Example sentences of "place [pron] at [art] " 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 | Low temperatures place them at no obvious disadvantage — they have evolved physiological systems that allow them to move just as fast as temperate or tropical fish , and they are no easier to catch . |
| 3 | As Christian communicators in Asia we place ourselves at the service of those challenges , well aware that we need to conscientise people as much as we need to be conscientised . |
| 4 | I was particularly taken by Patricia Routledge , unmistakeable even looking through a letter box , and by Lionel Jeffries for his affecting rendition of : The troops are ready to mutiny , The colonel is missing or dead , When up steps a bold , young lieutenant And places himself at the head . |
| 5 | Once again , start with the largest flowers and place one at the top and one at the bottom of the design , and then two staggered in the middle . |
| 6 | The Chinese believe that to stand on one leg while kicking with the other unbalances the practitioner and places him at a disadvantage . |
| 7 | A university congregates together that type of personality and places it at the disposal of the succeeding generation . |
| 8 | A Hong Kong-based Scottish engineer and historian , Mr Charles Walker , is behind the scheme to inscribe a gravestone and place it at the spot where Liddell is known to have been buried . |
| 9 | Whenever she washed the windows in one room , she would mark the date down on the card , and place it at the end of the section . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Most Asian and Afro-Caribbean men and women were drawn into low-paid occupations which placed them at the lower rather than the upper limits of these widening inequalities . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'll go in front as the standard bearer , ’ said Nigel as he placed himself at the head of his patrol . |
| 14 | And when he had said this he placed himself at the feet of the Bishop , and there before all the people made a general confession of all his sins , and all the faults which he had committed against our Lord Jesus Christ . |
| 15 | Then , snatching a lance from one of them , he placed himself at the apex and , couching the lance , shouted to charge . |
| 16 | Acland placed himself at the head of the ‘ moral renaissance ’ , consolidating a personal following built around his best-selling books and endless public meetings into a loose organization called ‘ Forward March ’ . |
| 17 | In June 1263 , however , when Simon of Montfort [ q.v. ] resurrected the cause of the Provisions and advanced on the capital , Fitzthomas placed himself at the head of ‘ the people ’ who had taken to the streets in Montfort 's support . |
| 18 | His commitment to the reform of secondary education was unrelenting ; his position as Archbishop placed him at the heart of the religious problem ; his alliance with Butler — for whom he was ‘ all bulge and brain ’ — eventually tamed the opposition of the Churches . |
| 19 | She took his suitcase and placed it at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 20 | Each girl lit a candle and placed it at the altar , symbolic of the light of Christ which burns throughout the world . |
| 21 | Finally he stood and placed it at the head of the mound . |
| 22 | Serving and former guardsmen stood to attention as Princess Diana , dressed in black , took the wreath from two old soldiers and placed it at the foot of the memorial in Horseguards Parade . |
| 23 | Yet Mr Subirachs 's sculptures for the cathedral have placed him at the centre of a storm . |
| 24 | Black immigrants form part of this class structure , having jobs which tend to place them at the bottom . |
| 25 | In support of a recent complaint it had made to the EC Commission , Tretorn cites Article 85(1) ( d ) and Article 86(c) of the Treaty of Rome , which refers to ‘ dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties , thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage . |
| 26 | Maureen Stone 's arguments that multicultural education is based on a deprivation model of black children explain how multiracial education may actually be placing them at a disadvantage . |
| 27 | A non-exclusive list of examples of such abuses is provided : ( a ) directly or indirectly imposing unfair purchase or selling prices or other unfair trading conditions ; ( b ) limiting production , markets or technical development to the prejudice of consumers ; ( c ) applying dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties , thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage ; ( d ) making the conclusion of contracts subject to acceptance by the other parties of supplementary obligations which , by their nature or according to commercial usage , have no connection with the subject of such contracts . |
| 28 | In contrast , Andrea Lansley 's richly coloured , monumental compositions celebrate her body and focus on her physical and sensuary experiences , placing them at the centre of her work . |
| 29 | Referring to the third stage of negotiations between Israel and its neighbours , he warned that if the Arab negotiators continued to raise the question of the occupied territories " placing them at the centre of discussions … we shall know that their intentions are not directed towards peace " . |
| 30 | Procedures and functions do not need to be declared before they are used and there is no speed advantage to be gained by placing them at the start of the program . |