Example sentences of "[noun] place [pers pn] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was a brutal and cowardly attack on wretched creatures whose offences placed them at the bottom of the prison heap , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The title track delivers the most catchy moments and it was a good ploy by the group to place it at the end of the tape . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This is not only the case of small linguistic communities vulnerable to quite modest demographic changes , such as the thinly-populated hills and coasts of Welsh-speaking Wales , or Estonia , whose 1m or so Estonian speakers would in any case place it at the very lower limit of populations capable of maintaining a modern linguistic culture at all levels . |