Example sentences of "place [pron] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . , |
| 5 | It therefore places them in a paradoxical relationship and leaves the believer to live with the tension of relating to the world . |
| 6 | Place them on a flat surface and look at the heel counter from behind . |
| 7 | Place them on a sandy layer over seed compost in trays , adding more sand to cover all but the tips . |
| 8 | Bureaucracies are often credited with a monopoly of expertise which place them in a superior position to lay politicians . |
| 9 | Cut the mackerel fillets into cubes and place them in a large bowl . |
| 10 | Rinse the lentils in a sieve under running water , then place them in a large saucepan with all the remaining ingredients except the salt . |
| 11 | Like Pynchon , he has admitted an influence from Kerouac and the Beats , and , in his 1973 article ‘ The New Tradition ’ , Sukenick places himself within a late phase of the modernists ' ‘ Revolution of the Word ’ where verbal and structural experimentation were aimed at coping with the enigmatic nature of the world ( Federman 1975 : 42 ) . |
| 12 | He argues that freedom of choice makes a man responsible for his actions while the capacity to reason about those choices places him under a continuing obligation to take responsibility for those actions . |
| 13 | Other patients give a negative skin-prick test but respond positively to an intradermal test ( see p 288 ) , which is more ‘ sensitive ’ because it uses more antigen and places it in a deeper layer of the skin . |
| 14 | TRIPOS ' extensive experience and expertise in conformational searching , activity prediction , and 3D visualisation places it in a unique position to produce a single system that unites 3D searching , molecular design and analysis with proprietary activity and property prediction techniques into an effective information analysis environment . |
| 15 | Very carefully , lift your outline of Santa from the surface and place it on a floured baking tray . |
| 16 | ( vii ) Place it on a sterile surface , slit it longitudinally along the anti-mesometrial surface , and remove the fetuses from their membranes with the aid of a second pair of scissors and forceps . |
| 17 | Spread out the seaweed into the shape in which it is to be pressed while still in the water , then slowly lift it out of the basin , keeping it flat , let it drip for a while and then place it on a waterproof surface . |
| 18 | These choices inevitably narrow its vision and place it in a certain niche in the media market . |
| 19 | If the trouble has started and does not look like stopping , the best solution is to provide an immaculately clean tray of fresh litter , place it in a quiet corner , and then shut the animal up in that particular room , releasing it only when it has used the tray in the approved manner . |
| 20 | Or they place it in a busy part of the house , near the back door , where people are always walking past . |
| 21 | Take a cat and place it in a special room with a circle of passages and doors . |
| 22 | Mr Browning paced about and then said , ‘ You place us in a difficult position , Wilson , and one we can hardly approve . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He placed them in a neat pile , patting them into position with his large hands , frowning slightly . |
| 25 | But his drawings were remarkable for their acuteness of observation and their complete lack of sentimentality , qualities that placed them in a different league . |
| 26 | Mr. Novak placed them in a 35 gallon tank containing three large Echinodorus Sword plants and a great deal of driftwood . |
| 27 | On the contrary , his direct line to Hitler and Mussolini placed him in a better position than the monarchists to deal with Axis pressure . |
| 28 | However he was so dirty from his ride that the Master of Ceremonies placed him in a distant corner , far from the Emperor , and at the end of the queue for food . |
| 29 | Command of the Army of Africa placed him in a decisive position once the initial impetus of the rising in peninsular Spain was lost . |
| 30 | He placed her on a wooden table in an open space . |