Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] put into " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his horizons were dramatically broadened when he joined British Steel and was asked by the late Lord Melchett , who was then chairman , to reorganise the fourteen widely dispersed companies that had been put into the same melting pot under the nationalisation programme . |
| 2 | She had her own flat , at Coleherne Court off the Old Brompton Road — bought with money that had been put into trust until her eighteenth birthday — which she shared with girlfriends . |
| 3 | There was evidence that Barlow Clowes investors ' money had been put into shares in James Ferguson , run by Mr Clowes ' ally Guy von Cramer . |
| 4 | The victim had been put into the lower of two bunk-beds at about 9pm the night before by his father , Mr Alan Robinson , 52 . |
| 5 | If half the funds and the intellectual effort which has gone towards developing strategies for finding alternative families had been put into what we can only lamely call preventative work there would be unquestionable advantage to all concerned . |
| 6 | Imports were almost exclusively from Germany , but it is obvious that much thought had been put into their acquisitions , for the next dog to be imported was Ossman v Frankofurtia in 1930 . |
| 7 | This idea had been put into practice in 312/311 BC by Seleucus I , the Hellenistic ruler of Babylonia . |
| 8 | Anger began to grow , fuelled by the possibility that because certain extremists seemed to go out of their way to look for signs of Satan in every aspect of everyday life , people living quiet , caring family lives had been put into a state of terror and agony . |
| 9 | She said her own worries had been put into perspective by a visit shortly before his death of Lord Cheshire . |
| 10 | Once the top section had been put into place and its edge tucked in as close to the body as possible , the lip of the base tray was eased towards the sides of the upper half and the joint soldered . |
| 11 | By now , many hundreds of man-hours had been put into the Packard Merlin and much had still to be done . |
| 12 | Whitlock had driven to the airport a couple of hours before the delegation was due to arrive to ensure that all the security measures had been put into operation . |
| 13 | For several weeks the project had been the talk of Polruan : the Russell had been put into extended refit , volunteers had been sought by extravagant promises of Spanish prizes and — to prove that this time Harry 's adventure was to be more than just talk — two six-pounder sakers and a couple of falconets had been delivered aboard a hoy from Plymouth , and hoisted onto the Russell 's deck under Harry 's personal supervision . |
| 14 | Nationalisation was not new to France — the railways had been put into State ownership in 1937 — but support for economic planning had grown during the war as a way towards national renewal , greater investment and improved working conditions , and also as a way to punish businessmen who had collaborated with the Nazis . |
| 15 | The record industry is a notoriously chauvinistic business , but almost from the outset women had been put into positions of power and seniority at Virgin . |
| 16 | Lenin 's ‘ new model of socialism ’ , they argued , had been put into effect during the 1920s , but then replaced by a Stalinist system which had ‘ created an alienation of the individual from ownership , from power and from the results of his work ’ . |
| 17 | All this gave strong grounds for believing that the body had been put into the sea near the house on stilts about the time of high water on Friday night . |
| 18 | Now the piece had been put into a polythene bag and given a label pending its despatch for forensic examination . |
| 19 | This did not in practice apply to landless labourers or peasants with very little land , a large and growing element in the rural population ; but if it had been put into effect it would none the less have been the most sweeping social legislation seen anywhere in old regime Europe . |
| 20 | The all-party talks on Oct. 12 proved inconclusive , and on Oct. 29 the SLFP withdrew its support for such talks , claiming that it had lost confidence in the government 's will to solve the country 's problems and that none of the opposition proposals had been put into effect . |
| 21 | Although no details of its terms were made available , officials declared that it would form the basis for future formal bilateral links , which had been put into question after the collapse of the 1982 Confederation of Senegambia in September 1989 [ see pp. 37062 ; 37801 ] . |
| 22 | At the very least , the employee may need to show that the customer began to make an active search for an alternative supplier when be became aware that the patented article had to undergo important technical refinements after it had been put into use . |
| 23 | Once the original cease-fire had been put into effect in 1988 , both parties found themselves with immense tasks of reconstruction to contend with and little , apart from their battered oil-export systems , with which to finance them . |
| 24 | The problem was that it was NOT cough syrup , but a hefty dose of Thawpit cleansing spirit that had been put into the medicine bottle , probably because it was the left-overs from a bigger can . |
| 25 | By then , the girl had been put into the temporary care of foster parents by Wirral Council . |
| 26 | Social workers had been called after the incident and L had been put into the care of foster parents under a place of safety order . |
| 27 | But I thought John had been put into a job that in fact he was born to and getting his teeth into |