Example sentences of "[was/were] put at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they might have been relatively cheap to build they were expensive to maintain , a point that some experts were putting at the time . |
| 2 | Mozambique 's needs for external assistance in 1990 were put at a total of $1,400 million . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | An empty house just a mile or two outside St Margaret 's Hope village was put at the disposal of the Committee . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We would have liked to rebuild it but then we had to find places for the people to go and being a narrow valley it , most of the housing was put at the end of the town . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | No new offer was put at the meeting between management and the 25-strong shop stewards ' committee , called by Yarrow 's managing director and chief executive , Murray Easton , who wanted to put his case to the full committee . |
| 11 | Total government spending was put at an estimated SR753,000 million , of which SR498,000 million would be civil expenditure . |