Example sentences of "place [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their one hundred and fifty ton heavy life crane would have coped with that job easily enough but I hastily declined his offer which , apart from any other consideration would have placed me at a slight disadvantage . |
| 2 | So she had placed them on the mantel with the vase and the dragon plates , and Gerry had promised her two more , next time he docked in Cape Town . |
| 3 | These might be wild animals who possessed particular strengths and had little contact with man , like a lion , jackal , hawk and crocodile , or might be animals whose usefulness placed them in a special relationship with man , like the crow , ram and cat . |
| 4 | At first the health authorities will have to place their contracts where they have placed them in the past . |
| 5 | Shuffling all those bodies about to get it all nice and tidy , I think would not only be an enormous exercise , it would be a waste of time , because people do n't stay fixed in aspic once you 've placed them in the right place ; they change , they progress , they regress or whatever . |
| 6 | Discrimination against people on the grounds of ‘ non-normal ’ bodies or intellectual capacity places them outside the mainstream of social life . |
| 7 | First , cases of ‘ excessive defence ’ have a grounding in legal justification , in that the occasion was one which justified the use of some force , and this places them on a higher social plateau than killings with no element of justification at all . |
| 8 | In this connection McClellan has written that the librarian does not reject books , but places them on a ‘ scale of accessibility ’ . |
| 9 | So massive a change of emphasis must be of fundamental significance , not only to the anthropologist and the social historian , but to the child psychologists , psychiatrists and psychotherapists whose very existence as a group depends upon the climate of opinion which regards their professional skills as valuable and necessary , and which places them on an equal footing in social esteem with the more anciently respected callings of the paediatrician and the pedagogue . |
| 10 | The man takes my hands in his and places them within the box and around the point of life . |
| 11 | His description of these two conditions places them within the normal range of problems in profoundly deaf children : |
| 12 | There is general recognition that , although social workers and their agencies can not combat the structural causes of social problems , their knowledge of the effects of poverty and other disadvantages places them in a unique position to influence social policies ( Wharf , 1985 ; Townsend et al . , |
| 13 | HRM does not invalidate the procedures and skills of personnel management but , rather , places them in a different conceptual framework . |
| 14 | The reason is that the folding of the ears brings them forward and this places them in a posture that is not part of the usual ear-lowering signal . |
| 15 | It therefore places them in a paradoxical relationship and leaves the believer to live with the tension of relating to the world . |
| 16 | for those at the lowest levels , the quality of this transition places them in a severely restricted form of ‘ adulthood ’ . |
| 17 | In addition , even medium-sized plants can dominate the labour markets of small towns ( for example , in the cases of Westland at Yeovil and Clarks at Street ) , and this places them in a strong position in their dealings with the labour force ( Lever 1978 ) . |
| 18 | Yet , the intimate knowledge of the sick individual often places them in an ideal position to link illness with iatrogenesis , and the better doctors will see such insight as a welcome assistance rather than interference , and make full use of it . |
| 19 | To ‘ freeze-dry ’ his wigs , David simply applies gel to the wigs and places them in the freezer for 30 minutes ! |
| 20 | Place them on a sandy layer over seed compost in trays , adding more sand to cover all but the tips . |
| 21 | Always use the same set of scales and ideally place them on a piece of wood or chipboard for a more accurate reading . |
| 22 | Place them on a flat surface and look at the heel counter from behind . |
| 23 | This can be done thus : take portions of a mature leaf and place them on a container of moist loam or sand and loam . |
| 24 | The procedure is to remove some of the gut contents from ‘ affected fish and place them on a microscope slide . |
| 25 | Her husband Harold was a lamplighter and when he came home from work he was obliged to take off his boots in the passage and place them on a sheet of newspaper before entering the inner sanctum . |
| 26 | Make the invitations in the shape of a skull and crossbones and place them on the door instead of balloons . |
| 27 | If you just place them on the back seat of your car , or they are removed from an arrangement and not packed up in any special way , some of the petals will almost definitely become bruised , which will cause brown lines , patches and spots once the flowers have been pressed . |
| 28 | Then , with the right side of the garment facing the machine , pick up the stitches around the neck and place them on the machine . |
| 29 | They erm , what they do they drive these big Tugmasters now with these lorries so that they plant all these erm forty foot trailers with er with er erm with a container on and place them on the ship . |
| 30 | It would be possible to test a large sample of readers , who would read nine texts and place them on the network . |