Example sentences of "[noun pl] were put [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does the hon. Gentleman accept that , if he is as keen as I am to provide a level playing field for road and rail , he should recognise that , when motorways were built around Greater Manchester , of three footpaths that crossed the motorway , one was closed or diverted and bridges or underpasses were put in for the other two . |
| 2 | The shoes were put in as a simple outline drawing in pencil and the background spaces around them were painted with a mixture of cerulean blue and titanium white . |
| 3 | The grey trousers were put on in the month of March last and the white waistcoats in May . ’ |
| 4 | The guests were put up in the Inter-Continental Hotel which overlooks the stretch of the Landwehr Canal into which the Freikorps threw the dead body of Rosa Luxembourg in 1919 . |
| 5 | Youth provision is , is a county council responsibility not a city council responsibility although for your information Mr , without the er zodiac youth centre grant in the ninety one , ninety two figures er , two hundred and thirty nine thousand one hundred and sixty six pounds were put in by the city council into that s , into that specific area in the Humberstone ward and the amount that was put in there in this financial year was approximately the same , but the reason being that there is no mar more money available is because hundreds of thousand of pounds were cut out of youth and community facilities that should have been provided by this city council by the Tory budget which this council approved last February . |
| 6 | More than forty thousand people were moved from the old city centre to make way for the new buildings , but even though stereotyped blocks of flats were put up around the site of the palace and were in many cases completed by the spring of 1988 , they remained empty until after the revolution . |
| 7 | WHEN wood shavings were put down on the floor in the Key Street post room it all proved too much for , left , and . |
| 8 | One or more levels were put in from the side of Levers Water to carry out a shallow sub-surface investigation of veins which appeared to be untried , or suspected to be covered at outcrop . |
| 9 | Demonstrations were put on by the Institute of Aquaculture and the departments of Environmental Science , Education , Psychology , Biological and Molecular Sciences , Japanese Studies , English Studies and Information Services . |
| 10 | The anti-Hoxha demonstrations were put down by the police and troops with increasing force , and on Feb. 23 it was officially reported that two demonstrators and a policeman had been shot dead when a crowd reportedly tried to storm the Tirana military academy ( the opposition claimed up to 30 dead , and attributed some of the shooting to clashes between rival pro- and anti-reform factions within the army ) . |
| 11 | The sash windows were put in at a later date but the glazing bars still follow the lines of the mullions and transoms and look particularly well . |
| 12 | These decent working-class houses were put up in the 1770s and 1780s , where land was cheap and when building materials were plentiful , wages in the building trades relatively low , and money relatively cheap . |
| 13 | In later years some swings were put up for the school , but that was after my time . |
| 14 | The riots were put down by the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , with support from Serbia , in an apparent rebuttal of the Croatian authorities ; observers noted that this was the first time that the JNA , whose officer corps was dominated by ethnic Serbs , had been used to put down violence outside Serbia itself . |
| 15 | But ministers were put off by the cost . |
| 16 | That day 20 horses were put out of the race at the smallest fence on the course . |
| 17 | Faced with that dilemma the plaintiffs chose to endeavour to run the business to an early sale and that is what they did my Lord and er the premises were put back on the market er in the early part of nineteen eighty six and er it is pleaded that er in in paragraph six statement of claim , that in May er a buyer came forward but that sale did not go ahead er because there were unreasonable delays on the part of the purchaser erm and er the deal fell through but then again in July er after the business had ceased trading , another buyer was found and then there was a lengthy period of negotiations at the conclusion of which the sale price was reduced because at that stage the plaintiff 's landlord was going to increase the rent er and the plaintiffs were at that stage under threat of forfeiture and eventually contracts were exchanged on the sixth of November nineteen eighty six the sale price being eighty one thousand five hundred and er completion was on the fifth of December nineteen eighty six . |
| 18 | In the following year , 100 nest boxes were put up in the wood , with the result that , in 1985 , no less than 60 pairs bred . |
| 19 | Thirty of farmer Alan Gerrard 's brutes were put down after the weekend attack on Beverley Hurst , nine . |
| 20 | All four disks were put on to the printer 's hard disk and the images were fine-tuned before the final film and plates were made . |
| 21 | It is also possible that many advertisers were put off by the political tone . |
| 22 | Rumours were put about during the strike that shipowners were threatening to import Chinese labour to man their vessels . |