Example sentences of "[be] put to [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sovereign legal rights of the French crown could , if and when required , be put to good political use in undermining the authority and prestige of the king-duke within his duchy . |
| 2 | For it had occurred to me that the proposed trip in the car could be put to good professional use ; that is to say , I could drive to the West Country and call on Miss Kenton in passing , thus exploring at first hand the substance of her wish to return to employment here at Darlington Hall . |
| 3 | Woodworm and beetle infestation makes much of it unsuitable for structural work but treated and cleaned up with an adze to give it the right period look , much of it could be put to good decorative effect . |
| 4 | But if disaster is to be averted , time bought needs to be put to good economic use . |
| 5 | The first principle is that only the minimum amount of data necessary is held or , in other words , only data which will be put to regular constructive use . |
| 6 | Yet the primate hand , particularly in the case of man , who has retained ( or , more accurately , re-acquired ) a generalized , unspecialized hand , can be put to many other uses than merely grasping branches . |
| 7 | It was Peirce who first termed such expressions indexical signs , and argued that they determined a referent by an existential relation between sign and referent ( see Burks , 1949 ) Peirce 's category in fact included rather more than the directly Context-dependent expressions that are now called deictic or indexical , and his particular system of categories has not been put to much effective use in linguistic pragmatics ( but see e.g. Bean , 1978 ) . |
| 8 | They 're also tied by a covenant which prohibits the stadium from being put to any other use . |