Example sentences of "be put to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The committee gave permission for Arthur Withet , aged sixty-one , to be put to stone-breaking , and ordered iron bars to be placed across the windows in the senile ward . |
| 2 | If the company is listed , the London Stock Exchange ( and the ABI if its members are involved ) will wish to approve the resolution to be put to shareholders . |
| 3 | Sir Hugh Byatt , Dragon 's chairman , said last night : ‘ The 39.71 per cent support for the Dragon offer suggests that the reconstruction proposals may not , therefore , be put to shareholders for approval . ’ |
| 4 | Unlike other single women , Elaine can not stay out late at night : she has to be home in time to be put to bed by a nurse . |
| 5 | Max and I were delighted with the result , but when I got back to the hotel I was taken violently ill and had to be put to bed . |
| 6 | I collapse over my lamb chops and have to be put to bed . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , I 'm not going to be put to bed by you — let's get that straight for a start ! ’ |
| 8 | Right you 'll be put to bed without any supper tonight . |
| 9 | NALGO branch secretary Mike Swinburne said a compromise proposal would be put to members this week . |
| 10 | Assuming that satisfactory financial arrangements can be made and Planning Permission obtained , the scheme will then be put to Members for final approval . |
| 11 | ‘ There are certain eternal values which can not be put to referendum , ’ he announced . |
| 12 | It was led by Tonu Anton and intended to write a new constitution by Nov. 15 which would then be put to referendum . |
| 13 | If only the head and deputies , on the other hand , can be involved ( a limitation which is sometimes unavoidable unless lengthy and massive planning subgroups are to be put to work ) then they , as managers , must make sure that the decisions about sharing are understood within their schools . |
| 14 | A circular to shareholders was also posted with LASMO 's Report and Accounts containing proposals to be put to meetings of the Ordinary and Preference Shareholders on 25th May 1993 for the creation of 10 million cumulative dollar preference shares of US$25 each ( Dollar Preference Shares ) in the Company . |
| 15 | CONFLICTING views over the future of Scotland 's biggest local government area , Highland Region , will be put to Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , in Inverness today . |
| 16 | Once legislative proposals are sufficiently advanced to be put to Ministers for endorsement they will go before the Legislation Committee of the Cabinet which must give its approval before a place is found in the programme . |
| 17 | Mr Major 's plan , to be put to EC bosses in Brussels today , cuts the total and increases Britain 's contribution by only £150 million . |
| 18 | He is now an experienced manager and we want that experience to be put to Celtic 's use . ’ |
| 19 | Who comes along and says he 'll pay for everything to be put to rights ? |
| 20 | Was that not the whole burden of his song , that nature needed in some way to be put to rights , and that it was man 's job to see it was put to rights ? |
| 21 | Mother was furious and demanded the situation be put to rights . |
| 22 | All Spaniards , and all those who sheltered them , he declared , were to be put to death . |
| 23 | ‘ Ask yourselves , ’ he questioned the jury , ‘ is it possible that two exceptionally strong and stalwart officers could be put to death so easily by just one man and a mere youth , or would it have taken at least three if not four men to overcome them and cause such severe injuries ? , |
| 24 | Jesus has just stated that he had to go through great suffering ; to be rejected by the Jewish leaders ; and to be put to death and to rise again . |
| 25 | There is the further consideration that if after a Jury has deliberately decided that a person ought to be put to death , the Home Secretary should nevertheless find it his duty to recommend clemency , there would appear to be a conflict between the Crown and the Jury . |
| 26 | If they married outside their own caste , they could be put to death . |
| 27 | Its a , during the course of the time of the crucifixion , Jesus is on the cross and its says there , there were two others also who were criminals , were being lead away to be put to death with Jesus and they came to the place called The Skull , there they crucified him and the criminals one on the right and the other on the left , but Jesus was saying father forgive them for they do not know what they are doing , and they cast locks divided up his garments among themselves and the people stood by and looking on and even the rulers was sneering at him excuse me , and even the rulers were sneering at him saying he saved others , let him save himself if this is the Christ of god , his chosen one , and the soldiers also mocked him , coming up to him offering sour wine and saying if your the king of the Jews save yourself now there was also an inscription above him , this is the kind of the Jews , and one of the criminals who was hanged there was hurling abut at him and saying you are not the Christ , save yourself and us , but the other answered and rebuking him said do you not even fear god , since you are under the same sentence of condemnation and we indeed justly for we are receiving what we deserve for our deeds , but this man has done nothing wrong and he was say , and he was saying Jesus remember me when you come in your kingdom , Jesus said to him truly I say to you today you shall be with me in paradise I wonder if you 've ever been in that awful position of facing of what you thought was certain death perhaps you were seriously ill and er , there seemed little hope of your recovery , perhaps you were facing some danger , some , some risk and it seemed almost certain that short of a miracle you were gon na die , I wonder what sort of thoughts would have been going through your mind , maybe w , may well be that you were with other people , I wonder what sort of things if you were in a condition of speaking , what sort of things you would of been saying to them . |
| 28 | In 790 a Northumbrian nobleman , Eardwulf , was captured and brought to Ripon where orders were given by Aethelred for him to be put to death outside the gates of the monastery . |
| 29 | ‘ I think it 's lovely , ’ said Camille , wiping away a tear as she thought of the joyful , urgent creatures , little more than puppies , having to be put to death . |
| 30 | Even so , there is a note of baleful realism in his injunction that : none of our own sons should in any circumstances cause any [ of our grandsons ] accused before him to be put to death , or corporally mutilated or blinded or tonsured against his will , without lawful trial and inquiry . |