Example sentences of "[noun prp] put [pers pn] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , as the Canadian writer Eric Downton put it in 1986 , ‘ societies with Confucian-Buddhist roots are proving more effective in coping with the industrial and technological challenges on the eve of the twenty-first century than [ are those countries with a ] predominantly Christian-Hebraic heritage . ’ |
| 2 | As J. Wade put it in 1842 , ‘ The immorality of marrying without the means of supporting a family is a doctrine of recent promulgation . ’ |
| 3 | Jesus put it in these words , ‘ If any man would come after me , let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. , |
| 4 | As Alexander Irvine put it in 1694 : it is a Maxim in our Law , " That the King can do no Wrong " ; the Meaning whereof is not , that nothing can be done amiss that he does in point of Government , but whatever there is amiss to it , is not to be imputed to him , but to those by whose Advice and Ministry he acts ; and consequently , that not he , but they are punishable for them . |
| 5 | ‘ The gigantic power and influence of the ovaries over the whole animal economy of woman ’ , as Dr Bliss put it in 1870 , meant that women 's constitutions were believed to be inherently unstable throughout the life cycle . |
| 6 | As E. H. Carr put it in 1945 : |
| 7 | As Sir John Fielding put it in 1758 : The infinite variety of professions , trades , and manufactures joined to the army , navy and services , leave few men idle , unless from choice ; whilst women have but few trades , and fewer manufactures to employ them . |
| 8 | As Roosevelt put it in one of his homely comparisons : Say the New Deal is a tree which , as it grows , continually produces rot and dead wood . |
| 9 | As the eminent physician Henry Maudsley put it in 1874 , ‘ sex is fundamental , lies deeper than culture , [ and ] can not be ignored or defied with impunity ’ . |
| 10 | As Charlwood Lawton put it in 1693 , there were Jacobites for reformations , " That think it Lawful for Kings , and their Parliaments , to limit and explain the Nature of Prerogatives " , and he went on to advocate certain legal reforms , reform of the militia , the frequent sitting of Parliament ( Lawton was writing before the passage of the 1694 Triennial Act ) , and Parliament 's right to scrutinise and punish ministers of state . |
| 11 | As Whately Cook Taylor put it in 1874 , ‘ Hitherto , whatever the laws have touched , they have not dared invade the sacred precinct ’ , and such reluctance dictated the hesitations over passing the incest law until 1908 . |
| 12 | As the Home Secretary Ritchie put it in 1901 , ‘ To get rid of prostitution by legal enactment or by official interposition is out of the question — so long as human nature is what it is you will never entirely get rid of it … ’ , and measures such as the Vagrancy Act , 1824 , and the Metropolitan Police Act of 1839 were designed to regulate public nuisance rather than prostitution itself . |
| 13 | As the poet Heine put it in 1844 in ‘ A Winter 's Tale ’ , the land belongs to the French and the Russians , the sea to the British , but the Germans ‘ are the unchallenged rulers of the kingdom of dreams . ’ |
| 14 | As the Reverend David Davies put it in 1795 , " depriving the peasantry of all landed property has beggared multitudes " . |
| 15 | Would involving Nebamun put him in any danger ? |
| 16 | The NHS had failed to produce ‘ a uniform standard of service for all ’ , as Bevan put it in 1945 . |