Example sentences of "the [noun] put on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The disc-jockey put on Earth , Wind and Fire and Olivia was whisked away by a young columnist from Amritsar ; I was left talking to a rather bulbous Congress MP . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , one of the defenders put on clerical robes and jeered back at him from the top of the curtain wall . ’ |
| 3 | I see also the ideas of the desert poet who wrote : ‘ In the noonday when the sands dance and the hillocks put on their robes of the mirage . ’ |
| 4 | The story of a plot had been leaked to various newspapers , and on Sept. 19 the authorities put on public display various small firearms , improvised grenades , loudhailers , photocopying equipment and other items which they claimed were being used to make weapons . |
| 5 | A parody of this , a pseudo-democracy , is a situation in which the decision-makers put on a show of consulting those whom their decisions affect when in fact the crucial decisions have already been taken and the policies decided on . |
| 6 | They won the toss and elected to bat but no one could break the stranglehold put on them by off-spinner and former Test player , Clyde Butts . |
| 7 | It was all prepared together , the mayonnaise mixed up with it and then the mixtures put in shells and the shells put on plates . ’ |
| 8 | We when you say on the bottom , sort of was the bottom put on the side slightly ? |
| 9 | In 1936 , for example , the Museum put on two crucially important exhibitions , on Cubist and Abstract Art , and Fantastic Art , Dada , Surrealism . |
| 10 | Independent television producers are benefiting from the requirement put on the BBC and ITV to commission a quarter of all their programmes , excluding the news , from outsiders . |
| 11 | It really is advisable to get supports like these in place as soon as possible before the plants put on much growth — this way you 'll avoid too much root injury when putting them in position and you 'll ensure they 're properly sited without breaking developing stems . |
| 12 | Despite the late hour the town put on the appearance of a miniature ‘ Twelfth ’ as he and his wife Eileen and brother-in-law and election agent , the Rev. James Beggs , were paraded on the back of a Land Rover to the Waveney Road , where Mr Paisley was greeted by his 78 year-old father , the Rev. Kyle Paisley who was unable to attend the count . |
| 13 | The major put on a show of support for Fergie with other guests . |
| 14 | The price put on Russian industry comes from the government 's programme of mass privatisation . |
| 15 | The emphasis put on the respect shown by the first Ottoman rulers for the dervishes by granting them generous plots of land can also be interpreted as a denunciation of Bayezid 's policy of abolishing the rights on the and lands . |
| 16 | Local councils will then have to collate the information and send out bills with details of the valuations put on houses . |
| 17 | We were particularly interested in Pamela 's relationship with Mr. B- ( whom we call Belville , as in Giffard 's 1741 adaptation , which featured the up and coming David Garrick , still working under the soubriquet " A Gentleman " ) , the effect it has on the people around them and the pressures put on the relationship by those people . |
| 18 | The interpretation put on these results was that the latter may have an optimum level which facilitates creativeness ; though beyond that point — as seen in the seriously psychotic — it may hamper creativity . |
| 19 | The Home Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , yesterday disputed the interpretation put on Mr Hurd 's words last Wednesday but refused to say what the Government would do if it lost . |
| 20 | Although he still speaks bitterly of the pressure put on him by the authorities , in fact they never succeeded in obliging him to send the children to school ; he was not even fined as he would have been in Britain . |
| 21 | IN all my years in political and business life I have never seen anything like the pressure put on the rebels in Westminster on Wednesday night . |
| 22 | They said one MP was in tears , such was the pressure put on him by Tory whips . |
| 23 | The women wore warm skirts or trousers , the men put on jerseys . |
| 24 | going this far then the doctor put on it that going it had on it all that he hates which he takes it means either osteoarthritic |
| 25 | My falling in love with Julian was nothing to do with me , nothing to do with Julian , but part of the curse put on Bernard that his wife would become the love object of a man more attractive , more wealthy , more intelligent and of a higher status than he , so he did n't stand an earthly . |
| 26 | Despite all the restrictions put on private food production and the penalties for hoarding or stealing state or co-operative products , the peasants were markedly better fed than most people in towns . |
| 27 | Form filling applications can give this kind of information accurately , for example where an address or a telephone number is expected , so the restrictions put on allowable strings are even greater . |
| 28 | After Caldwell Lord Roskill in Seymour spoke of a very high risk of death , but he said that in the context of manslaughter caused by a car ( " motor manslaughter " ) in order to distinguish that offence from causing death by reckless driving , or at least such is the construction put on his words in Kong Cheuk Kwan v R , and Lord Roskill did uphold the trial judge 's direction which included a reference to an obvious and serious risk of physical injury . |
| 29 | ( Mostly it had not , since it was unable to acquire the land put on the market , or even to understand the complex legal processes which led to its expropriation . ) |
| 30 | And I admire and sincerely respect those who take the time and trouble to challenge the interpretation that the powers-that-be put on the fruits of scientific research . |