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
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