Example sentences of "is placed at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 This is placed at the bottom of the cylindrical casing .
3 The coarsest sieve required is placed at the top of a nest of sieves in which the screen openings become progressively smaller downwards .
4 For example , when a ball is placed at the top of a hill , it will roll downwards .
5 Siporax is placed at the heart of gravel which pre-filters the water before it reaches the sintered glass .
6 One coil electrode is placed at the SVC-RA junction and the second in the right ventricle ( fig 2 ) .
7 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 .
8 To give it maximum prominence the statement concerning factorisation in Q[x] is placed at the end of this section ( 1.9.18 ) .
9 ( 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 .
10 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 .
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