Example sentences of "[noun sg] was place [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emphasis on analogies and external characters led to the splitting up of the marsupials , so that the thylacine was placed among the dogs despite its extraordinary reproductive system . |
| 2 | No timescale was placed on the proposals to limit US military influence and the USA called on the JSP to clarify its position . |
| 3 | As pointed out in an earlier chapter , security was placed in the hands of the army as part of the innovations of the Whitelaw administration . |
| 4 | His education was placed in the hands of a series of military tutors , and before the pathetic little boy was seven he had been appointed the youngest corporal in the Prussian Army and made to congratulate his father on his thirtieth birthday in full uniform . |
| 5 | Particular emphasis was placed on the links with other service providers in the area . |
| 6 | The skull was placed among the bones of Arak , and through the heat and the smoke Tallis watched the watching eyes , three cold people from an ancient day , remembering and honouring the dead . |
| 7 | If the burden was placed on the parents to prove they did not do the deed , their failure to convince the jury of this would result in their conviction . |
| 8 | A greater burden was placed on the rates which could only be met either by cuts in services or increases in rate demands . |
| 9 | Apart from the firm belief that if workers and senior management were to pair and so produce a perfect working environment– all hope was placed in the children of the workers we spoke with . |
| 10 | Reliance was placed upon the words of the Earl of Selbourne L.C. in Seward v. Vera Cruz ( Owners ) ( 1884 ) 10 App.Cas. 59 , 68 : |
| 11 | There is no record of where the papingo was placed for the contests held during the first century of the Kilwinning Society of Archers . |
| 12 | On the Copernican model , the earth was placed among the planets . |