Example sentences of "be placed [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notice that on a run the feet are placed across the board and the body faces the front |
| 2 | You can not only experiment with different feet positions and weighting but also with the angle at which the feet are placed across the board . |
| 3 | The arms are placed across the breast , with the hands directed towards the opposite shoulder , a pose not met with in funerary sculpture . |
| 4 | Its nostrils are placed at the ends of two extremities that grow out from the side of its head . |
| 5 | Our eyes are placed at the front of the head , a position shared by the eyes of cats , birds of prey and other hunters . |
| 6 | As tv onlookers we are placed at the centre of events no human being could ever witness in the flesh , by close-ups of a bomb's- eye view of the interior of a ventilator shaft right up to the moment of impact . |
| 7 | At Cirencester a panel containing a sixteen-petalled rosette has a comparable central device , however , the strongest comparisons are to be made with both of the Leicester mosaics , where eight-petalled rosettes similar to those in the Gloucester pavement are placed at the centre of a kaleidoscopic geometric design ( pI . |
| 8 | Northampton Town 's Supporters Trust , an independent body set up in January after a public meeting in the town , have unveiled plans to keep the debt-crippled Division Four club alive if they are placed into the hands of the official receiver on March 11 . |
| 9 | The skeleton , whose hands are placed over the groin in one of the traditional attitudes of repose , is slightly proud of the shell ; hence the gable lid , resulting in a close-fitting coffin . |
| 10 | There was imposed upon him , which he reaffirmed at his Bar Mitzvah at 12 years of age , a double mark : not only the circumcision by which all Jewish males are placed under the covenantal blessings and duties , but also the onus of priesthood . |
| 11 | The 79 works on display offer an insight into the national psychology ; its effects on artists and the techniques they employed to represent it are placed under the spotlight . |
| 12 | Both fireplace and bed are placed beyond the reach of draughts . |
| 13 | Here the clarinets are placed above the oboes and would thus give a clear brilliant ‘ tang ’ to the chord . |
| 14 | Since the Library 's collections are dispersed throughout three buildings , it is necessary to have a more or less continuous programme of transferring stock from one floor to another , and from one building to another , in order to create space for expansion and to ensure that the printed collections are placed to the maximum advantage as far as distribution , access and preservation are concerned . |
| 15 | Such items would only become liabilities when contracts are placed for the goods to be provided or the work to be carried out . |
| 16 | Bearing in mind the fact that my constituents want a reliable and quality service , will he take steps today to confirm that the orders that are placed for the new Networker rolling stock will be supplied in the near future , for the betterment of the north-west Kent commuter ? |
| 17 | All the living and bedrooms are placed on the south side , facilitating the effective area of plain wall on the north . |
| 18 | Laws have been passed to restrict the use of the ‘ rolling hook' ’ fishing method , in which groups of large unbaited hooks are placed on the river bed , with the intention of impaling large catfish . |
| 19 | Even when nominally on loan shelves , as in libraries in which loan and reference stocks are placed on the same shelves , these kinds of book are not borrowed but referred to . |
| 20 | The stakes are placed on the board , one for each honour and the game , two for ‘ Matrimony ’ ( King and Queen of trumps ) , two for ‘ Intrigue ’ ( Queen and Knave ) , and six for ‘ Pope Joan ’ ( the nine of diamonds ) . |
| 21 | Any dwellings not taken up within a specified time are placed on the open market . |
| 22 | The disadvantages are the limitations that are placed on the observer who can only gain a limited amount of information without intruding and thus altering the spontaneity of the behaviour . |
| 23 | This is made crystal clear in a somewhat laboured exposition in a book by Preece and Maier published in 1889 : Let us suppose the two microphonic transmitters are placed on the stage at T and T 1 , and these transmitters separately connected by two distinct wires to two telephone receivers , R and R 1 , which are applied to both ears to hear the actor , whom we will suppose to be placed at A. It is easy to understand that , the distance of this actor from transmitter T being less than that from transmitter T 1 , his song will be more distinctly reproduced by transmitter T than by T 1 , and the stronger impression will be produced on the left ear . |
| 24 | However , restrictions are placed on the power of management to combat a hostile takeover bid , for fear that they might act only in their own interests rather than for those of the company or its shareholders . |
| 25 | The two other chairs are placed on the other side of this table , still farther to the right , so that they do not block the view of the first two through the balustrade of the veranda . |
| 26 | 1984 ; Schmitt 1982b ) but the one most often used in Britain consists of two pads of wire mesh that are placed on the child 's bed with a sheet separating them and another sheet on top for the child to lie on . |
| 27 | Because Statementing is concerned with the allocation of resources rather than with the identification of needs strict limits are placed on the power of parents to affect the Statementing process . |
| 28 | When keys are returned care must be taken to see that they are placed on the correct key hook . |
| 29 | All flies possess these little structures but they are particularly noticeable in the crane flies , the daddy-long-legs , in which the knobs are placed on the ends of stalks so that they look like the heads of drumsticks . |
| 30 | If the surgeon believes that they would benefit from an operation , their names are placed on the waiting list and they are asked to come into hospital when a bed is available . |