Example sentences of "[noun] place at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If one is inclined , as one may well be , to doubt the validity of sets of distinctions of the kind I 've just made , they are at least based on a separation which Proust placed at the centre of his own critical theory . |
| 3 | The situation was slightly better than in the first half of the 1980s , when more power stations were cancelled than entered service , but those under construction all dated from orders placed at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 4 | Special displays placed at the end of a shelf unit or counter , where they catch the customer 's eye . |
| 5 | The first is , at best , a ‘ trade union consciousness ’ or a ‘ subordinate value system ’ , in which people placed at the bottom of the social system recognize they are exploited but seek only to improve their position within it . |
| 6 | Peat , clay or leaf-mould placed at the bottom with a layer of unwashed river sand or fine gravel should be provided . |
| 7 | Byrd 's 22 variations on ‘ Walsingham ’ present special difficulties including cross-rhythm , but Bull seems to have deliberately trumped them with his even more brilliant and difficult 30 variations on the same tune , which Tregian placed at the head of his anthology : a veritable thesaurus of keyboard devices . |
| 8 | ( Notice how , in both these waist exercises , the weight is also supported by the non-working arm with the hand placed at the top of the thigh . ) |
| 9 | They turned into a quieter street where open shutters gave a view of craftsmen bent over worktables placed at the front of their shops to catch the best of the morning light . |
| 10 | Before the end of the fifth century there was no specific alignment of the church to face the east with the altar placed at the east end . |
| 11 | Of the pin placing at the 466-yard ninth , where the 144-strong field were a collective 114 over par , Woosnam said : ‘ Whoever did it must have been born with a spanner in his head . ’ |