Example sentences of "[prep] be put on the " in BNC.

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1 The first statue to be put on the bridge was that of St John Nepomuk , by Jan Brokof the Elder in 1683 .
2 He knew that , ultimately , he had to toe the official line because , like any other player , he could n't afford to be put on the dole . ’
3 Nobody has bothered very much with their theories which have become imaginative curios to be put on the shelf with the books ‘ proving ’ that Queen Elizabeth I was a man , Queen Victoria had a love child , and that Pope John Paul I was murdered .
4 A husband who has a demanding job , and is used to returning home to find dinner ready to be put on the table , may be distinctly put out if his wife is upstairs helping his mother-in-law onto the commode instead .
5 There 's no hope for a breathing space for the business community as far as Mr Humber is concerned : ‘ We will continue to campaign for the registers to include all sources of contamination , ’ he says grimly , ‘ and we will campaign for not just land liable to be contaminated to be included on the register , but then for that to be backed up by actual investigation of those sites and for that to be put on the registers as well . ’
6 It says a lot about the quality of US diplomatic thinking that the Americans were flattered to be put on the same level as the Soviet rulers .
7 Apart from that , the business is to be put on the market — ’
8 The hon. Member for Gordon does not seem to understand either that primary legislation would be required or that such primary legislation takes longer than five minutes to be put on the statute book .
9 New members join by requesting to participate or to be put on the mailing list .
10 They have in some cases a weekly or monthly schedule of orders to win but the long-term relationship with their customer is also of great importance and the weight to be put on the two factors at any one time calls for the exercise of judgement .
11 Environmentalists had also hoped for pressure to be put on the US over its failure to set limits for carbon dioxide emissions .
12 What sort of , erm , pressure or involvement or leadership ought to be given , or wh , yeah , what pressure ought to be put on the business sector , in order that it should sort of , conform conform is not a very good word , in order , it 's ability to contribute to the voluntary sector , and engage with it , should not be based upon individual and enlightened examples , such as I B M's , but should pull upwards the rest of the business sector , in other words , should N C V O actually says to the business sector as a whole , look , we think globally this is what you ought to be doing .
13 Clark 's Yard is soon to be put on the market for redevelopment and archaeologists are anxious that potential vital pieces of history should not be lost forever .
14 Clarks Yard is soon to be put on the market as part of Darlington council 's bid to spruce up the three historic yards between High Row and Skinnergate .
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