Example sentences of "[verb] be put [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The Royal Navy have intensified their patrols and the Special Boat Squadron has been put on alert . |
| 32 | In many courses , content has been reduced and a greater emphasis has been put on the acquisition of subject-related skills by the pupils . |
| 33 | The Scottish Agricultural Museum , by Edinburgh Airport , opens on 1 May and this year a new set has been put on display to show a Border herdsman 's house . |
| 34 | I agree with what has been put on the agenda of our last meeting and that should be and that should be and that is fate , you can not alter that unless you do something about it . |
| 35 | The river avon between Tewkesbury and Pershore has been put on red flood alert , it 's banks swollen by torrential rain . |
| 36 | The Rangers footballer , Duncan Ferguson has been put on probation after being found guilty of assault . |
| 37 | It has been put on the market after 600 years in the same family and is expected to fetch around £400,000 . |
| 38 | CAERNARFONSHIRE 'S plan to include a New Zealand all-rounder in their team this weekend has been put on hold . |
| 39 | Surveillance equipment has been put on all the sets which are known , added Mr Wood , but even protectionists are not allowed to carry out work around the equipment during the November-June closed season . |
| 40 | REPUBLIC of Ireland B international full back Curtis Fleming has been put on stand-by for Middlesbrough 's Rumbelows League Cup semi-final second leg at Manchester United tomorrow night . |
| 41 | Ironside , on loan for a month , has been put on stand-by after Middlesbrough keeper Stephen Pears picked up a cheek injury at Cambridge on Tuesday . |
| 42 | Hayburn Wyke Hotel , near Cloughton , Scarborough , a haunt for smugglers in the 19th century , has been put on the market at £350,000 by owner John Colledge . |
| 43 | The champagne has been put on ice at Stockton . |
| 44 | A FILLING station and car showroom group , with sites in Darlington and on Wearside , has been put on sale . |
| 45 | The award winning Blue Ball Inn at Malton has been put on the market with a price tag of £275,000 for the 30 year lease . |
| 46 | The Coverdale Hotel in the Yorkshire Dales village of West Scarfton near Leyburn has been put on the market at £275,000 . |
| 47 | Colin Scott , Rangers ' third choice goalkeeper , has been put on stand-by in a provisional squad that also contains Brian Reid but Smith 's final selection will only be evident when the players take to the field for the pre-match warm-up tomorrow night . |
| 48 | MINERS at Point of Ayr colliery are angry that a £7.5m investment programme has been put on ice by British Coal . |
| 49 | Clwyd council and the borough council had agreed to the transfer of the premises but the plan has been put on ice because NEWI , formerly under the wing of the county council , is to become an independent body from April . |
| 50 | The motion which has been put to the clubs , and backed by an emotive letter from the president , will be proposed by senior life member Ken Harris . |
| 51 | Trinity Mill , near Bagendon , is one such and has been put to a number of different uses . |
| 52 | Quite naturally , the islanders wondered if harmonious timber wolf existence included picking off one or two tasty schoolchildren as a light snack between main meals of venison , and strangely the idea has been put to one side for the moment . |
| 53 | But what worries me is that , since middle age has been put to fright , will old age descend overnight like a sudden frost on the dew ? ’ |
| 54 | At that point the cost has been counted , a shoulder has been put to the yoke , a hand to the plough , and a contract for discipleship has been signed . |
| 55 | In Virginia Woolf 's To the Lighthouse there is a long passage in which Mrs Ramsay meditates after her child has been put to bed and she is on her own : |
| 56 | Already that money has been put to good use . |
| 57 | The new park planting etcetera really enhances the area , so that 's nice to hear from the Civic Society , and they 're also saying that er they 're grateful for the newspaper collection , which their office is thinking has been put to good use . |
| 58 | Oh , the idea has been put to me many times . |
| 59 | It has been put to me that when the Act comes into force on 1st May 1975 it will make a nonsense out of the children 's hearing system . |
| 60 | Additionally , the buyer can claim damages which would be equivalent to the difference in cost of buying another similar computer elsewhere and any other expenses and losses he has been put to as a direct consequence of the breach , with the proviso that he mitigates his losses , that is , he keeps them to a minimum . |