Example sentences of "[vb mod] be put [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many services do not need to be provided by local authorities ; they could and should be put out to competitive tender to be provided by private contractors — from refuse collection to school meals provision and old people 's homes . |
| 2 | And even those could be put down to excessive grief at the loss of his wife . |
| 3 | In the first flush of enthusiasm following these unprecedented claims there was a very strong tendency to identical dreaming exclusively with REM sleep , presuming that any lack of identification of dreaming with eye movements could be put down to experimental error . |
| 4 | If he had been born in Australia or Lithuania or even Manchester , Sheikh al Hassan could have ejected his minion on to the street in the sure knowledge that it would be put down to robust good humour . |
| 5 | They will realise they can not change everything ; the hours spent re-inventing government or shifting paradigms will be put down to youthful inexperience . |
| 6 | No I mean I I do n't think what happened on Piper can be put down to basic safety . |