Example sentences of "[noun] [be] put [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much work is being undertaken there , including the renovation of outbuildings to provide accommodation for another 25 followers , and practical skills are put to good use . |
| 2 | It is therefore a good idea not only to take note of and practise stress patterns in words in isolation , but also study to see what happens with the stress when the same words are put in various sentences . |
| 3 | Union leader Arthur Scargill said : ‘ We are asking that the 10 pits earmarked for immediate closure are put into full operational order again , immediately . ’ |
| 4 | The compound is about 800 yards from the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal , where the 12,000 US military personnel of the US Southern Command were put on full alert . |
| 5 | This continually looked at and responded to data being put into temporary text files by the VARPRO programs that were rested under tablet key file instructions . |
| 6 | Blues singer Greg Allman is put to good use as the big bad dealer at the centre of events , a weighty presence always just out of reach . |
| 7 | Beethoven learnt more from Haydn than from anyone , and all that he had made his own from that study is put to fascinating use here ; but the music is no reversion , and has its own lightness and gaiety . |
| 8 | 90% of the investment is put into NPI funds and 10% into a unit trust ( choice from panel if monthly premium , choice by adviser if annual premium ) . |
| 9 | MICHAEL HEMSLEY was nearing the end of his nine-year navy contract when the Task Force was put on red alert . |
| 10 | The Air Force assigned 42–108777 to the Santa Maria Air Base where her two-seat capability was put to good use . |
| 11 | Well after you discharged the ship cos all the blood was there and erm they used to have to wash them holds all out then and this bacon was put on open lorries and taken to London , put in the refrigerator . |
| 12 | The only thing that stands between county hall being put to good use is the Labour-controlled Lambeth borough council , which is squandering charge payers ' money on increasingly desperate but unsuccessful attempts to prevent the sale of county hall and its productive use for hotel and residential accommodation . |
| 13 | Public utilities such as electricity supply and London Transport were put under public corporations between the wars , and they were the standard form of nationalization in the Attlee government for railways , air and freight transport , coal and steel . |
| 14 | So it was when the Germans over-ran Holland in 1940 and within three days had rounded up large numbers of Jews — the Dutch population records which included religious affiliation were put to sinister use , promptly and efficiently even without the aid of modern technology . |
| 15 | Not all coffins of this period were put to funerary use . |
| 16 | When , however , some of the classes were put into single-sex groups , the girls in these groups started to score more highly again , while the girls in the mixed sex groups fell further behind . |
| 17 | Early in the war Soviet southern troops were put on high alert . |
| 18 | In 1967 , when the then Communist government declared Albania an atheist state , all religious buildings were put to other use or closed . |
| 19 | This would imply that in central southern England buildings were put to different uses and that there was a radical difference in the economy and social structure . |
| 20 | During these play bouts the kitten 's imagination is put to full use . |
| 21 | There was , according to Lord Donaldson MR " no suggestion that the room was put in proper order , the locks repaired or any offer made to Miss Tagro to allow her to resume occupation in any realistic sense of the word " ( 241 ) . |
| 22 | He therefore need not be cautioned if questions are put for other purposes , for example , to establish his identity or his ownership of any vehicle or the need to search him in the exercise of powers of stop and search . |
| 23 | He therefore need not be cautioned if questions are put for other purposes , for example , to establish his identity , his ownership of , or responsibility for , any vehicle or the need to search him in the exercise of powers of stop and search . |
| 24 | Low-income families are put at grave risk and local authorities are unable to administer the housing benefit system efficiently because they are tied to the 20 per cent . |
| 25 | THREE North Sea oil platforms were put on alert today after a cargo ship went adrift . |
| 26 | He became the road supervisor for his parish and oversaw the construction of a unique causeway road to Cardington ; the model cottages on his estate for industrious and sober tenants were much admired and his considerable energy and interest in education were put to good use locally . |
| 27 | But there were reservations , too , in Washington , with the emphasis being put on selective , not unlimited co-operation with the British . |
| 28 | Producers were put into considerable difficulty by the decision of the Ministry not to pay them full compensation . |
| 29 | It emerged yesterday that , from the moment Ferranti acquired International Signal and Control two years ago , executives were put on alert about the suspect contracts because , unusually , they involved the granting of credit on open account to sub-contractors and intermediaries . |
| 30 | The art is to put across important information without using a language or style that carries a defamatory implication . |