Example sentences of "put [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all put down to nature . ’ |
| 2 | At higher temperatures ( ca 500°C ) the linewidths and peaks change , which they put down to disorder as some zinc enters the copper particles to form a dilute brass . |
| 3 | Mhm , when I started in here er I just got put up to work beside one of the women , she just showed me , |
| 4 | I would remind Ben that I put up To Bolt or Not To Be , a widely recognised 8b/c , in November 1986 ; that I have since climbed more than 20 routes of this level or more ; that I repeated the roof at Volx fairly easily in 1990 ; and that I have since put up two more 8cs — Huevos in 1991 and Macoumba Club recently at Orgon — in addition to Just Do It . |
| 5 | It is the alternative recommendation that we put forward to housing committee last week . |
| 6 | Unable to effect a landing , the French satisfied themselves with an attack upon the Cawsand fishing fleet and were then compelled to put back to sea . |
| 7 | There were as many as twenty-four vessels in Table Bay , all anxiously waiting to put out to sea ; boats loaded with African fruits for the London Market were in a sad plight , as the extra time on board would not improve the fruit . |
| 8 | This is easy enough with record sheets and drawings , which can simply be photocopied or put on to microfilm , but is far more of a problem with a photographic record comprising hundreds or thousands of slides and photographs . |
| 9 | For whatever reason , he had been put on to piece-work at age 21 , Here we have a documented example of the difference between the stab hand and the linesman . |
| 10 | Almost all women were in practice put on to piece-work as soon as they had " learnt the case " ( that is they followed the pattern of the male apprentice Chalmers ) . |
| 11 | Rafaelo Falah , a Libyan-born Jew who lives in Rome , was downing his houmous alongside Israel 's tourist minister in the ceremony put on to welcome the Libyans to Israel . |
| 12 | Extra buses were put on to cope with the increase in numbers ; the school restaurant overflowed and three new cafés opened near by in the Camberwell Road . |
| 13 | As she could hear Jack coming down the stairs she returned to the kitchen and picked up the metal spoon and plunged it into the saucepan which she had not yet put on to heat . |
| 14 | If this is okay with you I 'll send them to SBP to be put on to tape . |
| 15 | Germany put in to practice its social ideology and policy in a much more vigorous way than Italy did . |
| 16 | At about the same time the red blotches on her Louisa 's face also disappeared — which the doctor put down to coincidence . |
| 17 | For two or three hundred years British pastures were widely being ploughed up and put down to grain to feed a fast-growing human population . |
| 18 | If anything she seemed even more voluble than usual , which Zen put down to embarrassment . |
| 19 | Er , the only authority that was given was the authority to arm the officers by Mr which he would have put in to writing , er he was aware as to the method of entry to the of the flat but that no authority , no written authority was given for that . |
| 20 | What happened at the 13th is put down to fortune . |
| 21 | Above all , the evening 's success should be put down to music which never ceases to delight by the sophistication of its continuity , by its sheer inspiration . |
| 22 | This figure understated the case ; much more land had been put down to pasture and the tenants had been forced to leave . |
| 23 | In others of these theories the large basins are produced by bodies which come from beyond the Earth-Moon system , in which case the smaller number of large basins on what is now the lunar far side has to be put down to chance , which is just plausible . |
| 24 | If the stall occurs above about 500 feet , the accident can be put down to lack of awareness and poor stall and spin recovery training . |
| 25 | Poor attendances were put down to lack of big names . |
| 26 | There is , however , a worrying trend that is perhaps best put down to enthusiasm . |
| 27 | It was , presumably , drafted and engrossed by persons of reasonable educational standard , and the eccentricities ( to modern eyes ) in the orthography can not be put down to illiteracy . |
| 28 | Also , when you deprive your body of food , it prefers to derive the energy it needs from your muscle tissue as well as your fat stores — therefore any weight loss can be put down to loss of lean muscle , not just flab ! |
| 29 | It 's usually put down to practice ! |
| 30 | This means that fewer cereal crops ( such as oats ) are grown and more land is put down to grass . |