Example sentences of "have [be] put [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems self-evident that war , and the authority of the military and security men , have rendered most of us mere passive spectators because we are powerless to change the course of the story ; but also because in the end the war , like national public life , has been put on for our benefit . |
| 2 | The lease of Barrington Court in Somerset has been put up for sale by the Trust 's tenant , Mr. Andrew Lyle , along with his family 's surrounding freehold farmland . |
| 3 | Book Bargains Ltd , the chain of 10 specialist remainder shops , has been put up for sale by its founder and managing director , Philip Weatherburn . |
| 4 | Number 47 , Nelson Square has been put up for sale , and I understand that a buyer is interested in the property , subject to a structural survey . |
| 5 | SCOTT LITHGOW , the last major shipyard on the lower Clyde , has been put up for sale by its owners , Trafalgar House , the London-based property and engineering group . |
| 6 | The £100m West Midlands Metro project has been put back for at least a year after the Treasury imposed transport budget cuts . |
| 7 | Almost every word has been put in for a purpose and needs to be commented upon . |
| 8 | I felt sad about this as I have several friends from my Salford days in Hong Kong , but I understand a decision to carry out this action has been put off for some time , so perhaps it was a regrettable necessity . |
| 9 | The birds and squirrels in my garden come for food as soon as they hear my whistle , even though the food may not yet have been put out for them . |
| 10 | Through the centuries about twenty-five houses had been built in Ploughman 's Lane , first of all for the minor gentry , the widows and kinsmen , for instance , of the lord of the manor ; in more recent times , equally large and widely spaced dwellings had been put up for the professional class . |
| 11 | The 77,000 acre Mar Lodge Estate , which contains remnants of the ancient Caledonian forest , had been put up for sale by its American owner , John Kluge , at an asking price of £10 million . |
| 12 | At Thirsk a lamb with a broken leg had been put up for sale , and transit offences to cattle and sheep rose from no convictions in 1990 to 15 last year . |
| 13 | Mr O'Malley said a decision had been put off for 48 hours to permit a special investigation of Mr Reynolds ' allegation by Irish High Court president Mr Justice Liam Hamilton . |
| 14 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |
| 15 | Five pubs worth seven hundred thousand pounds have been put up for auction by one of the big breweries . |
| 16 | Also , there are three sites that have been put up for public consultation by the Gipsy Working Party and that 's Rockhill Farm at Chipping Norton , the airfield at Chiltern near Burford , and Standlake . |
| 17 | You may laugh , but already deposits worth £30,000 have been put down for the book and at least 5,000 people have telephoned bookshops to express an interest . |
| 18 | But he has been right in saying that urgent measures have been put off for too long . |
| 19 | It 's been put up for sale by the Gloucester Health Authority , which would like to see it renovated . |