Example sentences of "place it [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hirtle 1975 : 37 for examples with realize , agree and understand ) , its meaning places it in the unique position of becoming the equivalent of a verb of perception when it is used in the operative sense . |
| 2 | Then take a second card from the middle pile and place it on the other outside pile . |
| 3 | If properly encouraged , they could carry the small amount of pollen necessary for fertilisation and place it on the exact spot in the female flower where it was required . |
| 4 | Date it and place it in the safe keeping of a bank manager or a solicitor ( although these professionals often do n't like doing this , as it is a lot of trouble ) . |
| 5 | Jack had to fill the coal scuttles , Kevin to bring in the logs , Aengus had to roll yesterday 's papers into sausage-like shapes which would be used for lighting the fires later , Gerry , who was meant to be the animal lover , had to take Oswald for a run in the park , and see that there was something on the bird table in the garden , and Ronan had to open the big heavy curtains in the front rooms , take the milk in from the steps and place it in the big fridge and brush whatever had to be brushed from the big granite steps leading up to the house . |
| 6 | The pimp took the strip and placed it over the other girl 's mouth . |
| 7 | Then I remembered that , in the car was the last red rose from Bayeux — I placed it on the rough ground outside the house , and prayed for the family whose happy , safe home it had once been . |
| 8 | He removed his straw hat and placed it on the empty chair beside him . |
| 9 | She took some bread from the pantry cupboard and placed it on the wooden table . |
| 10 | For the former the sterling area was good for business ; for the latter , an international financial role for Britain involved direct responsibilities which placed it in the central position in government to which it had become accustomed before 1939 but had lost over the war years . |
| 11 | So I used a large plastic storage box , and filled it with rooted but loose watercress and placed it in the main pool fed by the return flow from a gravity-fed filter . |
| 12 | I 'd actually go a bit further and say yes we 'd like to do this , can we also look after road maintenance as well , because the road maintenance is sent out to contractors , contractors are so busy , they ca n't actually do half this work , they 've got a list as long as your arm , so pit pitfalls in in the pavements as well as as some of the motorways are n't being done because the contract 's been placed , but they 've placed it with the wrong people . |
| 13 | We could equally well have placed it in the other hole ( state B ) and it would similarly remain there . |
| 14 | Georgina Naylor of the National Heritage Memorial Fund explained that securing the house under the charity was a cheaper solution than placing it with the National Trust and also allowed a greater individuality . |
| 15 | Instead of hanging the whole of the weight , hang only the left hand hook of the weight , placing it on the right hand stitch about two rows from the top of the knitting . |
| 16 | It follows that we see no case for placing it on the semi-statutory footing proposed by the select committee . |
| 17 | However , complete accuracy is not important , as a few years either way make little difference to its value or collectability ; placing it in the right quarter of the appropriate century will nearly always suffice . |
| 18 | It is always wise to examine a flower very carefully before placing it in the blotting paper as if it contains any tiny insects they will think they are being provided with a picnic lunch and eat their way through the contents of your press ! |
| 19 | " Load character " extracts the character referred to by the descriptor , placing it in the least-significant end of the accumulator ( clearing the rest of the accumulator ) ; " Deposit character " stores the character from the least-significant end of the accumulator at the position referred to by the descriptor ( leaving the rest of the string unaffected ) . |
| 20 | ‘ Inserting the device inside the brain , actually placing it in the lateral ventricle ensures that the chemical is evenly spread around the brain . ’ |
| 21 | Indeed , if it is possible to talk of a Keynesian revolution in economic policy , then there is a strong case for placing it in the early 1950s rather than around 1947 . |
| 22 | Its research reputation is also strongly reflected in its success in attracting substantial external support , placing it in the top handful of British research universities . |
| 23 | We are merely suggesting that if the right hon. Member for Chingford has information he must place it before the appropriate authorities . |