23 | The great Morrissey is currently putting the finishing touches to his new solo album , and a single engagingly entitled We Hate It When Our Friends Become Successful will be in the stores about the same time as Johnny Rogan 's book . |
| 24 | Maurice , in black-framed glasses , white coat , black trousers and Hi-Tec trainers , is putting the finishing touches to one of his regulars . |
| 25 | With only eight days to go until the opening of Seville 's World Fair , workmen are putting the finishing touches to the site . |
| 26 | There was a subdued ‘ clanging ’ from Henderson 's Shipyard at Meadowside to the left , and the passengers waiting for the ferry on the Govan side at Water Row , could see the glow of fires where the boilermakers were busy putting the finishing touches to the Anchor Line 's new flagship , the Columbia . |
| 27 | All this time I was putting the finishing touches to our hero 's book . |
| 28 | Since a year last August scientists working on UA1 and UA2 have been putting the finishing touches to their apparatus , and at the same time machine physicists at CERN have been working to get a large enough number of collisions in the SPS . |
| 29 | Engineers are putting the finishing touches to a roomful of scientific equipment in Oxford which will use a new technique to measure the amount of radioactive carbon in an ancient specimen . |
| 30 | The band are currently putting the finishing touches to their third album , which should be out early in the summer . |