Example sentences of "[prep] be placed on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five of eight houses offered for sale at Sanquhar Den in Forres , near Inverness , were snapped up within days of being placed on the market . |
| 2 | That core of meaning is necessarily general and vague enough to make such variations possible , but it is not so vague as to permit any meaning whatsoever to be placed on the word . |
| 3 | On behalf of the defendant it was argued that some limitation had to be placed on the word " practice " and the natural and proper limitation was to imply the words " as medical practitioners " . |
| 4 | Furthermore , the very frequency of legislative change caused a higher premium to be placed on the flexibility of any computer system . |
| 5 | If one word is used out of context as an index heading , plainly it will be difficult to establish the interpretation to be placed on the homograph . |
| 6 | This particularly applies to the more beautiful showpiece villages , which by their very reputation attract more newcomers and by their more picturesque appearance prompt a premium to be placed on the price of local homes . |
| 7 | As he was not involved in the investigation , Mayer had put him in touch with a colleague , Bert Pinsdorf , in Germany , who , in answer to the same question , said the ‘ BKA had serious concerns that the drug-sting operation originating in Cyprus had caused the bomb to be placed on the Pan Am plane . ’ |
| 8 | The Society hopes that any possible rescue package will ensure that the house soon to be placed on the market by the receivers will become the responsibility of a charitable trust such as The National Trust . |
| 9 | Now twenty two is not a large number , certainly not large enough for any statistical reliability to be placed on the result , but the fact remains that if you had bet on every single horse in that season at two to one on , and had bet the same amount , then you 'd have finished ahead . |
| 10 | If the Labour Party had announced , in 1964 or 66 , its intention to ‘ oppose capitalism ’ fundamentally and had explained what this was likely to involve in terms of dislocation of international trade and payments ( even Callaghan 's mildly redistributive budget of 1964 was enough to cause a run on the pound ) , and the onus which would have to be placed on the trade unions in running industry , given the likely non-co-operation of many among the managerial strata , it is quite implausible to say they would have been elected to office . |
| 11 | The remainder of the plates were taken to be placed on the table , and she began rolling the cutlery into paper napkins , her fingers shaking as she did so . |
| 12 | Clearly , there are further topics to be placed on the sociologist 's agenda when studying teachers ' work if we are to move beyond the assumption that we all know about teachers and teaching . |
| 13 | That all new material be labelled using a computer-based labelling system to enable , where available , additional information to be placed on the slide mount . |
| 14 | The teacher 's role here in providing the right amount of guidance in the investigation is most important , with room for wide differences of approach , particularly on the levels of demand to be placed on the pupil . |
| 15 | ( 4 ) Reasonable limits had to be placed on the use of deputies to enable the doctor to fulfil his fundamental obligation of giving treatment personally . |
| 16 | Environmental groups are campaigning for more money and importance to be placed on the needs of cyclists , with a target of doubling cycle use over the next five years . |
| 17 | ‘ My next book is to be placed on the Broads ’ , Arthur Ransome wrote to his mother in 1934 , ‘ with all those rivers , and hiding places in the dykes and the little stretches of open water . |
| 18 | Entry into the artillery or engineer branches through Woolwich demanded early action , for a candidate had to be placed on the list at eleven years old , in order to hope to secure a place before the age limit of fifteen had been passed . |