Example sentences of "[was/were] put [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Meat and animal-based foods were put forward as the most nutritious form of sustenance and this propaganda changed the shape of generations . |
| 2 | This is reckoned to be the largest exercise of its type since the reforms were put forward , blood pressure started to rise , nostrils began to flare and so on . |
| 3 | More trade-union sponsored Labour candidates were put forward in the 1929 General Election as unions recognized the failure of industrial action . |
| 4 | Proposals were put forward for new houses and development around the barn ; but because the barn itself was ignored , there were fears for its future . |
| 5 | Eventually , alternative ways of relating to the social fund were put forward and Council agreed on a policy of ‘ impartial advocacy ’ . |
| 6 | Of those who resist cable she says ‘ just remember that the same arguments were put forward against ITV over 25 years ago ; they were wrong then and they will be wrong again . ’ |
| 7 | Various ideas were put forward , including the suggestion that the council should keep it on themselves or that it could be re-enacted by actors or schoolchildren . |
| 8 | The proposals to create new types of pan-European entity were put forward in a consultative document issued jointly by HM Treasury , the Home Office , the Registry of Friendly Societies , the Charity Commission and the Department of Employment . |
| 9 | Instead two were put forward in East Ham and two in Southend . |
| 10 | The idea , which originated in a 1947 United States Commission on the Freedom of the press , found an echo more recently in Britain , where similar ideas were put forward by some leaders of the Labour party . |
| 11 | Economic revitalisation and improvements in the people 's living standards were put forward as major goals rather than ‘ class struggle ’ . |
| 12 | The idea of providing proper station buildings was not forgotten , however , in 1988 , planning began in the hope of attracting grant aid and alternative designs were put forward for a new building . |
| 13 | This was recently completed and three proposals for restoration were put forward ranging in cost from £8 million ( $12.8 million ) to £15 million ( $24 million ) , the difference between a cosmetic shoring-up and a full-scale renovation to include regilding of the statues and the construction of a visitor centre on the site . |
| 14 | The rousing campaign for free trade in the 1840s impinged upon many abolitionists especially when proposals to equalise and reduce duties on sugar entering Britain , whether it originated in free-labour or slave-labour economies , were put forward . |
| 15 | Counter arguments were put forward that schools and LEAs could influence attendance , intake ability , streaming , teaching styles , levels of classroom management and involvement of parents , all of which directly and indirectly influenced pupils ' behaviour . |
| 16 | Accompanying the policy , the RTO put forward a ‘ Strategy for Action ’ , in which criteria for the selection of the two hospitals to be targeted for early closure were put forward . |
| 17 | Proposals that wages should be linked directly to age were put forward by labour unions in the later 1940s as a way of establishing a wage profile that reflected the increasing levels of housing or educational spending , but the slope of the female wage profile shows that the age/wage connection may not be universal . |
| 18 | Suggestions were put forward on corporal punishment , a crime of vandalism , special constables , violence on television , community homes , school activities , controlling obscene displays , and parental responsibility . |
| 19 | Fresh demands for participation were put forward , and these generated fresh discussion about this supposedly obsolete concept . |
| 20 | Proposals were put forward by the owners during the 1980s for the development of the site and were opposed by Save Britain 's Heritage . |
| 21 | Radical proposals were put forward in the 1965 White Paper , The Child , the family and the Young Offender . |
| 22 | These recommendations were not accepted in total , and alternative proposals were put forward in a series of White papers that involved a more complex change . |
| 23 | When the radical proposals on general practitioner fundholding were put forward three years ago they were not enthusiastically received by most of the medical profession . |
| 24 | Many such ‘ solutions ’ were put forward during the 1950s . |
| 25 | Suggestions were put forward for possible entertainers . |
| 26 | Tentative proposals for research towards highly interactive systems which adapt themselves to individual users and uses were put forward in 1984 . |
| 27 | Throughout the century proposals for the creation of some kind of reserve of seamen were put forward , all of them without success . |
| 28 | Various more or less precise suggestions as to the structure of such a federation were put forward by different writers in the earlier years of this period — by the Quaker William Penn in his Essay towards the Present and Future Peace of Europe ( 1693 ) , by another Quaker , John Bellers , in his Some Reasons for an European State ( London , 1710 ) , by the author of the anonymous Cardinal Alberoni 's Scheme for reducing the Turkish Empire to the Obedience of Christian Princes ( London , 1736 ) and by Saint-Pierre himself . |
| 29 | The Lord Chancellor 's proposals to cut eligibility for legal aid were put forward with no prior consultation . |
| 30 | Suggestions were put forward for possible entertainers . |