Example sentences of "to put [pron] on [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Firstly , although Wessel ( 1797 ) and Argand ( 1806 ) had tried to make complex numbers a little more respectable by showing how to interpret them , their addition and multiplication geometrically , there remained , possibly because of doubts concerning the intuitive use of geometrical arguments , the desire to put them on a firmer basis . |
| 2 | I 'd put that out with them two tapes and take to Julie to put them on a big tape for you . |
| 3 | They were in costumes that , in spite of their crumpled shabbiness , recalled the garb of Count Arnheim in the opera of ‘ The Bohemian Girl ’ , and looked like fugitive kings and emperors beside the thick-set railway porter , in capacious velveteens , whose duty it was to put them on the right track towards the ‘ free land ’ . |
| 4 | Mr Jim Woolsey , a member of Scowcroft commission and one of the Democrats ' leading missile experts , says it makes much more sense to put them on the vast military bases of Nevada and California , where they could be continually on the move . |
| 5 | I 'm not trying to put them on an equal par , but later Maxwell erm Action Group were concerned with four hundred and eighty million disappearing . |
| 6 | He spoke as man to men , dominating them with his prestige , without trying to put himself on a lower level , as do those who form a false picture of the people . |
| 7 | The rich North Italian industrial city of Turin has decided to put itself on the international map with a biennial art and antiques fair to be held at the Lingotto , the spectacular former Fiat car factory , from 27 February to 7 March . |
| 8 | A seventeen year old , bright and intelligent enough to put herself on an equal footing with her father . |
| 9 | And believe it or not we 've got to put him on a high chair to enable him to manage his instrument . ’ |
| 10 | This appears to put him on the right side of the new rulers , even if Steaua were answerable to one of Ceausescu 's brothers . |
| 11 | Simple as sneezing to put him on the defensive . |
| 12 | You would n't mind if he married your daughter , but you would n't want to put him on the front page . |
| 13 | It 's very much the last attempt — not er , not for , from the point of view of negotiating or er , but , but simply a matter of fact , er we need erm we need to move , we need to have additional sources of , sources of income , that er the type of facility that we 're looking to build will give the club to put it on a firm financial footing , and at the same time to give the local people of the City and er the , the surrounding County er tremendous new facilities . |
| 14 | When we ger this fantasy football stuff going , would we be able to put it on a different server . |
| 15 | ‘ There is a big future for this club , and I intend to put it on the right footing . |
| 16 | But , carrying baskets of buffalo dung from the pit by the cattle shed , along the road and down towards the mango tree to put it on the furthest field , my nose was burnt before I 'd walked twenty yards . |
| 17 | However bad a landlord , there is a crucial rule that needs to be kept in mind if you do n't want to put yourself on the wrong side of the law . |
| 18 | After the Istanbul Biennale last autumn , it is the turn of the Greek art dealers to make a bid to put themselves on the international map . |
| 19 | They are increased now obviously but erm , you know to put anything on a tuppeny fare then was well a ha'penny which was twenty five percent on terrible , every year we were going for a fare increase and in those days you really had to go through the Traffic Commissioners . |