Example sentences of "put at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Put at its simplest , they were voting for the countryside . |
| 2 | As the larger chart shows , two of the three issues on which the Tories ' most improved their position between mid-March and Thursday were inflation and taxation — the issues they put at the heart of their propaganda effort . |
| 3 | Put at its baldest , Jackie was a young man on the make . |
| 4 | The general theoretical discussion on concepts and definitions is therefore — perhaps surprisingly — put at the end . |
| 5 | Put at its lowest , a single-minded and unrelenting pursuit of a policy , however right , however important , may be counter-productive in that it may alienate the very people whom it is sought to convert . |
| 6 | Protester Richard Keeble , a Labour member of Braintree District Council , said the number of people having their water supplies disconnected — which they put at nearly 2,000 — meant more would be suffering from ill health including dysentery . |
| 7 | Put at its simplest , it was jealous suspicion , for when she had looked through Barbs 's windows she had seen Memet 's straw hat sitting on the sill : he always put his hat on the window-sill . |
| 8 | Put at its most simple , this means knowing how to listen , being aware of how messages might be received , presenting oneself clearly so that others know how to react to us and rewarding achievement . |
| 9 | John replying to these resolutions on behalf of the C E C. Before I kick off I to reply to them I put at the top of my scribbled notes three words poverty hardship and loneliness and I think those three words typify and sum up what the majority of these resolutions are all about in this retarded society that we 've lived in er under in the last fourteen years . |
| 10 | Human rights church groups and surviving inmates accused police of carrying out deliberate and systematic executions , blaming them for most of the deaths ( which they put at between 200 and 400 , as against an official toll of 111 inmates killed and 35 inmates and 22 police officers wounded ) . |
| 11 | When you write an essay what you typically do ( put at its simplest ) is gather material and then arrange it . |
| 12 | Investors can take out a combination Pep , allowing them to choose the balance they want between the two plans , though they have to put at least £500 in each one . |
| 13 | But some irresistible compulsion drove him on to hazard again the life he relished so much , and to put at risk my happiness as well . |
| 14 | For the non-colinear case , Hauser and Ernst have found it convenient to work with the complex function Z defined by ( 11.5 ) and to use the transformation ( 12.20 ) which consists of a rotation and rescaling to put at the point of collision when and . |
| 15 | If you do n't do so you are also likely to put at risk the closeness of your own relationship with them . |
| 16 | However , Novell , which claimed it was acting on the urgings of its customers , is expected to press the integration and interoperability of NetWare and Unix , the development of common management framework and common application framework ABIs to put at the service of third-party software developers and mission-critical accounts intent on rightsizing and employing distributed solutions . |
| 17 | Baldwin contemplated all this at Aix , and made up his mind both to go for protection and to put at risk the first independent Conservative majority for two decades . |
| 18 | Well they 'll probably have to put at least the bone in there , it 's a bone graft . |
| 19 | She has , I understand , some knowledge of Mrs Marr which she 's kindly consented to put at our disposal . ’ |
| 20 | We had left behind in Kent two well paid jobs and a nice semi ‘ d ’ with brand new kitchen extension , full rewiring and replastering and new central heating but the thought of living in our very own railway station was enough to put at least my mind at rest . |
| 21 | I have already explained , I think three times , in the hearing of President Delors why this Government are not prepared to put at risk the striking progress that has been made in industrial relations in this country since 1979 . |
| 22 | Erm , the next bit of , that I want you to find which is the address and telephone section , that also , I 'd like you to put at the front of the active binder . |
| 23 | Barlow Clowes collapsed in June 1988 putting at risk £190 million of investors ' money . |
| 24 | In 1957 Fortune magazine published a list of America 's richest men , putting at the top the shy , reclusive , almost unknown J. Paul Getty , who turned out to be living in a modest room at the Ritz Hotel , London , conducting his world-wide oil business through the hotel switchboard with the minimum secretarial help . |
| 25 | Do n't forget it is not just ourselves we are putting at risk . |
| 26 | Goodman contended that the RCM was putting at risk the interests of the Jewish faith by its readiness to enlist help from the Christian community . |
| 27 | Each sneeze from a nose streaming with cold can blast more than one million bugs into the air at speeds of up to 125mph , putting at risk anyone within a 10-metre range . |
| 28 | Home-mover from Newbury Building Society gives house purchasers a discount on the standard mortgage rate of 10.75% for a year if they are putting at least £20,000 towards the price . |
| 29 | Shadow health minister Dawn Primarolo warned : ‘ The commitment to yet more opting out is a leap in the dark , putting at risk the very foundation of the NHS . |
| 30 | The Socialist parties of the Six attacked it for putting at risk the trust that had developed within the Community and for seeking to return to the ‘ outworn concept of the absolute sovereignty of states ’ . |