Example sentences of "was put [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard him talking on the radio , in which he said he 'd tried several methods of winning on the football pools and in the end decided that the easiest thing to do was to put in the same numbers each week and so he was not exercising any skill in deciding whether one pair of teams were likely to enter into a score draw than another pair , but he just trusted that , say , number thirty seven would turn up as a score draw this week . |
| 2 | In April 1985 , interest paid to bank depositors was put on the same tax footing as for building societies : tax is deducted at source at a composite rate . |
| 3 | It was put to the two top men and to the Vice President in charge of Overseas ' Operations that the interests of France could only be adequately served by Frenchmen , and not by Americans or Englishmen . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The motion was put to the annual conference of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents which is meeting in Llandudno . |
| 6 | The motion was put to the annual conference of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents meeting in Llandudno . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | The actions of the central authorities , in the event , served to rally local opinion still more closely around the nationalist leaderships , and when the issue of full independence was put to the republican populations in the spring of 1991 it received overwhelming endorsement The Lithuanian vote , in February , produced a majority of over 90 per cent on an 84 per cent turnout ; in Latvia and Estonia , in March , there were majorities for independence of 74 and 78 per cent on a similar turnout . |
| 11 | Thus , when in November 1947 a resolution was put to the United Nations General Assembly ( UNGA ) Committee for Political and Security Questions , calling for a reaffirmation of the December 1946 resolution , it failed to secure the two-thirds majority required for adoption . |
| 12 | A proposal concerning this motion was put to the last Annual General Meeting of Convocation , but was not favourably received by the members present . |
| 13 | Because the most celebrated of these — the Trianon — was at first full , I was put into the second-best , the Novotel . |
| 14 | By part I of the Law Reform ( Married Women and Tortfeasors ) Act 1935 , a married woman was put into the same position as a man with respect to her proprietary and contractual capacity , and , except in relation to her husband , with respect to her liability for torts . |
| 15 | At another house , the officer was asked to wait on the doorstep ‘ while the dog was put into the back garden ’ . |
| 16 | Jason was put into the top bunk half-an-hour later by Mrs Christine Robinson , 39 , his Australian-born mother . |
| 17 | So I erm , I erm , was put into the Royal Army Pay Corp and posted up to Barnet , North London and I was there for quite a while , we all transferred down to Winchester . |
| 18 | There are exceptions of course — the sample game produced using Domark 's 3D Construction Kit was put into the Public Domain as well as being packaged with the utility . |
| 19 | The London Passenger Transport Board was put under the direct control of the Government through the Railway Executive Committee . |
| 20 | A draft law regulating the export of works of art has already been drawn up and was put before the Supreme Soviet of Russia on 10 September . |
| 21 | A bill to tax profits on land sales and to ban trading under false names was put before the National Assembly in November 1989 . |
| 22 | Next , Helen was put in the capable hands of Daniel Hersheson who reshaped her hair . |
| 23 | ‘ Maybe not , but I know there was a lot of opposition from the guys when a woman was put in the hot seat . ’ |
| 24 | The instrument made by him 20 years ago was put in the wrong case after a studio session with singer Judy Tzuke — and it vanished en route to France where she is doing concerts . |
| 25 | Instead it was put in the Protestant town of Coleraine . |
| 26 | The cultivator had been displayed for sale outside the front of the house , but was put in the back garden for safe-keeping on Friday night . |
| 27 | Naturally Matilda was put in the bottom class , where there were eighteen other small boys and girls about the same age as her . |
| 28 | I was put in the bottom class . |