Example sentences of "[noun prp] placed [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Huxley , the exponent of laboratory physiology , won a great victory over Owen when he contrived to get a statue of Darwin placed on the main staircase of the Natural History Museum ; but justice has been done with the passage of time , and Owen 's statue is now in pride of place in his building . |
| 3 | That will be a considerable relief to Mr Bond , who could in certain circumstances have seen his entire 35 per cent stake in BSB placed with the other equity participants , which include Granada , Pearson , Reed International and Chargeurs of France . |
| 4 | She had n't needed to speak Danish to realise the contents of the bottle : the water of life … call it would you would … it was pure unadulterated spirit and it had its equivalent in every country of the world which indulged in alcohol , so potent it should only be consumed in small doses as the tiny , liqueur-sized vessels that Rune placed on the table testified … |
| 5 | What is clear is that the degree to which the reformers achieved their stated aims was muted first of all by a partial backtracking on policy after 1947 under the pressures of worsening relations between the United States and the Soviet Union , and the burden which an economically prostrate Japan placed on the US taxpayer . |
| 6 | When the party 's secretary-general , Ichiro Ozawa , resigned recently , Mr Takeshita placed in the job one of his most faithful lieutenants , Keizo Obuchi . |