Example sentences of "put it as [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plot is complicated even by Agatha Christie standards , but putting it as simply as possible , Mr Smith said a report had never been produced , Mr Major interrupted to say it was in the Commons library , the Labour MP Tam Dalyell said what was there was not a report at all and Tristan Garel-Jones , the Euro Minister , said it sort of was . |
| 2 | Putting it as politely as he can , Mr Tyson said the whole affair ‘ encouraged ’ him to return to paid employment . |
| 3 | Let's put it as simply as that . |
| 4 | ‘ Let me put it as delicately as I can . |
| 5 | However , what the hon. Gentleman says is a new one on me , if I may put it as basically as that . |
| 6 | After all , the stuff has to go somewhere : why not put it as far as possible from people , where it poses no threat to drinking water and little threat ( fisheries apart ) to food ? |