Example sentences of "place them at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some people stress the need to protect innocent children from the misuse of adult power ; others see the way forward as one of liberating and empowering children , even if this places them at risk . |
| 2 | Then take two cuts of the cards off the bottom of the pack and place them at each end before placing the rest in the middle . |
| 3 | However , one major weakness of the study is that by concentrating on advertising as the major culprit , it overlooks the structural changes which media necessarily go through — or do not go through — which themselves place them at risk . |
| 4 | Low temperatures place them at no obvious disadvantage — they have evolved physiological systems that allow them to move just as fast as temperate or tropical fish , and they are no easier to catch . |
| 5 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Most Asian and Afro-Caribbean men and women were drawn into low-paid occupations which placed them at the lower rather than the upper limits of these widening inequalities . |
| 7 | None the less , it was felt , firstly by societies themselves of course but eventually by government , that the existing rules , based on ideas which dated remember from the eighteenth century , placed them at a serious disadvantage . |
| 8 | Although he talked about how ‘ we , as communists , essentially intend to work in harmony with nature ’ , he made it clear that this meant ‘ understanding and controlling the laws of nature … to place them at man 's service ’ . |
| 9 | Black immigrants form part of this class structure , having jobs which tend to place them at the bottom . |
| 10 | In support of a recent complaint it had made to the EC Commission , Tretorn cites Article 85(1) ( d ) and Article 86(c) of the Treaty of Rome , which refers to ‘ dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties , thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage . |
| 11 | Most football grounds now divide their rival fans by placing them at opposite ends of the ground and by preventing access between the ends . |
| 12 | In contrast , Andrea Lansley 's richly coloured , monumental compositions celebrate her body and focus on her physical and sensuary experiences , placing them at the centre of her work . |
| 13 | Maureen Stone 's arguments that multicultural education is based on a deprivation model of black children explain how multiracial education may actually be placing them at a disadvantage . |
| 14 | Referring to the third stage of negotiations between Israel and its neighbours , he warned that if the Arab negotiators continued to raise the question of the occupied territories " placing them at the centre of discussions … we shall know that their intentions are not directed towards peace " . |
| 15 | A non-exclusive list of examples of such abuses is provided : ( a ) directly or indirectly imposing unfair purchase or selling prices or other unfair trading conditions ; ( b ) limiting production , markets or technical development to the prejudice of consumers ; ( c ) applying dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties , thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage ; ( d ) making the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which , by their nature or according to commercial usage , have no connection with the subject of such contracts . |
| 16 | Procedures and functions do not need to be declared before they are used and there is no speed advantage to be gained by placing them at the start of the program . |
| 17 | Mrs Castle , as it turned out , had opposed this allowance , again on the characteristically doctrinaire grounds that an allowance which made it necessary for the disabled to purchase motor cars would place them at the mercy of the commercial interests of motor manufacturers . |