Example sentences of "[be] put to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But now , a few litres of Finish 'Em would be put to the service of a more crucial domestic task , the elimination of Mrs Farr . |
| 2 | If not , the proposal would then be put to the Council of eleven member states for a qualified majority vote . |
| 3 | Right , the , I was , about to er come to that , erm the erm , there is no reason why a group should not have more than one prisoner erm , the practical situation is that , that groups are queuing up to , to get a prisoner at the moment in fact , erm , not always the situation but at presently there is a waiting list for who have groups to have a prisoner allocated to them , erm , if we so wish er , ah , if , if a group comes onto the list who has er , ah , and their prisoner is released and , and we , we er in that situation we , and any group without a prisoner at all goes to the head of the list and be allocated straight away , but we could request a second prisoner and that case would be put to the bottom of the list , so when the other groups who , who 've got no prison will take priority now , but we , we could request a second prisoner if we so wanted so you are talking about a motion at the A G M , but it 's not really necessary |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This last fact means that many aspects of Salibi 's theory can not as yet be put to the test . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In a system that is lightly-stocked problems like these should not occur , but accidents will happen and your system 's ability to deal with them will be put to the test . |
| 12 | But that will be put to the test today by Hartlepool , who have lost only once away from home all season . |
| 13 | That 's where his fragile temperament would really be put to the test . |
| 14 | In an attempt to boost a moral and economic recovery , the government had announced that the renaissance of a country ‘ fit for heroes to live in ’ was to be put to the test in the spring of 1924 . |
| 15 | The second argument had a more practical flavour and consisted simply of a demand that the issue should be put to the test of an election . |
| 16 | Will a new electoral system eventually be put to the test of a referendum ? |
| 17 | But which of us is right can easily be put to the test . |
| 18 | He suddenly remembered that Stephen Blufton 's information about drug smuggling was due to be put to the test that day . |
| 19 | We can exist and function well without love but , alone , we will never be put to the test , never be asked to grow in a certain way , never be stretched to the full . |
| 20 | That will be the point at which the Minister 's lip service to buy-outs will be put to the test . |
| 21 | Just as speeches by ministers made in association with the passage of an Act of Parliament are of little or no interest to a judge when he comes to interpret the law , so it is highly unlikely , though the matter has yet fully to be put to the test , that the Court of Justice will take much notice of intergovernmental pronouncements or agreements . |
| 22 | An extensive training programme is also run , where management skills , public speaking and debating , to name a few , can be put to the test . |
| 23 | Mr Ridley was trying then to scare councils into lower spending , and no doubt hoped his threats would never be put to the test . |
| 24 | Her own susceptibilities were n't about to be put to the test . |
| 25 | That is the theory , at any rate , and it is one that will now be put to the test by two league games , against Motherwell and Hearts , and two cup-ties , domestic and European , with FC Brugge and Arbroath , all within the next 12 days . |
| 26 | THE effectiveness of the children 's hearing system in Scotland will be put to the test in a three-year research project , commissioned by the Scottish Office at a cost of £200,000 . |
| 27 | A defence of this kind , a claim that the purpose was only to frighten and not to cause harm , requires the full definition to be put to the jury . |
| 28 | The majority held that , whilst an honest but unreasonable mistake would negative liability , such a defence should be put to the jury only where the defendant expressly asserted belief in consent and where there was some evidence beyond his mere assertion . |
| 29 | It referred to the regional strategy which is currently out for consultation but was an emerging document and copies of that were again appended to the briefing paper it outlined the county council 's procedures which were followed in progress in the structure plan it outlined a programme establishing the weight of opinion of objectors it indicated our process in preparing policy amendments to be put to the panel and all those matters were made public It also requested the panel 's view on the role of county council members at the enquiry in public the responses to that were not made public and were in fact a question which was clearly put to the panel . |
| 30 | Whatever may be the effect of the Practice Direction read against the word of the statute the present case was clearly one where the judge , if he had a discretion about the matter at all , should have allowed the convictions to be put to the witness . |