Example sentences of "[be] put at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though a proposed fourth game against Canada has been dropped — presumably as a gesture of appeasement — The tour runs from June 5-19 , deep into the summer break — and George Graham , Alex Ferguson , Graeme Souness and others believe their clubs should not be put at a disadvantage at the start of the following season . |
| 2 | British officials thought about banning imports of plastic waste , until the processors pointed out that they would thus be put at a disadvantage to their competitors . |
| 3 | The number of pregnancies that do not produce a viable infant but end in miscarriage , induced abortion or stillbirth or , of those that result in a live born baby with serious health impairment , can not be reliably assessed but it may be put at a much larger figure . |
| 4 | Always give the chairman of the committee and its chief officer notice of any question to be put at the council meeting . |
| 5 | For example , Article 25 of the Soviet constitution not only guaranteed citizens freedom of speech , press , assembly and demonstration , but also stated that printing-presses , paper , buildings , streets and communications facilities would be put at the disposal of the people for the exercise of these rights . |
| 6 | It never hurt to know in advance what well-provisioned castles could be put at the King 's disposal at short notice . |
| 7 | More importantly , a new item needs to be put at the top of the multimedia agenda . |
| 8 | If thought right a proposal must go to Divisions and be put at the Annual General Meeting . |
| 9 | Used to creating and presenting ideas to a wide variety of clients , she 'd grown proud of her capacity to keep her head under pressure , yet from the moment she 'd crossed the threshold of this impressive room she 'd been put at a distinct disadvantage . |
| 10 | Assessors are still trying to work out the full cost of the fire at the Spring Bank shopping centre , but initial estimates have been put at a quarter of a million pounds . |
| 11 | The context of speech-making and the techniques and conventions that have been developed ensure that many sides of a case are put at the same time as maintaining the proprieties due to different statuses . |
| 12 | In a fan experiment , other dishes are put at the same distance as the original dish , but in different directions . |
| 13 | I believe that the Housing Executive ensures that those who most need the grants are put at the top of the list . |
| 14 | Although they might have been relatively cheap to build they were expensive to maintain , a point that some experts were putting at the time . |
| 15 | Mozambique 's needs for external assistance in 1990 were put at a total of $1,400 million . |
| 16 | Therefore an adjective which has the effect of qualifying a property rather than an entity will not occur in ordinary predicative position ( nor in postnominal attributive position ) ; this prediction is confirmed by the unacceptability of sentences such as : ( 11 ) the sum of $300 she had to pay was total the lecturer who is to greet the Queen is mere a scoundrel complete must have taken my umbrella the cousins distant were put at a separate table If the adjectives in ( 12 ) are acceptable , reflexion shows at once that they are adjectives with more than one meaning , and the one which appears in predicative position is not that in which they are sense-qualifiers : ( 12 ) their village is distant and hard to reach burning his licence was wholly lawful the set complete is worth 1500 francs |
| 17 | Eventually she was appointed as the Mission 's Scottish Deputation Secretary where the full range of her gifts were put at the disposal of the churches . |
| 18 | We will not accept UK farmers being put at a disadvantage by EC laws being applied differently in other countries . |
| 19 | The five-speed manual gearbox is smoothness personified , and the urban thirst is put at a remarkable 34.9mph for a car of this size . |
| 20 | But even if the state is driven to an action , if at the same time the citizen is put at a serious disadvantage in the assertion of his legal , in this case of his constitutional , rights , by defence in the suit , justice may require that he should be at liberty to avoid those disadvantages by paying promptly and bringing suit on his side . |
| 21 | But even if the state is driven to an action , if at the same time the citizen is put at a serious disadvantage in the assertion of his legal , in this case of his constitutional , rights , by defence in the suit , justice may require that he should be at liberty to avoid those disadvantages by paying promptly and bringing suit on his side . |
| 22 | But even if the state is driven to an action , if at the same time the citizen is put at a serious disadvantage in the assertion of his legal , in this case of his constitutional rights , by defence in the suit , justice may require that he should be at liberty to avoid those disadvantages by paying promptly and bringing suit on his side . |
| 23 | But even if the state is driven to an action , if at the same time the citizen is put at a serious disadvantage in the assertion of his legal , in this case of his constitutional rights , by defence in the suit , justice may require that he should be at liberty to avoid those disadvantages by paying promptly and bringing suit on his side . |
| 24 | This ensures that no party to an offer is put at a disadvantage through delay in the release of new information to it . |
| 25 | This idea that protect children , not tell them about what 's happening , I mean if anybody can protect them to that extent when even Neighbours is put at a different time on the television , you know , erm that somehow we make them warm and secure by not telling them , to me that is making them dependent and unable maybe to cope later on in their lives . |
| 26 | The sexual woman thus is put at the bottom of a hierarchy of clerical over lay , male over female , celibate over sexual . |
| 27 | The human cost of communism is put at the staggering figure of 143 million dead . |
| 28 | Mr Nichol , however , said there was ‘ plenty to talk about ’ including the idea of a local flexibility deal , which was put at the conciliation service Acas two weeks ago . |
| 29 | An empty house just a mile or two outside St Margaret 's Hope village was put at the disposal of the Committee . |
| 30 | As far as the Herbert interest was concerned , therefore , Gloucester was put at the head of an existing connection which he was expected to do little to modify . |