Example sentences of "been place on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Emphasis has been placed on increasing income inequalities as a means of boosting incentives for more work effort on an individual and corporate level .
2 Whilst in the past some reliance has been placed on low melting point plastics and the thermal shock effects on asbestos cement sheeting to provide a degree of ventilation , consequential to a fire , experience indicates that such faith can be misplaced .
3 In recent years , a great deal of emphasis has been placed on technological progress as a cause of structural unemployment .
4 It is little wonder , therefore , that during those parts of the year which were spent at Saint Cloud , Compiègne or Fontainebleau the emphasis should have been placed on greater informality .
5 But how far have the changes in child care law embodied in the Children Act 1989 , with its focus on the paramountcy of the child 's welfare ( as a means to the child 's better protection ) , and the increasing emphasis which has been placed on parental responsibility rather than rights by the courts in recent years , been mirrored by changes in the balance of power between parent , child and state in education ?
6 In this way the study diverges from the usual tradition of elite studies where emphasis has been placed on ideological response or constituency service as the key to understanding the adoption of attitudes in such an elite .
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