Example sentences of "[modal v] be put [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure to gain the consent of opposition parties and the improvement in the situation led to the dropping of the second proposal in 1934 and the Cabinet then decided that the matter should be put on ice unless the position deteriorated and immediate legislation was thought necessary . |
| 2 | Mr Fowler said there was no reason why businesses and jobs should be put at risk by workers called upon to strike when they had no dispute with their employer . |
| 3 | Holmes says that there should be no further sailings until the problem is sorted out : No one else should be put at risk . |
| 4 | Right , they 're accusing him to be claiming to be God and they actually say they actually say their decision is that he 's guilty and should be put to death , they 've condemned him to death . |
| 5 | Fresh material should be put into water and allowed to drink for several hours as soon after cutting as possible . |
| 6 | Following a special audit and an investigation by the police fraud squad , the Attorney General recommended that Cariscot should be put into receivership . |
| 7 | Mr Justice Latham adjourned sentence on Allitt until May 28 , saying it was vital the public heard in court from the Regional Health Authority and the Department of Health ‘ what consideration has been , is being and will be given to determine what these lessons should be and how they should be put into effect . ’ |
| 8 | Given the conventional wisdom that any change in tax affairs should be put into effect before 5 April , allied to Bernard 's natural impulsiveness and Laura 's love of buying and doing up old houses , the haste with which the Ashleys moved out of Britain in the spring of 1978 is easily understood . |
| 9 | The agreement recited that John had left all his estate to his executors by his will but that , shortly before his death , he had declared in the presence of several witnesses that he wished his widow to have the cottage for her life or so long as she continued a widow ; and that , though this wish was never put into writing , the executors were convinced that it was his desire and were willing and desirous that it should be put into effect . |
| 10 | The Home Minister , Mufti Mohammad Sayeed , recommended that its proposed reforms should be put into effect . |
| 11 | The committee felt strongly that preparations should be put in hand immediately to offer such counselling to the children whenever their return might be . |
| 12 | The hail of invective that followed defeat in Norway should be put in perspective . |
| 13 | ‘ Labour says too many people go to prison at a time when the public believes more people should be put in custody , ’ he said . |
| 14 | There was no desperate urgency , I said , but wheels should be put in motion . |
| 15 | On the TV show Something Else , Joe Strummer once suggested that band managers should be put in concentration camps . |
| 16 | what monitoring systems should be put in place to assess whether more efficient health care provision has been secured as a result of the White Paper ? |
| 17 | The reason for the change is the huge increase in the output of children 's books — in 1970 just over 2,000 titles were published , last year just over 7,000 — and the organisers have now decided that a new method of selection should be put in place . |
| 18 | The story about the holiday and the car accident were put about , even told to his wife in the beginning , so that none of the others still in Poland should be put in danger . ’ |
| 19 | The parents ' right to dispose of their child overrode considerations of the child 's own rights : it was accepted that children should be put in care while the parents made up their minds whether to relinquish them or not . |
| 20 | No agreement would be signed which did not " stipulate concrete measures aimed at preventing the repetition of the genocidal regime " , and the " Pol Potist ringleaders " must be put on trial . |
| 21 | A number of samples in excess of the calculated number must be put on storage to enable tests to be repeated when unexpected results are obtained . |
| 22 | But he points out that recent high points must be put into context : ‘ The current colour magazine campaign began in 1980 and is as strong now as then . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The figures must be put into context — it 's £6.8m on information out of a total education budget of £9.5 billion . |
| 24 | I do not have to defend MDL , but the argument must be put into context . |
| 25 | As with the adjective , the finite verb must be put into relation with another word , in the case of the finite verb its subject , in order to define the support to which the lexeme is applied . |
| 26 | It is essential that a thorough selection trawl of new books is made , because important titles must be put into stock before they have a chance to go out of print , and because the first year or two after publication is the time that books are usually in most demand . |
| 27 | Once this has been done the terms must be put in order of energy . |
| 28 | ‘ We 're not laying claim to a social plan just for the pleasure of doing one , but because we believe accompanying measures must be put in place and the occasion must be seized to explore all possible avenues towards preserving the maximum employment , ’ the representative is quoted as saying . |
| 29 | Detailed procedures for safeguarding against loss or damage and recording title documents must be put in place . |
| 30 | A system of management must be put in place for the new firm which : ( a ) does not diminish the influence over the firm 's affairs which individual partners have formerly enjoyed ; and ( b ) which ensures that particular attention is given to those matters which proved most difficult to agree during the course of the merger negotiations . |