Example sentences of "[noun] placed [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many respects the purchasing and contracting arrangements have strengthened the power of the locality to decide , mainly because of the reliance placed on the technical judgements of the caring professions . |
| 2 | But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . |
| 3 | ‘ the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . |
| 4 | This is clear from a passage in Dixon J. 's judgment where he is dealing with the second class of case : ‘ But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . ’ |
| 5 | Should the goods prove unfit for their purpose , the buyer will have a claim only if their unfitness relates to the sphere of reliance placed upon the seller . |
| 6 | Partly due to the ban placed on the authors ' disclosing anything about ‘ intelligence techniques ’ ( p. x ) , which has been rigidly enforced . |
| 7 | The current value of outstanding contracts placed by the Ministry of Defence with the companies listed is as follows : British Aerospace , £1,625 million ; Royal Ordnance , £315 million ; VSEL , £1,070 million ; Ferranti , £360 million ; and Leyland Daf , £105 million . |
| 8 | In the short term it might be expected to gain considerably from the actual construction of the tunnel and figures for the period up to March 1989 show that the South East , including Kent , had gained 27% of the £492m worth of contracts placed in the UK by Transmanche Link : Kent , as a single county , attracted a high share of 9% . |
| 9 | If six garages are now placed over the five cars on the top shelf ( leaving one garage empty ) , and four garages placed over the four cars on the bottom shelf ( all garages being full ) , then about one in three four-year-olds now maintain that the bottom shelf has more cars . |
| 10 | He showed some nepotistic , or rather patrimonial skill in getting his sons placed in the public service ; his failure to have amassed even a modest competence of wealth may be taken to argue either extreme probity or reckless extravagance , but more likely arose from having over-extended his credit in trying to send supplies to Ireland back in 1642 . |
| 11 | The General Product Safety Directive ( 92/59/EEC ) is designed to ensure that products placed on the market in member states are safe for consumers to use . |
| 12 | With the skeg placed at the very back , there is also less chance of spin out . |
| 13 | Contracts were shortened and meat prices restrained ; the meat plant was nationalized and the export distribution channel lost ; the issue of land tenure for pastoralists became submerged in the much bigger ujamaa re-settlement programme of 1975 ; and livestock buying at markets was taken out of the hands of the traditional Somali buyers and for the most part placed in the hands of state agents . |
| 14 | A simple grab rail placed in the correct place can make a considerable difference to how you cope , especially with the bath or toilet . |
| 15 | Lights from gaslamps which were positioned round the walls of the theatre were dimmed — lamps placed at the edge of the stage were turned up full and Albert DeNero was drenched with light . |
| 16 | Most nations ' note issues are now entirely fiduciary , i.e. based on faith placed in the issuing authority . |
| 17 | They produce the octave above the natural note of the string and are indicated by the sign O placed above the note . |
| 18 | If the aspect ratio is very low , so that the stacks are wide and thin , the stress may again be quasi-uniform but the constraint placed by the stiff layers on the less-stiff increases the overall longitudinal modulus very greatly , particularly if the less-stiff material has the Poisson ratio of a rubber . |
| 19 | For Adam Smith in 1776 , laying down the philosophical system which was to become the ideological underpinning of the market economy , they were the greatest obstruction placed on the movement of labour for they affected even common labour , while the regulations of guilds and corporations restricted the movement only of artisans . |
| 20 | Lateral Formed by an obstruction placed in the middle of the mouth , the air being free to escape at one or both sides , eg /I// Nasal Formed by completely closing the mouth at some point , the soft palate remaining lowered so that the air is free to pass out through the nose , eg /m/ . |
| 21 | Head up into the wind with most of the weight placed on the back foot and a low crouched position . |
| 22 | Otherwise , the position of the feet along with the amount of weight placed through the booms onto the mastfoot determine the angle of heel . |
| 23 | All unary operations ( such as negate ) are performed on the top element of the stack , and binary operations are performed on the top two elements of the stack ( after which they are removed ) and the result placed on the top of the stack . |
| 24 | Water is pumped through gravel placed over the grid ( or plate ) . |
| 25 | The first person in each team is given a balloon and has to blow it down the room over tape placed at the other end without touching it . |
| 26 | Each team lines up behind tape placed on the floor . |
| 27 | This is partly due to higher rates and premises costs and to the London weighting in salaries , and partly because of the extra demands placed on the education service by inner-city characteristics , such as high unemployment , widespread poverty and a greater diversity of cultures and languages . |
| 28 | On various occasions the resources of the EC have proved to be inadequate to meet the growing demands placed upon the budget . |
| 29 | Each schema is like a web placed in the mind 's heavens where its images glitter like the stars . |
| 30 | The photograph on page 136 is the ultimate in portrayal of a fighting soldier placed in the context of a cricket match : unshaven , helmet and armguard in place , features contorted , limbs braced as the enemy fires at him . |