Example sentences of "put [prep] [art] test " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rather mixed array of verbal and non-verbal phenomena ( including metaphor , " tall tales " , drama , paintings , etc. ) is systematically put through the test , in an ambitious attempt to provide a survey of the range of applicability of the notion of fictionality . |
| 2 | okey-dokey how can they have someone else 's that 's been put in a test tube and kept fertilized and their wife 's |
| 3 | The first flight you make on any day is really the only one where your judgement is put to the test . |
| 4 | So far it has not been put to the test in service . |
| 5 | STEVEN SMITH 'S new rapport with the unpredictable Brook Street Picnic will be put to the test later this month , when he begins the tour of shows in Washington , New York and Toronto on the North American Fall Circuit , writes Genevieve Murphy . |
| 6 | These beliefs were put to the test when United Biscuits was obliged to close one of its main factories in Liverpool . |
| 7 | Even so , all her powers were put to the test when she flew to America to interview Madonna . |
| 8 | The Anglo-American partnership outside Europe was put to the test when the Korean War started in June 1950 . |
| 9 | Whether this device would , in a crisis , have served to drive people away or draw them to the spot seems not to have been put to the test . |
| 10 | In practice , the issues may never be put to the test because it is very likely that other parties would succeed in preventing referenda , but it is still enough of a departure for some evangelical DUP activists to have been initially opposed to the change . |
| 11 | In the event , the formula was never put to the test , but it provides an idea of the way the Palace would expect to pass the buck . |
| 12 | Parents : Help when they 're put to the test Maggie Drummond offers hints on helping children knuckle down at exam time |
| 13 | Although Eagles ' defence was rarely put to the test , they need to improve their control for the sterner tasks that lie ahead next season . |
| 14 | Pamela 's major qualities were courage , humour and broadmindedness , although the last of these was put to the test , first when her only brother became a Roman Catholic , then when her only daughter married one . |
| 15 | Somewhat ironically , in view of the detailed , convoluted negotiations of the previous year , the constitutional agreement was not put to the test in the ways intended as the outbreak of war in September 1939 set aside the anticipated position irrevocably . |
| 16 | The size of the combined opposition and abstentions indicated how far Lenin 's arguments had won the day , just before the Bolsheviks were to be put to the test of power . |
| 17 | In the same way , we can question the substance and basis of our happiness if it has not been put to the test of suffering . |
| 18 | If a house is not built soundly in the first place , and if it is not kept in good repair , it will fail when put to the test . |
| 19 | It was this comforting idea that was put to the test by the Mikulić government . |
| 20 | Fortunately , its effectiveness was never put to the test . |
| 21 | This last fact means that many aspects of Salibi 's theory can not as yet be put to the test . |
| 22 | If theories are ever put to the test and proved right , then the theories disappear and they are replaced by facts , or perhaps even laws . |
| 23 | Firstly , it produces a flat statement of fact which can be put to the test , and , secondly , it states the case in an extreme , or ‘ ideal ’ , form , eschewing such modifications as ‘ most ’ , or ‘ a majority ’ . |
| 24 | So , to get to grips with this problem we now have to break down our general hypothesis into a number of smaller ones which can be put to the test . |
| 25 | Its unique design was never put to the test in defending against attack ; instead it was used as a prison almost from the time it was built . |
| 26 | If our beliefs have never been challenged or put to the test we may doubt their validity now . |
| 27 | Before , however , the plan could be put to the test preliminary peace terms had been agreed and England 's victory in the Seven Years War was confirmed by the Treaty of Paris on 10 February 1763 . |
| 28 | At all events , master of ceremonies Bill Franklyn — still synonymous with the Schh … in Schweppes tonic — occasionally found his crowd-control skills put to the test . |
| 29 | This powerful and unusual defensive tower was never put to the test and was almost solely used to keep prisoners in rather than invaders out . |
| 30 | The syndicat was soon put to the test . |