Example sentences of "[noun] that would put " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over in Nottinghamshire , Hucknall Town are marking their elevation to the Central Midlands League by producing a programme that would put many full-time clubs to shame . |
| 2 | Frank also gave Crawford the opportunity to dream up stunts that would put his previous daredevilry in the shade . |
| 3 | The food there did n't taste too different and we were spared a cabaret but I reckon £30 is n't too high a price for eating in a beautiful , traditional-style Moroccan room with the well heeled jet set , being served by obsequious waiters in costumes that would put to shame Aladdin 's chorus at the Palladium . |
| 4 | She thought of the long , black car gliding up to the great white building where they were going to hold the conference that would put an end to war for ever . |
| 5 | Resisting the idea that results should somehow be ‘ doctored ’ to reflect such circumstances , the Group fell back on the suggestion that LEAs or governors might be expected to issue statements that would put the results of particular schools in the right context . |
| 6 | RUSSIA and Ukraine were on a collision course last night as President Yeltsin signed a decree that would put the Black Sea fleet into Russian hands , directly contradicting an earlier order from President Leonid Kravchuk . |
| 7 | RUSSIA and Ukraine were on a collision course last night as President Yeltsin signed a decree that would put the Black Sea fleet under Russian control . |
| 8 | RUSSIA and Ukraine were on a collision course last night as President Yeltsin signed a decree that would put the Black Sea fleet into Russian hands , directly contradicting an earlier order from President Leonid Kravchuk . |
| 9 | Here in May 1942 — before the raid on Dieppe that August — plans were being made for the landings in North Africa that would put an American Task Force ashore on the Atlantic coast near Casablanca , a second force ashore at Oran in the Mediterranean , and a third further east at Algiers . |
| 10 | One reason is a lack of feed-back by Managers that would put some perspective on these Schemes . |
| 11 | My time is extremely valuable , and I am not going to be kept waiting here while people like patients take up five or 10 minutes when I shall not be earning at a rate that would put the salary of Members of Parliament to shame . |
| 12 | An American retaliatory strike would either have to be launched before the incoming missiles arrived — a policy that would put nuclear war on a hair trigger and increase the chance of a mistake — or would have to consist of submarine-launched missiles which are only accurate enough to cities . |
| 13 | Steven Redgrave , so dead set on a third consecutive rowing gold that he 's trained through four months of a stomach illness that would put many of us in hospital . |
| 14 | Mr Houghton 's ambition is to raise return on equity to 17–20% within five years , a performance that would put Corning into the top 25% of Fortune 500 companies . |
| 15 | It would be a Labour government that would put into effect the Act of 1944 , and much else besides . |
| 16 | Looking older than her one hundred years , this diminutive locomotive had a working life that would put some main line locomotive to shame . |
| 17 | If he plays today , the former England skipper is likely to play in front of the back four as anchor man , while his colleagues search for the away goal that would put the dour Muscovites under pressure . |
| 18 | I could not pursue a conversation that would put me in the degrading position of having to ask Otto to fill in further gaps in my knowledge and understanding of my own lover . |
| 19 | He was always careful to wash his chiselled visage , of course , but in a year of passion one would think some small scent would have escaped , a tracking odour that would put her senses on alert . |
| 20 | No brief can be held for any solution that would put France and Western democracy influence out of Indo-China or leave natives believe US indifferent . |
| 21 | It would create a further fact that would put Israel on the spot . |