Example sentences of "be placed [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its laws are made piecemeal by Parliament and by judges , who are placed under no overriding constitutional obligation to preserve or protect the media 's right to report matters of public interest . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | Many thousands of stories , large and small , and even feature material are placed with no more than a press release in mail or some short telephone contact , and even PRO 's who work regularly with their own trade publications may , because of the distance between their offices and those of the publication , never have met the editors . |
| 6 | ROADS : Almost every week traffic restrictions are placed on a new section of the motorway network , reducing the number of lanes open to traffic from three , to two , or even one . |
| 7 | Water drops are placed on a thin piece of polished silicone pointing slightly uphill and coated with a water repellent of increasingly lessening effect as the coating goes uphill . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When keys are returned care must be taken to see that they are placed on the correct key hook . |
| 10 | In a strict order of preferential treatment , the newest titles are placed on the top rack , and moved down weekly , until the volumes on the bottom rack are superseded and returned to the publisher for pulping . |
| 11 | Any dwellings not taken up within a specified time are placed on the open market . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I do n't object to ladies being printers , provided they are placed on the same equality as men . |
| 14 | Often the squares are placed in a central position and enclose a figured medallion . |
| 15 | But you are placed in a great difficulty . |
| 16 | Beakers containing the fluids are placed in a ventilated oven and dried at 100°C for at least 24 hr , cooled in a desiccator , and weighed to 0·001 g |
| 17 | The technology is based on the observation that , when particles are placed in a rotating electric field , they too rotate in a characteristic way . |
| 18 | To explain the difference between the two structures , they are placed in a realistic context . |
| 19 | If , however , they show no sign of ability to make contact or to learn by five years they are placed in a special school , welfare institution or returned to family surroundings . |
| 20 | It is essential , however , that all donations are placed in a special envelope or paid by cheque or by Standing Order . |
| 21 | Starfish , flatworms and other early animals use a slightly refined system in which the eye-spots are placed in a cup-like depression . |
| 22 | The almost exclusive concentration on the formal political process has been replaced by accounts that take in crucial determinants outside this sphere , and which are placed in an explanatory framework that allows links to be made with wider sets of social relations . |
| 23 | The effect of such a rule is that the lineage of the bride and the lineage of the husband are placed in an asymmetrical wife-giver/wife-receiver relationship ; the wife-givers then receive " valuables " of some sort in return for the women that they give away . |
| 24 | Selection for senior posts is therefore more important than training ; if people who display the appropriate qualities are placed in the correct context then they will flourish . |
| 25 | Parents strive to ensure that their children are placed in the best possible schools , follow with avid interest their educational attainments , often placing the children under great pressure if they are relatively unsuccessful . |
| 26 | c It is suggested that Adverts are placed in the following papers , depending on the areas involved in the Consultation Exercise : Scotsman ( Friday ) Evening News ( Friday ) Dalkeith Advertiser ( published weekly , Thursday ) East Lothian Courier ( published weekly , Friday ) Lothian Courier ( published weekly , Thursday ) |
| 27 | The result is , as we have seen , a tendency towards a teacher-dominated style of interaction , in which children are placed in the passive role of respondents , obliged to accept the teacher 's definition of what is considered relevant . |
| 28 | It 's the cause of the divisive broad band streaming which I think some comprehensives have been persuaded to use , and I 'm forced to say how can a child really value himself or herself if they are placed in the bottom band of such a school throughout the time when they are at that comprehensive ? |
| 29 | The new industry of salmon-farming has filled the gap as far as the scavenging gulls are concerned : the rearing cages are placed in the sheltered bays and ‘ sounds ’ between the islands and are fed on high-protein , manufactured food in pellet form , which are ferried out in sacks by small boats . |
| 30 | The arrangement of things into classes , such as the class metal , or the class man , is grounded indeed on a resemblance among the things which are placed in the same class , but not on a mere general resemblance ; the resemblance it is grounded on consists in the possession by all those things of certain common peculiarities ; and those peculiarities it is which the terms connote , and which the propositions consequently assert ; not the resemblance . |