Example sentences of "is placed [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Orders are already pouring in for the American-made scarves and bandanas that heat up when a liquid-filled pad is microwaved is placed into a pouch .
2 But God had created both Man and Nature , placing Man into that Nature as a hand is placed into a glove .
3 Firstly , it is placed into the oven on the steam mode for one-third of its cooking cycle .
4 A split infinitive occurs when a word ( usually an adverb ) is placed between the word ‘ to ’ and a following verb , as in ‘ to really understand . ’
5 In some applications a gear is placed between the motor and load with the aim of adjusting the loading on the motor .
6 Each one constitutes a separate ethnic unit , has a self-sufficient economy , a flag , a Supreme Soviet , a council of ministers and , most important , is placed between the area we call Russia and the world outside .
7 A retaining wall of loose bricks or stones separate the bog garden from the pool proper and retains the peaty mixture which is placed over a layer of gravel .
8 A massive , handsome monument of granite is placed over the grave .
9 Various techniques to promote reflux while imaging have been attempted , such as abdominal cuffing , in which a binder is placed over the abdomen and the pressure is increased by inflating it with air .
10 We may extend this metaphor further by suggesting that our everyday experience of stress is rather like a tap which is placed over the glass and into which it drips drops of stress .
11 Once notified , the holder is placed under a duty to nominate a consignee and to give delivery instructions to the carrier with verification by private key .
12 ( In its traditional form , a bunch of keys is placed under the chair in the centre of a large circle .
13 7.2.3 For elderly people , the proposals appear to overlook the difficulties which they may face if , for instance , the contract for cataracts or hip replacements is placed at a hospital some distance away .
14 Rail transport is placed at a disadvantage in Britain .
15 If kung fu kicks are to be effective , they must be delivered from the correct distance : if a kick falls short because it is badly timed , the kicker is placed at a disadvantage .
16 If he is being moved onto a chair with fixed arms , the chair is placed at an angle of about 45° to the bed , and the patient 's foot which is nearer the chair is placed slightly forwards relative to the other .
17 Young men and underclass men in general are also portrayed in disparaging terms in the book , even though the explanation for their behaviour ( criminality , violence , drugs , hanging round pool halls , lick of responsibility for offspring ) is placed at the door of external forces .
18 This is placed at the bottom of the cylindrical casing .
19 The coarsest sieve required is placed at the top of a nest of sieves in which the screen openings become progressively smaller downwards .
20 For example , when a ball is placed at the top of a hill , it will roll downwards .
21 Siporax is placed at the heart of gravel which pre-filters the water before it reaches the sintered glass .
22 At the beginning of each trial food is placed at the end of each arm and the rat left to move from arm to arm , in whatever sequence it chooses , in order to retrieve the food .
23 To give it maximum prominence the statement concerning factorisation in Q[x] is placed at the end of this section ( 1.9.18 ) .
24 ( 2 ) Where under an agreement an officer of a regional council is placed at the disposal of a district council for the purposes of this section , that officer may perform the duties of clerk or assistant clerk of the aforementioned boards .
25 In Homeless History a blown-up snapshot of a young woman , circa 1930 , is placed at the entrance to a room where paper peels away from black mould , shattered plaster exposes beams and woodwork is broken .
26 The master is placed on a drum and comes into contact with damp rollers then ink rollers .
27 With the resin combination used above , the jig is placed on a hotplate and curing carried out at 80°C for about 15 minutes .
28 The mother learns that if the child is placed on a pot at these particular times she is likely to avoid having dirty nappies .
29 In spite of occasional feelings to the contrary , usually described as good or bad luck , the physical world is neither for nor against the actions of the individual ( except in the robotic sense of Le Chatilier 's principle which states that whenever a constraint is placed on a system in equilibrium , the equilibrium is altered in such a way as to annul the efforts of the constraint ) .
30 The teams stand in line and the feather is placed on a chair at the end of the room .
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