Example sentences of "be placed [prep] the [det] " in BNC.

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1 Even when nominally on loan shelves , as in libraries in which loan and reference stocks are placed on the same shelves , these kinds of book are not borrowed but referred to .
2 I do n't object to ladies being printers , provided they are placed on the same equality as men .
3 The arrangement of things into classes , such as the class metal , or the class man , is grounded indeed on a resemblance among the things which are placed in the same class , but not on a mere general resemblance ; the resemblance it is grounded on consists in the possession by all those things of certain common peculiarities ; and those peculiarities it is which the terms connote , and which the propositions consequently assert ; not the resemblance .
4 ‘ By the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 , the defendants are placed in the same position as the ordinary subjects of the Crown ( see section 21 of the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 ) and I see no reason why they should not in appropriate cases refuse to refund money paid to them voluntarily under a mistake of law , as the revenue authorities were held to be entitled to do in the case of William Whiteley Ltd. v. The King and National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King .
5 Why two such important Russian spies should have been placed in the same cell block so that they could freely meet and talk together is a mystery .
6 Over one year , a £10 a month investment would be worth a respectable £143.26 now , if it could have been placed in the same hypothetical fund .
7 where a party sustains a loss by reason of a breach of contract , he is , so far as money can do it , to be placed in the same situation with respect to damages , as if the contract had been performed .
8 We may be placed in the same street , but there is room for both of us and more .
9 Alternatively , several pieces of music , and perhaps all the works of your favourite composer , could be placed in the same frame , and there are many variations on this theme that you can follow .
10 They should always be placed in the same positions each time ; you should be able to put your hand on any of them at a moment 's notice : no scrabbling around !
11 Although Fortunatus was an Italian , and although there is nothing comparable to his books of poetry in the sixth-century west , in many respects his writings can be placed in the same tradition as those of Sidonius and Avitus .
12 If possible the runs should not be placed in the same areas in successive years .
13 Given a cast of heroes and villains , there was no question but that clerical opponents of fruitful innovation would be placed among the latter .
14 The decision to create a socialist economy and the consequences that flow from that can not be placed upon the same level as the results of unconscious decisions and actions ( at the macro level ) which result in equilibrium for a commodity-capitalist economy , since the later is post hoc , whilst the former is the result of the initial decision to build a socialist economy .
15 No station was allowed to take a prize in the same class for more than two successive years , but if a station which had done so was deemed worthy of being placed in the same class in a third year , it received a special first-class certificate but no money .
16 Cities such as Glasgow and Edinburgh were placed in the same sort of category as non-metropolitan districts in England although they had populations larger than the more rural regions and all the island councils .
17 For example , the freesia buds are quite thick and , if they were placed in the same layer as the petals , they would prevent the thin flowers from receiving even pressure from the weight above .
18 An adequate explanation must both make clear what an action means to the participants , and how far the same outcome would result if different people were placed in the same context .
19 Counting was slow due to the complex voting system and to the fact that separate voting papers for the three abortion referendums [ see below ] were placed in the same ballot boxes .
20 The singer shares the same acoustic environment and is placed on the same arc as the strings to produce a completely natural effect overall .
21 This passage sheds much light on the method of ‘ Mr. Eliot 's Sunday Morning Service ’ where the self-mutilation of ‘ enervate Origen ’ is placed in the same lineage as the sexual origin of ‘ the Word ’ , and where the initial ‘ sapient sutlers of the Lord ’ who ‘ Drift across the window-panes ’ is a passage with an ambiguous , or better ambivalent , reference , since it holds together in one term both the ‘ sable presbyters ’ who bring offerings to church and ‘ the bees ’ who bring pollen from one part of the plant to another and so perform the ‘ Blest office of the epicene ’ .
22 If , six months later , it is placed in the same box and given an injection of saline , it displays the identical behaviour as when given the drug .
23 The provisions of s 3 of the UCTA apply equally in these circumstances , and the protected party is placed in the same position as a consumer , even if he is acting as a businessman .
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