Example sentences of "are place [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Our eyes are placed at the front of the head , a position shared by the eyes of cats , birds of prey and other hunters . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Both fireplace and bed are placed beyond the reach of draughts . |
| 10 | If the surgeon believes that they would benefit from an operation , their names are placed on the waiting list and they are asked to come into hospital when a bed is available . |
| 11 | Possible extensions to active word edges are not added to the Chart as soon as they are found but are placed on the Agenda . |
| 12 | 1984 ; Schmitt 1982b ) but the one most often used in Britain consists of two pads of wire mesh that are placed on the child 's bed with a sheet separating them and another sheet on top for the child to lie on . |
| 13 | Bricks or stones are placed on the overlap and water filling is then started by means of a hose . |
| 14 | Laws have been passed to restrict the use of the ‘ rolling hook' ’ fishing method , in which groups of large unbaited hooks are placed on the river bed , with the intention of impaling large catfish . |
| 15 | All the living and bedrooms are placed on the south side , facilitating the effective area of plain wall on the north . |
| 16 | The stakes are placed on the board , one for each honour and the game , two for ‘ Matrimony ’ ( King and Queen of trumps ) , two for ‘ Intrigue ’ ( Queen and Knave ) , and six for ‘ Pope Joan ’ ( the nine of diamonds ) . |
| 17 | The disadvantages are the limitations that are placed on the observer who can only gain a limited amount of information without intruding and thus altering the spontaneity of the behaviour . |
| 18 | The extra constraints that are placed on the input by considering the tag in the context of each of the three positions in the trigram window ( i.e. start , middle and end of the trigram ) improve the selection of the correct word from the lattice . |
| 19 | However , restrictions are placed on the power of management to combat a hostile takeover bid , for fear that they might act only in their own interests rather than for those of the company or its shareholders . |
| 20 | Because Statementing is concerned with the allocation of resources rather than with the identification of needs strict limits are placed on the power of parents to affect the Statementing process . |
| 21 | Substantive limits are placed on the power of the public body , and the appropriate test for such limits is a topic of much contention . |
| 22 | This is made crystal clear in a somewhat laboured exposition in a book by Preece and Maier published in 1889 : Let us suppose the two microphonic transmitters are placed on the stage at T and T 1 , and these transmitters separately connected by two distinct wires to two telephone receivers , R and R 1 , which are applied to both ears to hear the actor , whom we will suppose to be placed at A. It is easy to understand that , the distance of this actor from transmitter T being less than that from transmitter T 1 , his song will be more distinctly reproduced by transmitter T than by T 1 , and the stronger impression will be produced on the left ear . |
| 23 | When the end is coming , screens are placed round the bed ; in any case there are unlikely to be any ‘ last words ’ , because most of us die under some form of sedation . |
| 24 | In some applications the infra red sources and detectors are placed around the edge of the visual display unit , a cheaper method of providing an interactive screen than embedding touch pads into the glass . |
| 25 | Mirrors are placed around the wiggler to reflect the emitted light back and forth , causing amplification on each pass by stimulated emission . |
| 26 | WATER TANKS AND PIPES Insulating water tanks is the next job and this can be done with special padded material , secured in place by wire , or with special ready-made padded jackets , or , if you have a standard-sized water tank , with special pre-cut packs of sheet insulation that are placed around the tank and secured with tape or wire . |
| 27 | The points are placed in the ice with a firm swing of the foot . |
| 28 | During the evening the females are placed in the aquarium , after which some brine shrimp and sifted Daphnia are added . |
| 29 | Advertisements are placed in the press , and potential purchasers are invited to telephone or fill in a coupon for further details . |
| 30 | The metal telephone cases are placed in the Man Holes with an electric light shining on them . |