Example sentences of "he [verb] forward a " in BNC.

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1 This leads him to put forward an alternative , three-point scheme for understanding the individual 's conscious and subconscious behaviour and its relation to the social world .
2 Zoophilus had not been able to acquire a copy of Vial 's plan but he put forward a plan of his own for an animal hospital , for a regular set of teachers forming a school , and provision for receiving living subjects in various states of disease .
3 Last week he put forward a ( disappointing ) programme to overhaul the schools ; next week he homes in on campaign finance and national service ; some day soon , welfare reform .
4 So he put forward a plan of action to the Shah .
5 Is , is he putting forward a collectivist idea ?
6 He puts forward an ethic consisting of habits of mind and of behaviour to which he thinks one will inevitably move to the extent that one has rational insight into the human situation and is under the control of that rational part of one 's nature which gives one unity as a personality .
7 ( Indeed in the same passage in the Commentary he puts forward an argument — which might well be used in favour of the ordination of women ! — that order pertains to the soul , and the soul is without sex ; a point , interestingly , to which he makes no response .
8 However , had he put forward a radical package , with organisational , administrative and hierarchical implications , he might have encountered resistance .
9 Edward was now looking at the river with great intensity ; he leaned forward a little , as though to see something better .
10 He pushes forward a pointless bishop 's pawn .
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