Example sentences of "to put [adv] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Republicans say Mr Bush 's win on capital gains suggests that the White House might be able to put together a majority of its own for budget restraint , with or without the Democratic leaders . |
| 2 | George was ever-present for nearly three seasons , became only our second post-war goalkeeper to put together a run of 100 consecutive League games ( John Jackson was the first ) , while his hundred appearances straight from his debut was the first achieved by a Palace player for over a quarter of a century . |
| 3 | Merchant bank N M Rothschild is trying to put together a consortium of City firms . |
| 4 | It may be necessary to negotiate with several different agencies , to put together a combination of services to sustain an elderly person at home for a particular period of time . |
| 5 | The teacher of history needs to learn how to put together a group of sources to target particular historical skills or concepts . |
| 6 | Advice on continuing education is available from several organisations and these may have to be approached individually in order to put together a picture of opportunities available to you locally . |
| 7 | They 're doing a , I 've got a piece of paper somewhere with it all written on , I 'll show you , they 're doing a piece of research with a company that does dictionaries and a university , to put together a load of modern usage . |
| 8 | Therefore , it 's a good idea to put together a box of essentials such as light bulbs , candles , matches , scissors , toilet rolls , cash and a note of important telephone numbers . |
| 9 | With a month to put together a programme of events for this ‘ Reading Festival ’ , things were n't going well and the organisers approached London club owner Dave Bilk — yep , Acker 's bro — who put them on to B & H. |
| 10 | But before that , it is possible , using the sources revealed by the 1910 dispute , to put together a sort of group portrait of the women compositors , as they were in 1910 , and as they continued to be over the coming years . |
| 11 | Denyer decided to put together a mix of landscapes and portraits , images that gave him particular visual pleasure . |
| 12 | At the very time this highly specialised library of books on the cotton industry was being dispersed , without even being checked against the holdings of the British Library — the book here listed is not to be found in their catalogue — the New Mills Heritage Centre was trying to put together a collection of books which would be of use to students visiting what had been , among other achievements , the home of the British calico printing industry . |
| 13 | Dawn Groves had hoped to put together a production of Joseph and His Amazing Technicoloured Dreamcoat but the amateur rights have been withdrawn . |
| 14 | Bass , for example , requires a tenant to put down a deposit of £1,000 before he can even contemplate arbitration . |
| 15 | If I regurgitate this , it is simply to put down a vote of censure from this column on ministers , particularly Douglas Hogg of the Foreign Office , who did nothing to prepare for the eventuality of oil slicks . |
| 16 | Its place at the centre of government thinking was re-emphasised in April 1939 when the RCM was told that , henceforth , each guarantor would have to put up a deposit of £50 to support the cost of a child 's re-emigration . |
| 17 | But North had at least a half-promise of another honour : Adolfo Calero revealed that the contras had plans to put up a statue of him in Managua , just as soon as they had won it back from the Sandinistas . |
| 18 | This they call the " balanced slate " , and their insistent message is that whereas under our present system a vote for a party is a vote for just one candidate regardless of his precise political stance , the operation of the STV would allow a party , or rather oblige it , to put up a spread of candidates embracing and representing all the factions it supposedly includes . |
| 19 | You do n't feel the need to prove yourself , to seek approval , to be careful what you say , or to put up a façade of any kind . |
| 20 | Two banks were persuaded to put up a lot of money , so that by the time Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V-C came to consider the action , the loans including interest totalled around £40M . |
| 21 | What better time then for the Community Action Trust , the organisation behind the Crimestoppers scheme , to put up a reward of £5,000 for the same information ? |
| 22 | Tomorrow he would tell his wife to put out a shirt of softer cotton . |