Example sentences of "[verb] [vb mod] be put to " in BNC.

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1 Each of these chapters contained at least some description of how the concepts and techniques they described could be put to practical use to build up market knowledge .
2 so that even if we get a young person coming out of the workshops that may not be the best electrician going , we can find them something in a related area — an electrical warehouse , where their knowledge of the bits that they know will be put to good use and they 'll still be in that environment they want to work in .
3 The money raised will be put to good use .
4 Many of the herbs included in the list are of an ideal size , and any plants you do n't press can be put to excellent use in the kitchen .
5 Any continuing contributions received will be put to this reserve but active fund-raising for the Appeal has now ceased .
6 We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later .
7 Possessive adjectives , however , do not produce a satisfactory result : ( 60 ) our bicycles damaged all had red handlebars your ideas discussed will be put to our colonel One may enquire why there should be this contrast , since it seems easy enough to see what meaning should be attached to each of the sentences of ( 60 ) .
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