Example sentences of "[noun] placed in the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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/ .
2 Each schema is like a web placed in the mind 's heavens where its images glitter like the stars .
3 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 .
4 Fat drops of rain placed in the sand , almost one by one , like counters on a board game .
5 But the most enchanting thing in the room for Constance , apart from Miss Hatherby herself , was a large bamboo bird cage placed in the fireplace containing two brightly coloured and raucous cockatoos .
6 A lot of flood water had come down from the upper reaches of the Cherwell , and a body placed in the river , say , at Lonsdale Road …
7 Previous studies have recorded in normal volunteers and in patients with PSS the number of swallows at specific intervals that were needed to clear a given amount of acid placed in the oesophagus .
8 5 Tenders placed in the safe should be kept in the gorups that match the tender list with the deadline date on an A4 piece of paper on top .
9 Such cells were able to maintain their preference when the heads were inverted or other difficulties placed in the way of recognition , and one would much like to know about the computational principles and physiological mechanisms that performed the task .
10 Working backwards we may now say that the effect of an infinite conducting plane is equivalent to that of a charge of opposite sign placed in the mirror position ( the negative charge is the image of the positive charge in the plane ) .
11 Thus although items from the second half of the 20th Century did appear to suffer from less serious deterioration than those from its first half ( with no post-1950 material being considered ‘ Fragile ’ ) , of all defective 20th Century publications noted , 7% were ‘ Fragile ’ , whereas the comparable figure for 19th Century publications was only 2% , and even if the proportion of defective items placed in the category of least deterioration — ‘ Poor ’ — was smaller for 19th Century items than for those of the 20th Century ( 76% as opposed to 80% ) , the difference was extremely slight .
12 A smaller bitmap can be tiled , as this is , or you could have a small object placed in the corner or centred .
13 Such leads are usually obtained through responses from advertisements placed in the press .
14 And in a one-roomed flat or apartment a large bed placed in the middle of the room can be used as an island lounging unit .
15 Small e.p.s.ps were evoked by bipolar wire electrodes placed in the stratum radiatum , with the stimulus strength adjusted to give the smallest e.p.s.p. that seemed to be evoked reliably .
16 Virus particles placed in the beam of electrons cast shadows which could then be photographed enabling them to be seen .
17 Cardiac the patient blindfolded with a towel , his right hand placed in the mouth to stifle his own whimpers , the needle eased in to the dramatic furrow of the fifth rib space .
18 Lighting and water movement for these types of invertebrates are as important as the foods placed in the aquarium and this is often little understood .
19 He is also making an oak flower stand to hold the flowers placed in the chapel every week by the Guild , and a new case for the facsimile of St Margaret 's Gospel Book .
20 After as few as six trials , a rat placed in the water would swim almost directly to the platform .
21 The stamps for the Blue Peter Romanian Appeal were collected in a box placed in the entrance hall of the school by fourth-year student Lucy Robinson .
22 Dante would appear to have seen a striking clock at least fifteen years before the Visconti clock of 1335 was installed ; he may have seen the iron clock placed in the campanile of the church of Sant' Eustorgio in Milan in 1309 — the first Italian public clock of which we have knowledge .
23 She felt herself moving to the side with the others , as the lights were lowered , and a stool placed in the centre of the dance-floor .
24 This cannula was connected to another polyethlene cannula placed in the duodenum to permit the circulation of the pancreatic secretion into the duodenum .
25 The result shows that head neural crest is from the very beginning different from neural crest in other regions , and any other neural crest placed in the head leads to abnormal head development .
26 The spawning mop is then suspended on a cork or a strip of polystyrene placed in the centre .
27 Subsequently , such authors as the Brontë sisters , Jane Austen , Oliver Goldsmith , Jonathan Swift and others of great renown were the apparent signatories of letters placed in the care of Mr Singleton and sold by him by way of his bookshop or through the hands of trusted business friends who ran seemingly dowdy or seedy little second-hand enterprises in shops dark and dusty .
28 Three processor registers point to the bottom or base of the stack area ( the BOS register ) , the top of the stack area ( the LOS or limit of stack register ) , and the current position of the last element placed in the area ( the stack register S ) .
29 In the past all sorts of different kinds of buildings had a stone placed in the wall to show when they were built .
30 Once a report has been laid and a copy placed in the Library , it is available for any Member of Parliament to read .
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