Example sentences of "[vb mod] be put [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If they 're thinking that , they should be put straight , ’ said Rachel grimly . |
| 2 | Simply people who believe that a wrong was committed , which should be put right . |
| 3 | " I see that you have n't been properly introduced , " he said , " and that must be put right at once . |
| 4 | That is the first area that must be put right . |
| 5 | But that could be put right , now , with the traditional builders sand . |
| 6 | I am reasonably good with my hands and with your guidance I 'm sure my lovely old guitar could be put right . |
| 7 | In the eyes of a deckhand in his twenties who joined the " Sunderland Union " in the days of John Beresford and who was already a member of the Australian Seamen 's Union , it seemed little more than a " miscellaneous collection of beards and whiskers " including " old greybeards of sixty , seventy and eighty years of age , with little idea of how to conduct business " , who " reflected the pessimistic outlook of their leaders , supposing that everything was wrong and that nothing could be put right " . |
| 8 | Within a few years that same young man had determined that things could be put right and that he was the man to do it . |
| 9 | The last point could be put right , wasting more space , by adding a potential link field to every record . |
| 10 | However , if the breach concerned some trifling defect , perhaps a mere technicality , which could be put right very quickly and easily , the term would be classed as a warranty . |
| 11 | After a few years in management , you know who they are , and it will be put right . ’ |
| 12 | Friendly , helpful service will be with you within 24 hours — and things will be put right a quickly and efficiently as possible . |
| 13 | Will the Home Secretary expedite his consideration and either grant a posthumous pardon or at least instigate a public inquiry , so that what is regarded as the greatest injustice of our post-war criminal justice system left unremedied will be put right before the last member of the Bentley family dies without knowing the result ? |
| 14 | I want to welcome obviously particularly er the order relating to Wales because it confers on Wales er one additional seat , giving us five altogether because of the rise in the Welsh population over the last ten years and that er although Wales was under represented under the previous erm er you know distribution of seats which gave us only four we will be slightly over represented when we have five because you simply ca n't have four and a half seats , it 's got to be one or the other but since the Welsh population is continuing to rise very rapidly then it is likely that that will be put right . |
| 15 | In rewriting , the spellings can be put right , and the finished piece of work is more likely to be accurate . |
| 16 | To the chair reasons for my concern here and reason for my asking her whether she will now agree to a full investigation of this service at to be conducted by councillors and for the council to be satisfied that the service can be put right . |
| 17 | I 'm hoping that this might lead to an improvement but I still please ask you all to keep me in touch with where things are going wrong so that they can be put right . |
| 18 | There 's a whole range of things from the Foreign Office downwards where they have made mistakes costing many millions of pounds and we shall certainly be wanting to take evidence from this area of activity just to see what went wrong and how it can be put right and how we can prevent this sort of thing happening in the future . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It is very enjoyable but one of the disadvantages is that when you start out you can be put low on a list after others and you may have to wait some time . |