Example sentences of "[noun] put [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1943 , the annual conference carried a motion suggesting all local branches put forward their own candidates for municipal elections . |
| 2 | But he had made it complete with fossils and dinosaur skeletons buried under the earth ; red herrings put there to expose those of little faith . |
| 3 | About 240–230 B.C. Eratosthenes put together Carthaginians , Romans , Persians and Indians as the barbarian nations that came closest to the standards of Greek civilization and specified that Carthaginians and Romans were the best governed ( Strabo 1.4.9 , p. 66 ) . |
| 4 | Those animals put down had a merciful release . |
| 5 | Hydro said it would have lost an estimated 195 million kroner in 1992 if accounting changes had not freed about two billion kroner of reserves put aside for future tax obligations under the old accounting system . |
| 6 | In Japan it still sells more than all other British cars put together . |
| 7 | Mass production dates from the time of Henry Ford , who was the first man to adopt the principle of the production line , when he used this approach to produce a restricted range of motor cars put together in a flow-line process . |
| 8 | He replied that since the words put forward related to the past the later debts ought not to be considered to be in the legacy . |
| 9 | When Maxim Gorki as a young man read a story by Guy de Maupassant , he marvelled ‘ why the plain , familiar words put together by a man into a story about the uninteresting life of a servant moved me so ’ . |
| 10 | Did you have the words put down ? ’ |
| 11 | Similarly , prospective employees know better than to rely on landscaping or other signals put out by employers and attempt , instead , to find out the inside story from their contacts . |
| 12 | In the 1987 West German election eleven tiny parties put up candidates . |
| 13 | I understand that , but the substance of what is at stake in this election is the policies that the parties put forward … ’ |
| 14 | The advantage of the group system is that it ensures that members of the respective parties put forward clear cut views at the meetings of the council . |
| 15 | I hope this excluded ‘ young ’ Winston Churchill who seems to be doing more for the miners than the opposition parties put together . |
| 16 | They could have done it last Friday put up with mind |
| 17 | Can you or any of your readers put forward ideas that would account for these oddities ? |
| 18 | Theoretically they mark a stage in the formation of organic soils , but as neither mosses nor lichens put down penetrating roots , and earthworms are lacking , organic material remains mostly superficial . |
| 19 | It is fiercely partisan , often embarrassing to read , and its anecdotal methods put even Darwin 's in The Descent of Man to shame . |
| 20 | Does he further agree that the report condemns the trendy , discredited methods put forward by Labour and calls for a return to traditional teaching ? |
| 21 | This had been one of the demands put forward by the Eco-glasnost group at public protests in Sofia in October 1989 . |
| 22 | Also , although some of the demands which had been made in 1381 were echoed in the later risings , in none of them was there anything so clear-cut in the way of a social programme as the demands put forward at Mile End and Smithfield . |
| 23 | The National Executive had recognized , temporarily , most of the organizational demands put forward in the paper since its foundation . |
| 24 | Overall , little more than half of them were serious candidates put up by Fianna Fail , Fine Gael , Labour and the Progressive Democrats , and on the ballot paper they were not listed for convenience of identification in party groups ; the other candidates were outsiders . |
| 25 | Though fascist candidates put forward a strong campaign in the London County Council elections of March 1937 , their six candidates for the three two-member divisions of Bethnal Green North East , Shoreditch and Limehouse were defeated and they received less than 20 per cent of the vote . |
| 26 | The amendment also provided for the election to public office of independents and candidates put forward by " organizations with recognized representation " , and allowed for the recreation of the post of Prime Minister ( the functions of this post having been taken over by the President in 1979 ) . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 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 ) . |