Example sentences of "[pron] [be] put [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A note duly came at the end of September , hurtful in its brevity , frustrating in its lack of information : — thank you for the money sister which is put to good use your son being in need of shoes and all manner of apparel since he grows apace . |
| 2 | The second main body of principles governing the civil service derives from the Northcote-Trevelyan Report of 1853 which was put into full operation in 1870 . |
| 3 | A proposal on introducing an executive presidency which was put to national referendum on May 23 was defeated . |
| 4 | Think , too , about flexibility — especially if you are putting in permanent garden lights . |
| 5 | Now you 're putting in bloody flower ponds and all that sort of thing . |
| 6 | If you 're putting in new pipework , it might be easier to make all the holes before the cistern is taken up to the loft ; with a replacement cistern , it is important to make the holes in the correct position to take the existing pipes . |
| 7 | We legislate because we are put under great pressure by a new group of what I call eco-terrorists , who seek to press their opinions on politicians . |
| 8 | We 're putting in electronic fax , also image processing , and we 've built a system of information accessing called ‘ folders ’ that will let us get any type of document from anywhere around the world , whether it 's stored on an ordinary disk , optical storage device or whatever . ’ |
| 9 | This did n't matter to us , as we were putting in new pipework . |
| 10 | The king penguins , biggest in size and slowest to mature , moved into the crèche area ( off limits to visitors , but just behind the main penguin pool ) until they , too , had fledged , and they were put on public display during the summer . |
| 11 | After a brief show trial they were put in solitary confinement in appalling conditions until March this year . |
| 12 | A point to emphasize is that in each case the material was obtained from natural sources distant and sometimes remote from the places where it was put to social use . |
| 13 | Another patient had a generalised seizure after four and 11 weeks ; he was put on anticonvulsive medication and interferon was tapered to 1.25 mega units daily . |