Example sentences of "[adv] [been] put " in BNC.

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1 Consequently these questions have rarely been put to younger members of society .
2 The Croats had apparently been put on red-alert .
3 They have all been put in danger by a Government of incompetents led by a master of mediocrity .
4 The fact that we 'd all been put together was universally accepted as a sign that the end was so close that they did n't need to keep us apart any longer .
5 None of them have been published , and they have all been put up to Ministers .
6 We found it buried in the grass and it obviously been put there deliberately to maim .
7 Over the past few years , the quality of in-service training courses for teachers has improved greatly , but I was n't prepared for the effort [ and financial resources ] that had obviously been put into the ‘ Quality in Action ’ workshop .
8 Miss Fergusson , on the other hand , had merely been put into a temper : first by the attempt to thrust some foolish meaning on to the scriptural verse ; and secondly by the priest 's brazen commercial behaviour .
9 Such contact may seriously invalidate an experiment into which a great deal of work and effort has already been put .
10 If you have n't already been put off , come on the outing to ;
11 These new towns proposed all over the country have been called ‘ a solution in search of a problem ’ by the CPRE — in other words a solution to a non-existent problem , as enough land has already been put aside for people to be housed .
12 The curse of royal divorce had already been put upon the House of Windsor years before .
13 The route the Phillips had been asked to consider had already been put to them three times and was the same as the existing one , he said .
14 The kids had already been put in voluntary care due to the car crash and I could n't get them back until three months after I came out .
15 Work on several aspects of policy for the Bill had already been put in hand in Soskice 's time .
16 Alice saw on the desk that there was a white canvas bag in which stacks of notes had already been put .
17 He did n't know that Customs had already been put on notice to clear them through .
18 One of these has already been put forward , by the CNAA early in 1982 , termed Model C. In its response to the July 1981 Green Paper , the CNAA is critical both of Model A and Model B , regarding Model A as inadequate and lacking credibility both on academic and other grounds , and Model B as too exclusive in that it creates a division between institutions substantially involved in the provision of public sector higher education and those only marginally so .
19 The torch has already been put to the kindling . ’
20 The Government claims that 10,000 miners have already been put on buses to their place of origin .
21 In addition , a " Special Period in Times of Peace " plan had already been put into effect to cope with dwindling supplies from the Soviet Union and eastern Europe , and an " Option Zero " of extreme economic cutbacks and food rationing was in preparation for the time when Soviet oil shipments finally ceased .
22 It was dark and it was late , so late that the lamps had already been put out , they hardly saw him , you know , all that sort of thing . ’
23 And and the degree to which that is consistent with the sustainable development argument that has been already been put .
24 Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities .
25 ‘ Mrs Tate , I have to ask you certain questions — questions which have already been put to others who were acquainted with Francis Garland , as were you and Doctor Tate .
26 The fence was erected in order to reinforce a fence which had already been put there by the defendants ' predecessor in title , and it did not in any event enclose the disputed land …
27 And , because of that pressure , the pressure that 's already been put on , we got good news at .
28 And , because of that pressure , the pressure that 's already been put on , we got good news at .
29 The following aspects of Securities Market Regulation have already been put into place by the EC .
30 I frowned like someone who has just been put on the spot and is afraid of making a fool of himself .
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