Example sentences of "[noun sg] place on 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 Partly due to the ban placed on the authors ' disclosing anything about ‘ intelligence techniques ’ ( p. x ) , which has been rigidly enforced .
3 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 .
4 Head up into the wind with most of the weight placed on the back foot and a low crouched position .
5 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 .
6 Each team lines up behind tape placed on the floor .
7 Module headers are the key feature of LIFESPAN operation and the only direct requirement placed on the software it stores .
8 In a last effort to rally organised political support behind a demand for an inquiry , I had the Black issue placed on the agenda of a wellattended meeting of the Assembly members of the United Ulster Unionist Council .
9 ‘ One grain of corn placed on the first square on the board .
10 On March 3 the Palestinian delegation expanded on the self-government proposal placed on the table by them at the third round of talks held in Washington in January [ see p. 38740 ] .
11 What the James Committee placed on the agenda of public discussion — even though its own recommendations were in general not widely popular among teacher educators — was the reshaping of the education of teachers .
12 On June 9 a bomb placed on the roof of the headquarters of the Honourable Artillery Company in London injured 17 civilians , mainly students , who were attending a 21st birthday party there .
13 A further form of regulation is the operation of monetary policy , which may affect financial institutions , either through direct portfolio controls , as with the corset placed on the banks in the 1970s , or through interest rates which affect the environment in which financial institutions operate .
14 Such was the importance placed on the result by the players themselves that team manager Sue Mappin felt she was able to describe the win as a ‘ huge boost ’ .
15 The central position of language , the devaluing of the biographical element , the notion of a science of literature , and the importance placed on the deviation from the norm constitute some of the main recurrent features of literary theory from Jakobson to Barthes .
16 This four-year course is characterized by its practical nature with attention placed on the application of knowledge as well as on theoretical concepts .
17 We are heartened , however , by the emphasis the Court placed on the need for proper consultation with the Law Society before such significant decisions are taken .
18 This report is interesting for the stress placed on the subservience of the NKLP to the Kremlin :
19 But there was an important difference , not only in the primacy of stress placed on the doctrine of non-resistance , but also in the fact that the concept of resistance upon breach of contract nowhere entered the language of Tory limited non-resistance .
20 When is primary stress placed on the first word of the compound and when on the second ?
21 This involves the balance of emphasis placed on the mental health status of the patient versus the social risk they present ( to the health or safety of the patient or protection of others ) .
22 A very important feature of the folkeskole is the emphasis placed on the role of the class teacher , who is the major link between the school , pupils and parents .
23 The emphasis placed on the press by the Government and TANU was to continue long after independence .
24 This is certainly true , but it underlines what many consider has been the undue emphasis placed on the PSBR in the government 's policy making .
25 The work attempted in the classroom was often constrained by exclusive emphasis placed on the examination syllabus , on topics thought to be favoured by the examiners and on the acquisition of examination techniques .
26 Between industrialization and the end of World War II , we find emphasis placed on the way vertical loyalty to the nation took precedence over , and shaped , the absorption of individuals into local groups .
27 A key feature of his theory is the emphasis placed on the revolutionary character of scientific progress , where a revolution involves the abandonment of one theoretical structure and its replacement by another , incompatible one .
28 It is not as highly structured a programme as microteaching would demand but it applies some microteaching principles in the emphasis placed on the elements of classroom interaction .
29 Particular emphasis placed on the problems of regulating and supervising financial conglomerates within the existing national regulatory framework .
30 The progressive and insidious nature of the illness should be explained , unreasonable expectation of a miraculous cure dispelled , and emphasis placed on the need to change behaviour and attitudes about eating .
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