Example sentences of "[noun] be put to [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much work is being undertaken there , including the renovation of outbuildings to provide accommodation for another 25 followers , and practical skills are put to good use . |
| 2 | Blues singer Greg Allman is put to good use as the big bad dealer at the centre of events , a weighty presence always just out of reach . |
| 3 | Beethoven learnt more from Haydn than from anyone , and all that he had made his own from that study is put to fascinating use here ; but the music is no reversion , and has its own lightness and gaiety . |
| 4 | The Air Force assigned 42–108777 to the Santa Maria Air Base where her two-seat capability was put to good use . |
| 5 | The only thing that stands between county hall being put to good use is the Labour-controlled Lambeth borough council , which is squandering charge payers ' money on increasingly desperate but unsuccessful attempts to prevent the sale of county hall and its productive use for hotel and residential accommodation . |
| 6 | So it was when the Germans over-ran Holland in 1940 and within three days had rounded up large numbers of Jews — the Dutch population records which included religious affiliation were put to sinister use , promptly and efficiently even without the aid of modern technology . |
| 7 | Not all coffins of this period were put to funerary use . |
| 8 | In 1967 , when the then Communist government declared Albania an atheist state , all religious buildings were put to other use or closed . |
| 9 | During these play bouts the kitten 's imagination is put to full use . |
| 10 | He became the road supervisor for his parish and oversaw the construction of a unique causeway road to Cardington ; the model cottages on his estate for industrious and sober tenants were much admired and his considerable energy and interest in education were put to good use locally . |
| 11 | But all their training that October was put to limited use , for after they had flown to Gibraltar , the Admiralty forbade any landings , the Flag Officer Gibraltar considering these would compromise security and warn the French of the invasion . |
| 12 | In the Duma and in the press loyalists were loudest in their demands that Russian interests be vigorously defended , that the massive expenditure on armaments be put to good use . |
| 13 | Their activity is put to good account by plants , just as we and other animals eat the plants or even other animals and creatures . |