Example sentences of "be placed [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Notice that on a run the feet are placed across the board and the body faces the front |
| 2 | You can not only experiment with different feet positions and weighting but also with the angle at which the feet are placed across the board . |
| 3 | The arms are placed across the breast , with the hands directed towards the opposite shoulder , a pose not met with in funerary sculpture . |
| 4 | Touch-operated computer terminals are placed at strategic points allowing us , quite literally , to have the ancient world at our fingertips . |
| 5 | The ten l.e.d.s concerned here are placed at various positions in the ‘ field ’ , each representing a number of runs or a no-score , plus a couple which may lead to a catch or an appeal for lbw . |
| 6 | Also , since some children in care are placed at home on trial , this explanation is blatantly false . |
| 7 | Its nostrils are placed at the ends of two extremities that grow out from the side of its head . |
| 8 | Our eyes are placed at the front of the head , a position shared by the eyes of cats , birds of prey and other hunters . |
| 9 | c Models i General Hospitals Theoretically , general hospital services are unsegregated , but there is often " segregation by stealth " in that dementing patients ( often 10–20% of residents ) are placed at one end of the ward , or in single rooms . |
| 10 | As tv onlookers we are placed at the centre of events no human being could ever witness in the flesh , by close-ups of a bomb's- eye view of the interior of a ventilator shaft right up to the moment of impact . |
| 11 | Less fabric is taken up when they are placed at this angle , preventing the seamline from reducing and puckering . |
| 12 | The positioning of electric equipment is important because of possible splashing with waterjets ; therefore , it is imperative that such equipment is specially protected and that outlet sockets are placed at a level where there is no danger of their coming into contact with water . |
| 13 | At Cirencester a panel containing a sixteen-petalled rosette has a comparable central device , however , the strongest comparisons are to be made with both of the Leicester mosaics , where eight-petalled rosettes similar to those in the Gloucester pavement are placed at the centre of a kaleidoscopic geometric design ( pI . |
| 14 | ‘ As a result they are placed at risk . |
| 15 | All these are inconsistent with ‘ living life ’ , the two words which are placed between inverted commas and imposed at the level of mere idea upon Notes from Underground , but which truly drive Raskolnikov , which are his need to become a man again . |
| 16 | A new dimension is added , and the conflicts are placed between ego instincts and object instincts , both of a sexual , libidinal nature . |
| 17 | Telephones are placed about ¼ apart , numbered 1–17 , not on all on the same side of the tunnel . |
| 18 | Parts are placed into decarbonising tanks and finished off with a compressed air agitated ‘ rinse ’ . |
| 19 | Northampton Town 's Supporters Trust , an independent body set up in January after a public meeting in the town , have unveiled plans to keep the debt-crippled Division Four club alive if they are placed into the hands of the official receiver on March 11 . |
| 20 | Odo , the Abbot of Ferrières , explained his difficulties to Abbot Markward of Prüm : " We are placed betwixt and between — and we float uncertainly . |
| 21 | The skeleton , whose hands are placed over the groin in one of the traditional attitudes of repose , is slightly proud of the shell ; hence the gable lid , resulting in a close-fitting coffin . |
| 22 | There was imposed upon him , which he reaffirmed at his Bar Mitzvah at 12 years of age , a double mark : not only the circumcision by which all Jewish males are placed under the covenantal blessings and duties , but also the onus of priesthood . |
| 23 | The 79 works on display offer an insight into the national psychology ; its effects on artists and the techniques they employed to represent it are placed under the spotlight . |
| 24 | Nov. 13 Three prominent Palestinians are placed under administrative detention [ ibid . ] . |
| 25 | Its laws are made piecemeal by Parliament and by judges , who are placed under no overriding constitutional obligation to preserve or protect the media 's right to report matters of public interest . |
| 26 | Both fireplace and bed are placed beyond the reach of draughts . |
| 27 | In a traditional plant the engine , transmission , and axles are placed onto ‘ the track ’ — a chain-driven series of platforms which move continuously at a fixed pace while the operators work on the cars — and the painted body is lowered onto them . |
| 28 | Here the clarinets are placed above the oboes and would thus give a clear brilliant ‘ tang ’ to the chord . |
| 29 | The girls are placed to their mother 's left against the background of the enclosed garden , the boys to their father 's right . |
| 30 | Since the Library 's collections are dispersed throughout three buildings , it is necessary to have a more or less continuous programme of transferring stock from one floor to another , and from one building to another , in order to create space for expansion and to ensure that the printed collections are placed to the maximum advantage as far as distribution , access and preservation are concerned . |