Example sentences of "been put [prep] [noun] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm afraid that a lot of gardeners will have been put off coir by these spurious trials , and I really think Gardening from Which ? should publish a withdrawal . |
| 2 | Some people feel they have been put off sex by a parent 's clear disgust . |
| 3 | It is little wonder that fundamentalist sects have a field day welcoming in disillusioned people who have been put off Christianity by forms of Anglicanism which offer so little and demand nothing . |
| 4 | It will accelerate moves towards quality labelling and higher standards , and despite the sensationalising of what is in fact a minor problem , Watchdog emphasised the good points of fishkeeping , showed an attractive tank and made it clear that one family at least had not been put off fishkeeping by their mishap . |
| 5 | German plans to remove bromine and chlorine from leaded petrol have been put on hold by the EC , which is concerned that the new environmental measures may result in explosions . |
| 6 | MINERS at Point of Ayr colliery are angry that a £7.5m investment programme has been put on ice by British Coal . |
| 7 | Great pressure has recently been put on clinicians by hospital managers and politicians to reduce waiting times . |
| 8 | Stolen valuables ranging from jewellery to model trains have been put on display by police . |
| 9 | Claims that unusually large numbers of cataracts , cancers and other eye diseases in sheep , cattle and rabbits in southern Chile are due to overexposure to ultraviolet radiation ( as a result of ozone depletion over Antarctica ) have been put into question by a study conducted by researchers from John Hopkins University and Chilean health and veterinary authorities . |
| 10 | The firm has been put into liquidation by it 's owners , who say they ca n't afford to pay redundancy money . |
| 11 | Parallel importing : where articles have been put into circulation by or with the consent of the right owner , he can not use his rights to prevent the subsequent import into another EC country even though he may be selling those articles to himself in that other country . |
| 12 | She said her own worries had been put into perspective by a visit shortly before his death of Lord Cheshire . |
| 13 | The following aspects of Securities Market Regulation have already been put into place by the EC . |
| 14 | In response to a pervasive loss of faith in mid-Victorian economic liberalism , a string of measures had been put through Parliament by Conservative and Liberal Governments in concession to the case against unregulated laissez-faire and for intervention on social grounds by the state . |
| 15 | An entire town centre has been put under surveillance by nearly a hundred video cameras , in the battle against crime . |
| 16 | He accepted they had thought the flat was empty and had been put under pressure by Allen to start the fire by squirting petrol through the letterbox . |
| 17 | He insisted that there was no fundamental change in the view the British public took of the monarchy and that the Queen had not been put under pressure by the Government to pay taxes but had volunteered . |
| 18 | A dozy , family-run business which faced bankruptcy in 1985 , had been put to rights by the application of sound Thatcherite principles . |
| 19 | you ca n't hear me , right , ok , I 'll try and speak up a little bit louder , erm my work , I work erm here and I work abroad and I live in Durham , er I 'm a writer and erm one of the things that I 'm most interested in is using art as an inspiration for my work as a , as a writer and I 'd like to be able to show you by this talk , how I do that , erm , I have a few publications , my work 's performed by a local group actually based in Newcastle and I 'm a member of er a group called Another Story and my work 's been put to music by a composer and er a play and the play and sing that , that the pieces of |
| 20 | The career of the talented Widnes half back has been put in jeopardy by back injuries and he saw a specialist yesterday . |
| 21 | If Cambodians fear the Khmers Rouges enough , they may forgive the Phnom Penh government for having been put in power by the Vietnamese . |
| 22 | They have all been put in danger by a Government of incompetents led by a master of mediocrity . |
| 23 | If he had been born in England he would have been put in care by now . |
| 24 | But at that and the second Westminster election , he had been put in office by the DUP . |
| 25 | A substantial package of help for the Soviet Union , totalling over $11 billion worth of emergency aid in 1991 , has now been put in place by the Group of Seven , under my chairmanship , and the European Community . |
| 26 | The managerial arrangements that Sir Roy Griffiths reviewed in 1983 had been put in place by the reorganisation of 1974 . |