Example sentences of "would be placed [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The Jordanian Central Bank governor , Mohammad Said Nabulsi , announced on June 13 , 1989 , that they would be placed into liquidation in an attempt to cut heavy currency speculation .
2 Greater emphasis would be placed on payment for pre-trial work .
3 The ministers agreed four key points : ( i ) minimal restrictions would be placed on surveillance flights ; ( ii ) a quota system would be devised to ensure equitable surveillance of all signatory states ; ( iii ) unarmed aircraft would be used , carrying surveillance equipment capable of operating under all circumstances and weather ; and ( iv ) other countries , in particular the European neutral and non-aligned countries , would eventually be invited to participate in the project .
4 Some military aircraft would be placed at UK and French disposal .
5 The latest version of the SDI concept , originally introduced in 1983 , centred on the " brilliant pebbles " idea , which proposed that up to 100,000 small space-based rockets would be placed in orbit , where they would be able to track enemy missiles and to destroy them through direct collision .
6 The red-hot steel tyre would be placed in position around the wheel ; if the tyre was of less width than the rim , temporary nails were partly driven into the wood to stop the tyre slipping down to the steel plate .
7 The criminal trial system would be placed in jeopardy .
8 If it were to do so , the very existence of the currency union would be placed in jeopardy .
9 ‘ Had he as many kind and good relations as I have , ’ Hooker wrote , ‘ who would be grieved and pained to hear me say what I think , and had he children who would be placed in predicaments most detrimental to children 's minds … he would not wonder so much . ’
10 The solution for male doctors who do rough pelvic exams on women might begin in medical schools , where each male student would be placed in stirrups and a strange female MD would come and ‘ squeeze his balls and leave without saying a word ’ .
11 People usually recorded these performances ; indeed sometimes two or three glittering stereophonic radio-cassette recorders would be placed within microphone distance .
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