Example sentences of "[noun] [subord] put [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The original text may have consisted of 153 words , but many of these are function words and a further number produces no alternative candidates when put through the simulator .
2 After wide debate , the majority of the Branches were in favour of extending the mandatory requirement of CPD to all members , but such a proposal is unlikely to get the support of the membership if put to a referendum .
3 I now use Dug , a decomposed poultry manure from Pelco , when planting and give an annual mulch of bark to the acid areas and spent mushroom compost to the rest ; it improves the body of my sandy soil and also works magnificently as a weed suppressor if put on thick enough .
4 The conflict of ideas when put to the service of organization or group goals is in fact the sign of a healthy organization .
5 There was a little more , but both handwriting and the sentence structure deteriorated rapidly thereafter , as though Chant had panicked , and scrawled the rest while putting on his coat .
6 Georgi Markov , the Bulgarian dissident writer , recalled the first speech given by a new factory director which could have been given by any Romanian middle-ranking cynical conformist when put in charge of an operation by an arbitrary decision from the top .
7 Some people in some circumstances are more likely correctly to assess the argument for authority if put at one level of generality than at another .
8 A modicum of semi-professional training defines the role as putting into practice a set of ideals inculcated in that training .
9 Frick hated being contradicted and often flew into a rage when put in such a position .
10 This suggestion certainly seems to make sense when put into the context of the story of the massacre of the innocents .
11 This command of Jesus ' for all people to come with him only makes sense when put into the context of the teaching that immediately comes before it .
12 If that sounds like a counsel of perfection , it is not meant to be , for Paul is showing the practicalities of love when put into action .
13 And although Things to Come ( 1936 ) offers a spectacular account of the horrors of mechanized warfare , no one was thinking of the native audience when putting into the mouth of Raymond Massey a description of Britain as ‘ that last dismal vestige of ancient predatory soldiery , the last would-be conquerors . ’
14 As an exercise in questioning ‘ traditional ’ ideas regarding masculinity and femininity this work contends with basics such as there is more to femininity than putting on a skirt !
15 No Labour MP matched the Tories ' views as put by , for example , Tory peeress Baroness Strange , or Tory MP Nicholas Bennett .
16 the study of management should then lead to the development of certain principles of good management , which will be of value when put into practice .
17 But it is difficult to see these factors as amounting to an absolute restriction when put against the equally well recorded government support for overcapacity and inefficient working .
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