Example sentences of "place by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She remembered the first time she 'd seen him , striding tall and long-legged into the reception area of the TV station , instantly dominating the place by sheer presence alone . |
| 2 | When desires disrupt co-operation their spontaneity is evident , when they support it nothing proves that they were not instilled in the first place by moral training . |
| 3 | Each tier was held in place by tiny press studs which sprang apart at the least pressure . |
| 4 | Their learning takes place by visual experiences , and this is how we should try to communicate with them . ’ |
| 5 | It 's held snugly in place by elasticated tapes . |
| 6 | From birth to nine months the best method is an approved rear-facing carrier held in place by rear seat belts . |
| 7 | Finally , her face , wrinkled around the eyes and mouth , but the skin held firmly in place by good bone formation . |
| 8 | In fact a good part of the success of ‘ Made in Italy ’ — shoes , clothes , and knitwear — depends on women working at home without benefits and welded into their place by marital , familial and community ties . |
| 9 | There were plenty of examples of schemes and estates in the area ‘ put into place by caring councils ’ , he said also calling for the freeing of sale money . |
| 10 | The second round , to take place by late July , would decide the issue in those constituencies where the first round failed to give any candidate at least 50 per cent of the vote . |
| 11 | We then concentrated our efforts on the tail-rudder and elevators were in place by late Summer 1991 . |
| 12 | Very often the fossil bones may be broken in place by slight earth movements but with the pieces of bone still lined up with each other , only to fall apart during later transport or during excavation . |
| 13 | ‘ A key feature of this process is that the assessment will be carried out in the work place by competent trainers/assessors nominated by the managers . ’ |
| 14 | In a statement issued with Andre Benard , his French counterpart , Mr Morton said he believed agreement could be reached in time to put a fresh financial package in place by early next year . |
| 15 | The concrete block shell was in place by early 1992 ready for the 25-week facing brickwork stage to begin . |
| 16 | It goes without saying — so we 'll say it — that STDs are best avoided in the first place by routine sexual hygiene and precautions . |
| 17 | It was on the cutting edge of modern style , and was set quite severely in place by generous dollops of mousse and squirts of spray . |
| 18 | Below : A decorative curtain is edged with deep fringing and held in place by tasselled cord |
| 19 | For Suicide for Love — a synthesis by Matsuyo Akimoto of works by the seventeenth-century dramatist Monzaemon Chikamatsu — depicts a world in which individual impulses are kept in place by fierce restraints . |
| 20 | Carpet of the same pattern as that in the hall was laid over only the middle part of the stairway and was held in place by little metal arms which pinned the carpet against the back of each tread . |
| 21 | These are held in place by wooden boards , supported by pegs . |
| 22 | In the dust of the great Ein Helweh Palestinian camp just east of Sidon , cheap copies of Roberts ' prints — of Nablus , of Hebron , of Jericho and Jerusalem — are hung on the cement walls of refugee shacks , behind uncleaned glass , sometimes held in place by Scotch tape and glue . |
| 23 | A wall-hung basin , which is held in place by secure wall brackets , can be fixed at exactly the height you want , although the supply and waste pipes will be exposed . |
| 24 | Attempts to attract candidates without this bias are very difficult to make successfully , especially as much of the self-selection process will have taken place by social conditioning in homes , schools and colleges , long before the Civil Service Commission enters into the reckoning . |
| 25 | The only really bad cosmetic point on the whole guitar is that the switch is held in place by big , cheapo dome-headed screws , instead of the small , black , countersunk ones they should have been . |
| 26 | The upward sweep of the rolls at Bella 's forehead were held in place by large combs pushed into the hair above the ears . |