Example sentences of "were put [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The guests were put up in the Inter-Continental Hotel which overlooks the stretch of the Landwehr Canal into which the Freikorps threw the dead body of Rosa Luxembourg in 1919 .
2 They were put on to the French market one at a time with intervals between the sales .
3 Does the hon. Gentleman accept that , if he is as keen as I am to provide a level playing field for road and rail , he should recognise that , when motorways were built around Greater Manchester , of three footpaths that crossed the motorway , one was closed or diverted and bridges or underpasses were put in for the other two .
4 The shoes were put in as a simple outline drawing in pencil and the background spaces around them were painted with a mixture of cerulean blue and titanium white .
5 As for Mr 's point that Not Mr b Steven 's point that the erm figures for the strategic guidance for West and South Yorkshire were done on a different basis , those figures with the exception of Sheffield , were erm figures that were put in by the local planning authorities , the Secretary of State accepted those figures , they were done on the nineteen eighty five based household projections , coupled with different assumptions about vacancy rates and demolitions etcetera , and the Secretary of State accepted those figures .
6 There were serious disturbances in Beirut and Tripoli which were put down by the new Lebanese administration with the help of French troops .
7 The riots were put down by the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , with support from Serbia , in an apparent rebuttal of the Croatian authorities ; observers noted that this was the first time that the JNA , whose officer corps was dominated by ethnic Serbs , had been used to put down violence outside Serbia itself .
8 It is also possible that many advertisers were put off by the political tone .
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