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

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1 A neatly printed card , discreetly placed at the hem of the embroidery , told that the contents of the case had been donated by Jurgen Danziger , in 1933 .
2 He was eventually placed in the custody of the Earl Marshal , the Earl of March , while Lyons was sentenced to imprisonment and all his goods were forfeited .
3 With most designs of planting baskets , a hessian or foam liner is required to retain the compost when it is eventually placed in the pond .
4 Creatures were not necessarily placed on the earth in the form in which they appeared now .
5 The futuristic vision of hypnotic living and machine sex was imported from Europe : from Germany came Kraftwerk with ‘ Autobahn ’ and ‘ Trans-Europe Express ’ ; from France came Jean-Marc Cerrone with ‘ Supernature ’ and from the South Tyrol , crucially placed in the centre of Germany , Italian , Swiss and German culture , came Giorgio Moroder with Donna Summer 's ‘ Love To Love You Baby ’ and ‘ I Feel Love ’ .
6 Now that 's what I 'd prefer , but in every , you know the majority go against me and they want it in a as I say I I would , I think that it 'd be better placed at the top .
7 It is inconceivable that we could advise our clients in the manner in which Council has advised this institute , A ‘ brown-field ’ site out of London , in say Leeds or Sheffield or York , could attract development grants , rates deferrals and provide jobs and would be better placed for the majority of the membership .
8 But New Zealand farmers could not be better placed for the day when ( if ) other rich countries lower barriers to food imports and abolish farm subsidies .
9 A few of the ulema , highly placed in the government , encouraged him in his attacks on the gazi emirates , ulema " whose ideas and sentiments had remained attached to the ancient centres of Islam from which they had come as poor adventurers and to which they intended to return as wealthy ministers of the new master " .
10 As they are merely placed into the water , there is no need for a complex plumbing arrangement or a separate chamber as with surface pumps .
11 Installation of a submersible pump is quite simple , for , as described earlier , it is merely placed in the water .
12 Around 370 million years old , it was once a tropical sea-bed yet it was only placed on the tourist map nine years ago when a TV crew flew over it by chance .
13 True , DF 118 's predilection for improvisation results in one yawn-inducing instrumental howler entitled ‘ Preacher Dub ’ ( foolishly placed at the start of the set ) , and they 're daft enough to return to clichéd ranting on '60 Seconds ’ ; but by the time proceedings close with ‘ Chainsaw ’ , they 're looking like people who could take on more established named and win hands down .
14 The second was to close one hospital and transfer as many of its patients as possible into community facilities , resettling those who could not be so placed into the other , retained and upgraded hospital .
15 The royal arms , which symbolized the supremacy of the crown over the church , were generally placed over the tympanum where the rood had previously stood .
16 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 .
17 It is normally placed at the point where sexual arousal is dependent on the element of pain ( inflicted or received ) , but it is not hard to see the variety of ways in which either sadistic or masochistic tendency of any marked degree can affect life-style and relationships even without its overt expression .
18 The pattern of Europe was squarely placed upon the city of Jerusalem when , in 1100 , Baldwin of Boulogne became the first King of Jerusalem .
19 When he returns , however , and becomes deeply involved in researches and investigation at headquarters , he is not placed on the readiness roster until the immediate demands of that investigation have been met .
20 Goblin Fanatics are not placed on the table at the start of the game like other troops .
21 The result of tests on them were not placed before the trial .
22 Next he uses the same technique but this time on to a sheet of transparent glass placed on trestles , which allows the photographer to film the act through the glass , so that we see the paint falling around the pebbles and wires already placed on the glass .
23 One huge hand was already placed in the small of her back , pinning her helplessly to the desk : then she felt him wind a thick hank of her blonde hair around his other fist , and jerk her head back .
24 This possibly indicates that the alignment was intentionally placed over the countryside from the church at Bishops Cannings to the one at Didcot some 54 kilometres away .
25 When these suffixes are attached to single-syllable stems , the stress is almost always placed on the stem .
26 My small table and chair were always placed on the dinner table near her left elbow , and Glumdalclitch stood near me , in case I needed her help .
27 As the stories are presented , the timeless Paradise is always placed at the beginning and the time-bound here-and-now at the end , though in some versions , as in Christianity , there is also a vision of an eschatological future when mankind , redeemed , will once again get back to the Paradisal beginning .
28 The paragraph idea(s) : Most historians put just one main idea in each paragraph , often expressed in one sentence and usually placed at the beginning of the paragraph .
29 In diagrams of the complicated networks of shareholdings that make up these groups , banks are usually placed in the centre .
30 The nuclear industry 's current predicament is usually placed in the context of the near melt-down at Three Mile Island in 1979 and the fatal disaster at Chernobyl , the radioactive fall-out from which was still affecting places as far away as the uplands of Wales and Scotland four years later .
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