Example sentences of "put to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want to put to the hon. Member for Sedgefield some important and fundamental questions relating to his party 's attitude to training and I hope that he will do the House the honour of answering them . |
| 2 | Here is an example from a question he put to the prime minister on 9 July 1992 : |
| 3 | I should rather like to have an opportunity of putting to the Prime Minister some of the arguments in favour of handling business through Cabinet Committees . |
| 4 | ‘ Basically , we are looking to discuss it further with Foinavon and that will be the recommendation we will be putting to the general committee of the club . ’ |
| 5 | Now th that , that if you like is , is the new strategy that he 's putting to the Communist Party and he 's saying look , you should recognize this is going on , there is a , there , there is a , a growing class basis to this and we must lead it because it is the way forward . |
| 6 | If today 's brinkmanship backfires on Mr Yeltsin , he will almost certainly put to the popular vote the future of his reforms and a proposal for a constitution that would weaken parliament 's powers . |
| 7 | A government resolution which would transform the mutual debts of state enterprises into " transferable long-term bonds " , to circulate for a year until their conversion into shares , was put to the Supreme Soviet on June 26 together with the budget statement . |
| 8 | And over the next 3 days , all their training and stamina was put to the supreme test as the rafts were rowed down river . |
| 9 | In another case , the objection was that the Commission had heard argument from one company which had not been put to the other company . |
| 10 | When the disputed questions were put to the practical test of revolution in 1917 , she saw the ‘ doctrinaire obstinacy ’ of the Bolsheviks on the national question as one of the key factors in the disintegration of the Tsarist empire in 1918 . |
| 11 | Aware of the way 25,000 Boer farmers had been defeated only by ten times their number in the war of 1899–1902 , during his boyhood in South Africa , Dudley Clarke was able to interest his chief , Sir John Dill , Chief of the Imperial General Staff , in the idea and it was put to the Prime Minister . |
| 12 | The motion was put to the annual conference of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents which is meeting in Llandudno . |
| 13 | The motion was put to the annual conference of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents meeting in Llandudno . |
| 14 | You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association . |
| 15 | It is unlikely that voting by a single shareholder will make much difference to the success of a resolution either way , and so it is not worthwhile for shareholders to evaluate proposals put to the general meeting . |
| 16 | The question put to the French electorate in a referendum on Sept. 20 was : " Do you approve the law presented to the French people by the President of the Republic authorizing ratification of the Treaty on European Union ? " |
| 17 | Now Thatcherism is being put to the same test as Keynesianism was . |
| 18 | A resolution , to be put to the national conference of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents in Llandudno , suggests it is wrong for ‘ agent provocateurs ’ children sent for cigarettes by adults to be used to trap shopkeepers . |
| 19 | Since only two of the churches , apart from St. Patrick 's , are big enough to hold 400 people , a proposal was put to the Congregational Church to host the service some time in 1993 and the Church of Scotland offered to consider it for 1994 . |