Example sentences of "place on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owers ’ place on the right side of midfield has been occupied recently by David Rush , Peter Davenport and Brian Mooney , who naturally all have their own Cup final aspirations . |
| 2 | Grill the kebabs and place on the hot rice to serve . |
| 3 | The social cost is measured by the cumulative difference between the value that consumers place on the lost output and its marginal production cost . |
| 4 | Richer countries had a special responsibility " in view of the pressures their societies place on the global environment " . |
| 5 | Richer countries had a special responsibility " in view of the pressures their societies place on the global environment " . |
| 6 | Fascinated , Dr Neil , who had opened the bag and was beginning to pull out strange-looking forceps and a bottle of chloroform , watched her lift up her black skirt to reveal a spotless white petticoat , from which she cut a large square which she placed on the grimy table , having first cleared to one side the used cups and plates covered in half-eaten food . |
| 7 | Before Cowley could add anything further , Roz Hatch appeared on the back lawn , carrying a tray of coffee , which she placed on the wide garden table . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Slowly he hung his trousers on a hanger , which he placed on the communal rail which ran through the dressing room . |
| 10 | It refers to the duty being placed on the new committee , ( a ) to monitor the effects of this Act on bus passengers in Scotland ; and , ( b ) to make recommendations to bus operators and the Secretary of State regarding the effects of this Act on bus passengers in Scotland . " |
| 11 | The diffused fill light is now placed on the other side of the camera . |
| 12 | The two other chairs are placed on the other side of this table , still farther to the right , so that they do not block the view of the first two through the balustrade of the veranda . |
| 13 | This involves the balance of emphasis placed on the mental health status of the patient versus the social risk they present ( to the health or safety of the patient or protection of others ) . |
| 14 | When keys are returned care must be taken to see that they are placed on the correct key hook . |
| 15 | This stops the hip from moving properly , and twists the pelvis , so that a sudden , sharp strain is placed on the sacroiliac joint at the base of the spine . |
| 16 | Extend the back leg and slide it backwards , the free hand being placed on the upper thigh of the extended leg . |
| 17 | In 1875 Caton , the professor of physiology at Liverpool , had shown that electrodes placed on the exposed brain of a rabbit could record electrical pulses , but Berger 's records came through the skull and could easily be dismissed as artefacts until his results were systematically vindicated by the Cambridge neurophysiologists Adrian and Matthews in the mid-1930s . |
| 18 | In 1815 he was placed on the reserve list and returned to Edinburgh . |
| 19 | Emphasis is being placed on the cognitive basis of social identity in contrast to the more familiar emphasis on evaluations . |
| 20 | At other periods more emphasis might be placed on the political role of the coin design and this allowed a greater variety of designs to be used . |
| 21 | A few minutes later the Deruta vase containing about half a kilo of assorted chocolates had been placed on the rear seat of the Volvo and he was sitting in the front watching Cinzia tear up the parking ticket which had been tucked under the windscreen wiper . |
| 22 | The village was quiet with only a couple of old men sitting on a bench outside the church as we drove through the gates of the big house and along the road through the village , passing the Chateau where the Commando dead had been placed on the front lawn shortly after we had entered the village , and during the bitter fighting of the first ten days . |
| 23 | Children love balloons and these , placed on the front door , identifies your home as the one in the street where the special event is going to occur . |
| 24 | At the outset of a partnership that was to lead to great success , Allison was placed on the front line of the band 's paranoid attitude to outside influence . |
| 25 | Question 14 Do you agree that no overall limit should be placed on the annual amount payable from the compensation fund ? |
| 26 | Although much recent work ( Maos , 1983 , 47 ) confirms that ‘ the efficiency of services is higher in concentrated settlement patterns and can be further improved by the transfer of service functions from lower to higher ranking centres ’ , some recent work has called for less emphasis to be placed on the economic evaluation of service provision . |
| 27 | Greater emphasis should also have been placed on the economic context in which disputes occur and on the state of political consensus — primarily , whether the trade unions are accepted in a ‘ partnership ’ role with the state , or are defined as problematic to its objectives ( Ragin et al , 1982:243 ) . |
| 28 | He suffered , however , from severe seasickness and in 1885 he was placed on the retired list . |
| 29 | Too much emphasis was placed on the necessary function of actually producing an annual programme to which different parties can agree and that identifies the full list of projects seeking funding . |
| 30 | Indeed , many of us thought that more emphasis should be placed on the cooperative use of the land resources of the crofts , perhaps on the lines of the ‘ joint managements ’ developed in southern Italy by the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno . |