Example sentences of "put [adv prt] to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1	Indeed the poverty of the police resources put on to this kind of case is one of the lasting issues it raises .
2	If that change can be put down to one man it is Bob Brett , who took over coaching duties from Balazs Taroczy in February last year .
3	They will realise they can not change everything ; the hours spent re-inventing government or shifting paradigms will be put down to youthful inexperience .
4	Nor was the agoge , or rigid training system , a good way for generals , or anybody else , to learn initiative ; great Spartan successes like the first battle of Mantinea ( 41 8 ) are put down to Spartan gnome , ‘ resolution ’ , almost ‘ guts ’ — rather than leadership .
5	In a way , it has to be put down to mutual dependence .
6	These losses were largely put down to aggressive lending to domestic property and corporate sectors , both of which were now in recession .
7	And even those could be put down to excessive grief at the loss of his wife .
8	In the first flush of enthusiasm following these unprecedented claims there was a very strong tendency to identical dreaming exclusively with REM sleep , presuming that any lack of identification of dreaming with eye movements could be put down to experimental error .
9	No I mean I I do n't think what happened on Piper can be put down to basic safety .
10	The agreement was cancelled because it should have been put out to competitive bidding .
11	However , the 1988 Local Government Act requires that a local authority 's cleaning and maintenance work be put out to competitive tender : this is likely to result in fewer of these staff being employed directly by the LEA in future .
12	Picton-Howell had worked hard for the project since the early days , and had kept her old job as London office administrator on Equal Opportunities grounds that the post should not be put out to competitive interview after capitalization .

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