Example sentences of "placed [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Otherwise , the position of the feet along with the amount of weight placed through the booms onto the mastfoot determine the angle of heel .
2 Drains are usually secured by a suture , and a sterile safety pin may be placed through the drain to prevent it retreating into the wound .
3 A wooden rod was placed through the centre hole of a whorl or disc made of wood or stone .
4 The chairman , James Millar , said that while Invergordon could not be immune to the volume and margin pressures currently being experienced by the Scotch whisky industry , the group was well placed through the mix of its business to ride out the present difficulties .
5 Research studies , however , including ( … ) those of Wolkind and Kozaruk ( 1983 ) on children placed through the Adoption Resource Exchange , and Reich and Lewis ( 1986 ) , and Maca-skill ( 1985a ) concerning the agency Parents for Children , indicate that children who have been placed against their parents ' wishes seem to be settling quite well , but there are insufficient numbers , followed up for insufficiently long , for us to know what the impact of adoption of older children without consent is going to be in the long term .
6 All advertisements should be placed through the ARC Advertising /RADA public relations company :
7 The planting aspect takes the form of avenues of trees of which approximately 560 will be planted , and over 57,000 shrubs will be placed through the grounds .
8 In August 1989 Scottish police visited Malta to investigate the Talb connection , and in October investigators confirmed that they were examining the possibility that the bomb had been placed aboard an Air Malta flight before being transferred to Pan Am 's Frankfurt-London-New York flight PA 103 .
9 Northampton is perfectly placed as a touring centre with a wide range of accommodation to choose from , ranging from luxury fourstar to comfortable family-run hotels and guest houses .
10 Thirty years later , I can still recall particular images — Alan Breck 's silver button set on a wooden cross and placed as a sign in the window of a but and ben ; redcoats prodding the heather with their bayonets while Breck and David Balfour sweltered out the day on the top of a huge granite boulder ; Breck lowering his belt so that Balfour could scramble up ; a chieftain 's hide-out somehow built using the trees .
11 He expended large sums in the construction of this city , and in the foundations he ordered several decapitated criminals to be placed as a sign of sacrifice . ’
12 After removal of the supernatant , the pellet was dispersed into a slurry , drawn into a fine glass pipette and placed as a standing drop on the surface of a nucleopore filter in organ culture .
13 It has a long history of urban culture as a market centre for a pastoral and agricultural hinterland , as a garrison town and a centre of services and administration , and it is equally placed as the gateway to the Mittelland .
14 Haffen et al showed morphogenesis by neonatal intestinal cells and embryonic mesenchyme , when placed as an interspecies recombinant graft into an embryonic environment .
15 It meant the horse that was placed between the shaf of a cart , as opposed to the trace-horse which pulled in front of the thiller .
16 Using a zig-zagging technique with your garden path will create a felling of greater space and , if it is placed between the plantings , will enhance the ‘ separate room ’ effect .
17 A split infinitive occurs when a word ( usually an adverb ) is placed between the word ‘ to ’ and a following verb , as in ‘ to really understand . ’
18 This is normally placed between the ceiling joists , but it is essential that the space under the water tank(s) is left uninsulated to allow heat to permeate through the ceiling , and that any water pipes and tanks in the roof space are themselves well insulated .
19 It 's simply placed between the mattress and the baby 's upper body and normal , low and high temperatures are shown in different colours .
20 Elsewhere in the sale four ‘ vortographs ’ — formal studies of fractured light produced by an assemblage of mirrors placed between the subject and the lens — by Alvin Langdon Coburn made £268,400 in total , nearly four times their estimate .
21 Whatever panelling you use , and the latter is going to be more expensive , a layer of insulating material should be placed between the panels and the solid wall .
22 Her hands are clasped in the traditional manner , at centre chest with right hand over left , the index finger of the left hand placed between the index finger and thumb of the right , and clasping a bunch of small summer flowers .
23 In devising titles , avoid over-florid forms , however , as well as epigraphs ( i.e. quotations placed between the title and the main body of text ) , since these can make the essay appear to aspire to a grandeur or scale that it can not in the circumstances fulfil .
24 Placed between the lake and the sea , Mar Estang is perfect for water lovers .
25 A side hole for balloon pressure measurements was placed between the detection electrodes .
26 In some applications a gear is placed between the motor and load with the aim of adjusting the loading on the motor .
27 Many problems remain ; for example , it is not yet known how to compute a path that will avoid an obstacle placed between the arm and the end-point of movement .
28 Each one constitutes a separate ethnic unit , has a self-sufficient economy , a flag , a Supreme Soviet , a council of ministers and , most important , is placed between the area we call Russia and the world outside .
29 The initial pattern of four patches , symmetrically placed about the equator near 65°N , S ; 120°E , W , is seen in the present geomagnetic field and is stable on the historical timescale ; it has been proposed as a reflection of the underlying convective pattern .
30 Haussmann indicated that the West German economy was well placed for a continuation of these favourable trends and , more broadly , for the challenges presented by the political and economic transformation in East Germany and for completion of the EC internal market by the end of 1992 .
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