Example sentences of "put it at " in BNC.
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1 | According to Eurotunnel it is £7bn ; the contractors put it at £7.5bn . |
2 | Whereas the government publicly estimated the cost of meeting EC water standards at £3–4 billion , City sources put it at £22–32 billion over 11 years . |
3 | Duke reckoned it at a mile and three-quarters ; the most conservative estimates put it at over a mile . |
4 | But I put it at the bottom of the list and consider it can really be done without . |
5 | Turn the card over and put it at the bottom of the pack |
6 | The Peacock Committee was convinced that it was no longer possible to recommend ‘ no change ’ to either the licence fee system or the funding structure of broadcasting as a whole ; the differences between the two sources of revenue would create recurring crises for the BBC and put it at a competitive disadvantage compared to the ITV structure . |
7 | It would not comment on the potential value of the joint venture but published reports put it at around $3,000m , adding that Cable & Wireless and Telstra would share 40% , Benpres would take another 40% , and the rest would go to smaller investors . |
8 | The official census gives the figures for the number of Chinese Muslims as fifteen million but independent estimates put it at between 30 and 40 million . |
9 | Connon picked up the plastic bag , opened it , put it at the edge of the table and swept the items into it with one efficient movement of his hand . |
10 | Tess bravely made a little cross and put it at the head of the grave one evening , when she could enter the churchyard without being seen . |
11 | It does n't sound quite so good when you put it at that sort of level , cause it puts a school at risk , but of course there 's no reason why a county council should n't borrow considerably more than this council does , looked at on accounting principle , unless I 'm wrong , and Mr I 'm going to call in a minute , will correct me if I am . |
12 | Estimates put it at 40,000 million gallons of flood water . |
13 | I seemed to remember he had one and put it at the back of one of his chairs , and |
14 | So they got him a tent , and they put it at the top of my mum 's garden . |
15 | In fact put it at the back somewhere I think pong . |
16 | Another accident we had with an a wardrobe two of my lads had which was a funny one in retrospect but I some when you carry a wardrobe , funnily enough , the easiest way often if you 've got a tight corner , you know as you go round a corner in a staircase you 'll come from a landing and often turn right or turn left to go down , if you put it at an angle like that then you wo n't get it round the corner without catching the bannister . |
17 | Erm , well I put it at the . |
18 | And you can mass type , erm mass headlines , and we do negative type leading and all the rest , but you have to add up that extra descender space and put it at the bottom of the headline . |
19 | Perhaps this is a challenge to put it at the centre of our lives , to think about it and , this Lent , to read the story as if we were there . |
20 | Yet the story of Hagar 's flight furnishes another example of Abraham treating the promises of God very lightly , to put it at its mildest . |
21 | What the voters perceived and clung on to , especially in London , was that there has been a revolution in Britain in the 1980s and that it would be foolish to put it at risk because of deeply felt resentment at the recession . |
22 | ‘ Well , I did n't have anywhere else to put it at home ! ’ |
23 | The Angelina , to put it at its most kindly , was a rather striking-looking craft . |
24 | Is his work , to put it at its bluntest , a throwback to an age long past , a magnificent but doomed attempt to breathe life into fossils ? |
25 | ‘ it was an unusual opportunity , to put it at its lowest , and that it is to be inferred from the evidence that it was one which was of particular interest to the Perot family . |
26 | I would like to have it very much because music is one of the great pleasures in life to me but I just have nowhere to put it at the moment . |
27 | ‘ Then tomorrow , you can take it down to the oven and tell them to put it at the bottom , so it -cooks really slowly , to keep it moist . ’ |
28 | To put it at its highest , I was in no more than so-so shape by the time I reached Caduta 's . |
29 | That is , to put it at its most basic , the respondent is at least an adequate reporter of his or her attitudes , beliefs and other subjective states , his or her relationship with others , past , present and intended behaviour , and about objective features of the respondent 's life . |
30 | You 've got to put it at chest height |