Example sentences of "be put [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a way , it has to be put down to mutual dependence . |
| 2 | Likes and dislikes can not be put down to pure genetic inheritance alone . |
| 3 | They will realise they can not change everything ; the hours spent re-inventing government or shifting paradigms will be put down to youthful inexperience . |
| 4 | No I mean I I do n't think what happened on Piper can be put down to basic safety . |
| 5 | If he had been born in Australia or Lithuania or even Manchester , Sheikh al Hassan could have ejected his minion on to the street in the sure knowledge that it would be put down to robust good humour . |
| 6 | And even those could be put down to excessive grief at the loss of his wife . |
| 7 | In the first flush of enthusiasm following these unprecedented claims there was a very strong tendency to identical dreaming exclusively with REM sleep , presuming that any lack of identification of dreaming with eye movements could be put down to experimental error . |
| 8 | Existing waste disposal operations will have to be put out to private or arms-length companies so the local authority 's policing role can not be mixed with its disposal role . |
| 9 | Picton-Howell had worked hard for the project since the early days , and had kept her old job as London office administrator on Equal Opportunities grounds that the post should not be put out to competitive interview after capitalization . |
| 10 | Many services do not need to be provided by local authorities ; they could and should be put out to competitive tender to be provided by private contractors — from refuse collection to school meals provision and old people 's homes . |
| 11 | However , the 1988 Local Government Act requires that a local authority 's cleaning and maintenance work be put out to competitive tender : this is likely to result in fewer of these staff being employed directly by the LEA in future . |
| 12 | The agreement was cancelled because it should have been put out to competitive bidding . |
| 13 | Is he aware that that has not been the case in large parts of the national health service , where food , cleaning and laundry services have been put out to competitive tender , and where , as a result , standards have often fallen far short of what they ought to be ? |
| 14 | Word had been put out to surrounding hospitals that all casualty admittances with leg injuries were to be reported . |
| 15 | Nor was the agoge , or rigid training system , a good way for generals , or anybody else , to learn initiative ; great Spartan successes like the first battle of Mantinea ( 41 8 ) are put down to Spartan gnome , ‘ resolution ’ , almost ‘ guts ’ — rather than leadership . |
| 16 | When detailed drawings of the scheme had been prepared , they were put out to competitive tender and the resulting offers were assessed by the Department of the Environment against a ‘ cost yardstick ’ related to similar newly built accommodation . |
| 17 | The report said that £20.2m was spent unlawfully on highways maintenance since 1988 as it was carried out by Lambeth Direct Labour Organisation ( DLO ) without being put out to competitive tender . |
| 18 | The fact that peasants seized opportunities to enrich themselves is put down to sheer good sense , an unproblematic response to structural changes , while the conviction that the Camisard prophets and prophetesses spoke with the voice of the Holy Spirit is regarded as obviously serving some psychological function . |