Example sentences of "be put [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The start of the London Underground-BR Crossrail scheme , scheduled originally for 1995 , could now be put back following the decision to involve the private sector.Likely to take five years to complete , the scheme would run from Reading and Aylesbury in the west across London to Shenfield in Essex in the east . |
| 32 | We have a right to ask for it to be put back to the state it was in . ’ |
| 33 | Also , when decreasing , a pusher must be put back into the blocking rail for every stitch decreased . |
| 34 | Erm , on the basis that they should be put back into the position that they would have been had there been no breach . |
| 35 | It seems that matters have fallen behind schedule and need to be put back on the rails . |
| 36 | If the ban is approved , the contractor would have the chance to reapply in two years to be put back on the list . |
| 37 | Ferranti 's annual meeting , adjourned until 10 October , will now almost inevitably be put back for a further four to six weeks in the light of recent events . |
| 38 | Hand-reared birds can be put back in the nest once they can feed themselves , but if they 've become imprinted on a human , they may not respond properly to the other birds and the parents may reject them . |
| 39 | By refusing office , Labour would lose all the parliamentary advantages it had gained by becoming the official Opposition in 1922 ; its position in the country might be put back by a decade . |
| 40 | In the beginning , all carp were streamlined , torpedo-shaped fish , and any variation in girth relative to length ( apart from the difference between mature males and females ) could be put down to the quality of the food supply . |
| 41 | How true the tale of this lemming population might be is beyond verification ; certainly a great deal of the monastic retelling of it could be put down to the strong regional bias of Northumbrian biographers against the strange races of the deep south . |
| 42 | She hoped the hectic flush would be put down to the exertion of bending nearly double . |
| 43 | Their victory can also be put down to the lack of a co-ordinated attack by the Whites . |
| 44 | It 's success could be put down to the hard sell . |
| 45 | It can only be put down to the ravages of drink ’ . |
| 46 | More worryingly , many consumers said they did not like the taste , but much of that could be put down to the fact that many housewives had a narrow cooking repertoire with an average of only two turkey variations . |
| 47 | If this were an isolated case , it might simply be put down to an individual health authority overreacting to public embarrassment . |
| 48 | So you 'd like to be put down on the ballot to be approved do you ? |
| 49 | What about twinning , do you think that that 's of such a high priority that when council houses need repairs that those repairs should be put down on the ladder and said ‘ I 'm sorry , we ca n't deal with that because part of the money that we could allocate to council house repairs is being used for twinning and things like that ’ ? |
| 50 | Trollope nearly loses control on the subject of The Plumber , a man ‘ doubtless aware that he is odious … to be put down with the tax-gatherer as being as certain as fate and as inexorable . ’ |
| 51 | ( Y ) If a really important item appears in A.O.B. the Chairman should cut discussion short and ask for the problem to be put down as a main item for the next meeting . |
| 52 | Her mental assurances did n't seem to offer much comfort , and she certainly did n't think she wanted to be put down as an experience . |
| 53 | When , at the end of July and the beginning of August 1943 , four RAF raids practically wiped out the centre of Hamburg — Germany 's second city — in fire-storms , killing some 40,000 people , rumours spread that unrest had had to be put down by the police and SA or Wehrmacht , and that there was a ‘ November mood ’ — an allusion to the revolutionary mood of November 1918 — in the Reich which would rise up against the unbearable air raids . |
| 54 | He declined to postpone his visit to Argentina , expressing confidence that a military rebellion which had begun there on Dec. 3 [ see p. 37913 ] would be put down by the government of President Carlos Saúl Menem , whom he thanked for sending two Argentinian frigates to the Gulf . |
| 55 | He wo n't be put off with a surface answer , but he wants to know the far end of everything ’ |
| 56 | The friends of David Cunningham , such as Colonel Blackadder , had to be put off with a clear refusal , and a request to persuade Cunningham to withdraw , while at the same time every effort had to be made to engage all those gentlemen who had not committed themselves to a candidate to rally to Kirkton . |
| 57 | because validity of the section fourteen is the question for ultimate trial , we 're not seeking interim relief against that , we have n't done that my Lord that in our submission is the highest and the best that they could achieve erm properly erm which was to avoid a stay on a reference and they could then continue with the proceedings rather than be put off for a , a very , you know what maybe a year and a half , er if the court dealt with it in the normal way , or perhaps even a little bit longer , erm , but to actually go to further than that and to deny the defendant the right to put up a , a proper E E C defence , my Lord in my submission would be erm without the jurisdiction of the court . |
| 58 | In this country , delivery-ward routines vary from hospital to hospital but there 's no reason for separating mothers and their healthy babies so soon after the birth — measuring and weighing could easily be put off for an hour or two . |
| 59 | I do not believe that they would be put off by a hostile bid not being ‘ good-form ’ . ’ |
| 60 | I had arrived for my first meeting with the North Downs Steam Railway which is managed by a friendly group of enthusiasts who are not prepared to be put off by a drop of rain , even if it was one of the heaviest storms of the summer . |