Example sentences of "[noun] placed [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . |
| 2 | ‘ the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . |
| 3 | This is clear from a passage in Dixon J. 's judgment where he is dealing with the second class of case : ‘ But , where the substantial or only ground for impeaching the instrument is misunderstanding or want of understanding of its contents or effect , the amount of reliance placed by the creditor upon the husband for the purpose of informing his wife of what she was about must be of great importance . ’ |
| 4 | Should the goods prove unfit for their purpose , the buyer will have a claim only if their unfitness relates to the sphere of reliance placed upon the seller . |
| 5 | The current value of outstanding contracts placed by the Ministry of Defence with the companies listed is as follows : British Aerospace , £1,625 million ; Royal Ordnance , £315 million ; VSEL , £1,070 million ; Ferranti , £360 million ; and Leyland Daf , £105 million . |
| 6 | The General Product Safety Directive ( 92/59/EEC ) is designed to ensure that products placed on the market in member states are safe for consumers to use . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They produce the octave above the natural note of the string and are indicated by the sign O placed above the note . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lateral Formed by an obstruction placed in the middle of the mouth , the air being free to escape at one or both sides , eg /I// Nasal Formed by completely closing the mouth at some point , the soft palate remaining lowered so that the air is free to pass out through the nose , eg /m/ . |
| 11 | Head up into the wind with most of the weight placed on the back foot and a low crouched position . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Water is pumped through gravel placed over the grid ( or plate ) . |
| 14 | Each team lines up behind tape placed on the floor . |
| 15 | This is partly due to higher rates and premises costs and to the London weighting in salaries , and partly because of the extra demands placed on the education service by inner-city characteristics , such as high unemployment , widespread poverty and a greater diversity of cultures and languages . |
| 16 | On various occasions the resources of the EC have proved to be inadequate to meet the growing demands placed upon the budget . |
| 17 | Each schema is like a web placed in the mind 's heavens where its images glitter like the stars . |
| 18 | The photograph on page 136 is the ultimate in portrayal of a fighting soldier placed in the context of a cricket match : unshaven , helmet and armguard in place , features contorted , limbs braced as the enemy fires at him . |
| 19 | Module headers are the key feature of LIFESPAN operation and the only direct requirement placed on the software it stores . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The emphasis that Calvinists placed upon the majesty of God led them to condemn as blasphemous any attempts to tinker with the supernatural , and thus their reaction to calamities was to accept them as part of God 's inscrutable purpose — the working out of a divine providence which governed all human affairs . |
| 22 | Are there displays of children 's work placed around the room and is the attention of governors drawn to them in a meaningful way ? |
| 23 | Why are many of the industrial areas placed to the north of the city ? |
| 24 | But he said the full programme has had to be reduced because of spending limitations placed on the council 's housing budget . |
| 25 | Some of the limitations placed on the cast stemmed directly from the immediate and mass popularity Doctor Who enjoyed almost from its first week on air . |
| 26 | By contrast , the majority of English Jacobites desired a conditional restoration of James II , with firm guarantees for the security of the Protestant religion and certain limitations placed on the power of the Crown . |
| 27 | 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 ] . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The sheer scale of Berlioz' Requiem defies description … the massive symphony orchestra , four brass bands placed around the auditorium . |
| 30 | 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 . |