Example sentences of "put [adv] by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my discussions with the police , it was one of the buildings we offered them , and I went with erm , the new inspector to look at that , and I still said they were somewhat put off by the cold austere sort of feeling of the place . |
| 2 | The People 's Militia has been busy ripping down posters put up by the Civic Forum in factories and elsewhere . |
| 3 | The People 's Militia has indeed been busy ripping down posters put up by the Civic Forum in factories and elsewhere . |
| 4 | Can he compare these facts about the national health service with the fictions put out by the Labour Front Bench ? |
| 5 | A wide range of sources has been sifted to reconstruct the changing ideas and goals of the masses : private correspondence and letters to the press , contemporary reports in the metropolitan and local press and the myriad publications put out by the new organizations which sprang to life after February , memoirs and official reports , conference protocols and records of the countless resolutions passed in grass-roots meetings in the villages , at the factory gate , in soldiers ' committees and local soviets . |
| 6 | I remember reading the novel as a child , when it made a great impression on me , but the deplorable pastiches and plagiarizations put out by the mass media have obliterated my memory of the original details . |
| 7 | We could make it worse by insisting on the sort of minimum conditions put forward by the Labour party , conditions that would disadvantage the very people whom Labour says they are designed to protect . |
| 8 | You find often , it 's the erm , political party , I mean , I know two and who were both erm , names put forward by the Labour Party |
| 9 | We are working within a straight jacket imposed by central government , but our choice was that budget , for all its faults in totality , for the fact that it was half a million less than it could be , and the budget put forward by the Labour party who had totally refused to negotiate on their budget , and therefore we ought to look at that budget in detail to see what was on offer , because it was n't very pretty . |
| 10 | The George Street scheme put forward by the Labour Group 's a crazy scheme really . |
| 11 | Juvénal Habyarimana ) and the 70-member National Development Council ( CND ) , whose members are also directly elected for five years from a list of candidates put forward by the sole legal party , the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ( Mouvement révolutionnaire national pour le développement — MRND ) . |
| 12 | The President 's term of office is five years , as is that of the 83-member Assembly , elected by universal suffrage ( most recently in December 1985 ) from a single list of candidates put forward by the sole party , the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde ( Partido Africano da Independência de Cabo Verde — PAICV , founded in January 1981 , when it broke away from the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau , whose rule in Guinea-Bissau was overthrown in 1980 ) . |
| 13 | Legislative power is exercised jointly by the President and the 70-member National Development Council , whose members are also directly elected for five years from a list of candidates put forward by the sole legal party , the National Revolutionary Movement for Development ( MRND ) . |
| 14 | And the other reason they do n't want to turn up is primarily because they do know that we have compulsory purchase powers and the planning — the paper put forward by the Chief Planning Officer today was a vindication of wage for a good many years , a good many months rather , that we do have compulsory purchase powers and we are able to use them and it was specifically asked at the Panel today , by both Monty Finnist and Sir Monty Finnist and Tony Christopher , why does n't the City Council market this site and use its compulsory purchase powers and that 's one question to address tomorrow as a politician who could make that decision . |
| 15 | A restructuring plan , put forward by the 47 banks owed £1.5 billion by Brent Walker , needed the approval of 75 per cent of the company 's bondholders . |
| 16 | We had to answer technical questions put forward by the new investigating judge , Dr Rosario Priore and his appointed Commission of experts made up of 10 Italian , British , German and Swedish avionics and radar experts , ’ says Steve . |
| 17 | support conservation moves put forward by the International Timber Trade Organisation |
| 18 | In doing so they favoured a more flexible approach than that contained in the proposals put forward by the European Commission . |
| 19 | They favoured a rival draft of the bill , put forward by the nationalist Matica Slovenska organization , which called for Slovak to be the sole official language . |
| 20 | A final list of key issues is prepared from all those suggestions put forward by the individual planners through informal discussions . |
| 21 | And this an argument that 's often put forward by the National Farmers Union , and other agricultural lobby groups , essentially erm , er , , it 's saying to sort of er , the European Community when they 're price setting , look there 's no point in you er , reducing agricultural product prices , cos all that 's going to do is increase supply . |
| 22 | All Governments like to have the opportunity of introducing guillotines at certain times , but that desire should be resisted for the good reasons put forward by the hon. Member for Wolverhampton , South-West ( Mr. Budgen ) . |
| 23 | The Touche Ross study concluded that all but one of the four alternative plans for single-tier councils put forward by the Scottish Office in a consultation document would lead to savings . |
| 24 | Will the Minister join me in welcoming the proposals put forward by the provisional liquidator and the Sheikh of Abu Dhabi as a first step towards a settlement of the problem ? |
| 25 | The proposal , put forward by the Inter-American Development Bank ( IADB ) , appears to be aimed at defusing the strong US opposition on environmental grounds to the North American Free Trade Agreement ( NAFTA ) between Canada , Mexico and the United States . |
| 26 | The Committee is not convinced that the proposal for ‘ Community Supervision Orders ’ [ CSOs ] put forward by the Royal College of Psychiatrists will provide the solution for ensuring patients receive the care they need . |
| 27 | The conservation measures put forward by the British and Belgian colonial authorities were highly demanding of labour and moreover symbolised the logic of expropriation and more general exploitation by the colonial powers . |
| 28 | The proposals , put forward by the Advisory Committee on Business and the Environment , include increasing the duty on petrol , increasing vehicle excise duty in line with engine size , reducing value-added tax on fuel-saving equipment , setting minimum standards for energy efficiency of household appliances , obliging car manufacturers to improve the efficiency of engines , and encouraging the development of combined heat and power generating stations . |
| 29 | Prior to February 1990 a National Revolutionary Assembly comprising 206 People 's Commissioners representing socio-professional classes was elected every five years by universal suffrage from a list of candidates put forward by the ruling party , the Benin People 's Revolutionary Party ( Parti de la révolution populaire du Bénin — PRPB ) . |
| 30 | Until 1990 , the President 's term of office was five years , as was that of the legislature , which was elected from a single list of candidates put forward by the ruling party , the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde ( PAICV ) . |