Example sentences of "placing [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is consistent with the previous dating of the paintings to Early Style IV , placing them in the Early Magdalenian era . |
| 2 | Giving reasons , therefore , raises our thoughts and actions from the here and now and from their singularity by placing them in the context of a wider perspective or tradition . |
| 3 | He wrapped me in a warm coat and placing me in the car took me several miles over the moor . |
| 4 | In his memoirs , Wilson makes no bones of placing himself in the line of succession of Baldwin , Churchill and Macmillan . |
| 5 | If I had been standing I could have put it in my personal manifesto that I was a sabbatarian but when the Party committed itself to that , it was placing itself in the position of a church . ’ |
| 6 | The sheriff made an order placing her in the care of the social work department . |
| 7 | The girl , who can not be named for legal reasons , was in court to hear the judge dismiss her father 's appeal against a magistrates ' order placing her in the care of London 's Southwark Council under the 1989 Children Act . |
| 8 | Picking up rubbish and placing it in the bin is one small step in an ever-growing waste crisis . |
| 9 | It is always wise to examine a flower very carefully before placing it in the blotting paper as if it contains any tiny insects they will think they are being provided with a picnic lunch and eat their way through the contents of your press ! |
| 10 | This can become a real problem unless the situation is handled cautiously , because simply lifting the dog up and placing it in the car will be counter-productive . |
| 11 | I helped this along by taking some Flocor from an established filter and placing it in the vat filter . |
| 12 | Indeed , if it is possible to talk of a Keynesian revolution in economic policy , then there is a strong case for placing it in the early 1950s rather than around 1947 . |
| 13 | " Load character " extracts the character referred to by the descriptor , placing it in the least-significant end of the accumulator ( clearing the rest of the accumulator ) ; " Deposit character " stores the character from the least-significant end of the accumulator at the position referred to by the descriptor ( leaving the rest of the string unaffected ) . |
| 14 | However , complete accuracy is not important , as a few years either way make little difference to its value or collectability ; placing it in the right quarter of the appropriate century will nearly always suffice . |
| 15 | Three weeks ago they made a large hole in the gravel and dragged a piece of slate across the tank , placing it in the hole . |
| 16 | ‘ Inserting the device inside the brain , actually placing it in the lateral ventricle ensures that the chemical is evenly spread around the brain . ’ |
| 17 | To compel a pupil to obey a teacher makes no sense without placing it in the context of compulsory schooling enforced legally . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's the severing of the head and placing it in the font which is so brutal , is n't it ? |
| 19 | Its research reputation is also strongly reflected in its success in attracting substantial external support , placing it in the top handful of British research universities . |
| 20 | Central to this was a process of taking control of the workplace away from the operatives and placing it in the hands of management by providing the latter with the technical information that had formerly been monopolized by the former . |
| 21 | I stopped about two metres down from the summit and quietly cocked the gun , inspecting the composite steel and nylon pellet before placing it in the chamber and snicking the gun closed . |
| 22 | ‘ Well ’ Peggy drained her glass before walking to the table and placing it in the tray , and her back to her mother , she , said , ‘ When one is an executive one must act like an executive , must n't one ? ’ |
| 23 | Initially , schools were only to have one microcomputer , so there was an argument for making the microcomputer available to the whole school by placing it in the school library . |
| 24 | Throwing yourself at men , men of gross natures , is a still-greater act of self-abuse , and I can not warn you too strongly that you are placing yourself in the very gravest danger . |
| 25 | Therefore , in order to avoid panic attacks , they stop placing themselves in the situations in which they had previously experienced these feelings . |