Example sentences of "have put a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Not like her , Maggie , she has to put a lot of effort into looking nice .
2 The main difficulty is that in order to record capital the organization not only has to know what assets it owns but it also has to put a value on them , even if the ‘ value ’ is their historic cost .
3 The lady who lives in the cottage called Happylands has put a smile back on the face of her landlord .
4 Section 239 gives the court a like power in respect of a transaction by a company which has put a creditor or guarantor into a better position in the event of the company going into insolvent liquidation than otherwise would have been the case .
5 For the first time , Mr Major has put a bit of distance between himself and economic policy .
6 But he did n't say anything when I said he has put a bit of weight on .
7 In particular , a decision on the meaning of a word or phrase in a standard form commercial agreement will generally be followed because , as Lord Denning put it in The Annefield [ 1971 ] P 168 , " Once a court has put a construction on a standard form , commercial men act upon it .
8 I 'm worried that Wilko has put a distance between the fans and the team by selling popular players too often , though obviously Batty is a case in point and that was n't Howard 's fault .
9 My GP , a vegetarian who has put a seeking ear in the direction of Krishnamurti , was not unsympathetic , although he did express concern at the very stringent vegan diet .
10 To compare the two speeches , it is immediately assumed that Antony 's is the better because it has put a cover over everything Brutus had said .
11 The ceasefire in the Iran/Iraq war has put a stop to the bloodshed on the border battlefields but there is no end in sight to the Iraq regimes internal war against the Iraq people .
12 The government in order to protect people has put a stop to us collecting this money .
13 But the company has put a stop to the parties to save around £80,000 .
14 you know that 's against me as well so erm so that that in itself has put a doubt in my mind if you know what I mean .
15 The other thing one can do is once again increasingly to use food that we , ourselves , can not or will not use , and the imposition of quotas which has put a degree of extensification on dairy production , has in fact encouraged this trend .
16 Mr James has put a hold on all disposals from Eagle while he completes a strategic review of the business , which was rocked by the liquidation of Connect Parcels and the disappearance of £13.7m of funds .
17 But to get them , Midland 's board has put a price on its business , and is left with no defence against a bidder prepared to offer more .
18 Increasingly the trade in gall bladders has put a price on bears worldwide , with killings in America and Russia increasing .
19 Swaziland has put a price of US$60,000 per head on its endangered black rhinoceros .
20 REVOLUTIONARY new surgery has put a second Runcorn player on the road to an early return to action .
21 REVOLUTIONARY new surgery has put a second Runcorn player on the road to an early return to action .
22 At the same time , he has put a warning shot across the bows of the rightwing pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) , which has already committed its 88 members of parliament to supporting the minority government .
23 Midland Bank DECLINE OF A HEAVYWEIGHT The Midland 's disastrous immediate past has put a blot on its glorious history .
24 Team member Jack Tinsdale said : ‘ John was Bill 's right-hand man and has put a lot of time into the team .
25 Kylie feels that way too and has put a lot of her own money into the tour too . ’
26 ‘ My husband has put a lot of work into Maastricht and the last six months have been awful for him , ’ she said .
27 His main target was vanity , and how materialism has put a brake on the human race .
28 But looking after five-month-old daughter Atlanta has put a brake on her clothes shopping sprees .
29 Y h he has put a note through the door .
30 He has put a note through the door but unfortunately the people were out you see so
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