Example sentences of "placed [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chairman , James Millar , said that while Invergordon could not be immune to the volume and margin pressures currently being experienced by the Scotch whisky industry , the group was well placed through the mix of its business to ride out the present difficulties . |
| 2 | It meant the horse that was placed between the shaf of a cart , as opposed to the trace-horse which pulled in front of the thiller . |
| 3 | It is inconceivable that we could advise our clients in the manner in which Council has advised this institute , A ‘ brown-field ’ site out of London , in say Leeds or Sheffield or York , could attract development grants , rates deferrals and provide jobs and would be better placed for the majority of the membership . |
| 4 | A contract has been placed for the supply of this equipment to prisons that hold category A prisoners . |
| 5 | Redlands , therefore , is ideally placed for the establishment of warehousing , distribution , commercial and service facilities and hotel development . |
| 6 | George was placed towards the end of a gigantic column , headed by five thousand Jews in poor physical condition . |
| 7 | It simply acts as an empty subject which allows a certain element such as the book or in China to be placed near the beginning of the clause and to be interpreted as its theme , that is , what the message is about . |
| 8 | Given so little space , however , perhaps we need not have been reminded , as we are in Stanley Cramp 's foreword , that ‘ Ducks , geese , and swans live in or near water ’ , nor that the legs of the last two ‘ are placed near the middle of the body , so that the bird stands fairly upright ’ , Malcolm Ogilvie can tell most people something they did not know about wildfowl , but in this case his publishers clearly rushed him . |
| 9 | During take-offs and landings , some Flying Control personnel would occupy a caravan placed near the start of the runway being used , and they would fire green or red flares to let the aircraft know if they were cleared to land or take-off , and on this occasion one of the men was very quick off the mark , saw the crash and was immediately on the spot , helping the crew to get out of the burning aircraft . |
| 10 | They passed through the hall again ; then he followed her across the lawn to where a rough wooden table was placed near the trunk of a large oak tree , to which was nailed an equally rough seat . |
| 11 | Wycliffe 's table was placed against the row of windows at one end of the temporary building . |
| 12 | In 1914 they launched what was one of their crazier attacks , and on 4th June , the deaf community of Dundee was very nearly the victim when a massive bomb was placed against the doorway of Dunhope Castle , the home of Dundee School for the Deaf and the Dundee Mission to the Deaf and Dumb . |
| 13 | At Wigan , a reredos depicting the death of Ananias , which had been woven in the Mortlake tapestry works , was placed behind the altar of the parish church , and at Nicholas Ferrar 's parish church at Little Gidding in Cambridgeshire , a reredos consisting of three brass plates inscribed with the Ten Commandments , the Creed , and the Lord 's Prayer was erected . |
| 14 | Screens were placed along the length of the hall dividing it into four aisles , leaving spaces at either end and a way through to the Law Courts , which at that time were on the west side of the hall . |
| 15 | Police seized 3,000 pieces of evidence during their raid on the foundry , placed under the name of Hains 's former wife Solange Jonkheere , who was also charged . |
| 16 | The young Maconochie was placed under the guardianship of Allan Maconochie ( Lord Meadowbank , q.v. ) , a close kinsman , later judge of the supreme court of Scotland . |
| 17 | THE 14-year-old girl who launched an action to ‘ divorce ’ herself from her parents was yesterday placed under the guardianship of the High Court . |
| 18 | The government of the FRG declares that the memorials set up on German soil which are dedicated to Soviet victims of the [ Second World ] War and of the tyranny shall be respected and placed under the protection of German laws . |
| 19 | The guerrillas were flown to Phnom Penh where they were placed under the protection of UN troops prior to resettlement in the United States . |
| 20 | They were placed under the supervision of a senior student , Richard Lawrence of Birmingham , who was to have one guinea a week and board and accommodation at the expense of the College . |
| 21 | Each religious community — or millet — was placed under the supervision of its own leaders , who acted as agents for the imperial government in collecting taxes and maintaining order amongst their people . |
| 22 | A child can only be placed under the supervision of a probation officer if the local authority request this and there is already a probation officer working with another member of the household ( Sched 3 , para 9(2) ) . |
| 23 | During the first century after the fall of the Serbian despotate in 1459 , the Serbian Church was placed under the authority of the Greek archbishop of Ohrid , although the local parish clergy remained Slav . |
| 24 | Though brought to England and placed under the care of Dr Arbuthnot , the foremost physician of the day , who had him christened Peter , he remained inarticulate and half savage . |
| 25 | Coal and Power called for an integrated and rationalized scheme for power , a follow up to the Liberal Manifesto of 1923 which suggested that coal and power supplies should be placed under the control of a public board presided over by a minister . |
| 26 | Although officially named as a branch of the military , MI5 was placed under the control of the Foreign Office . |
| 27 | One or more of these groups was placed under the control of an individual . |
| 28 | The campaign for moral reform intensified during 1655 and 1656 , when the country was placed under the control of Cromwellian major-generals . |
| 29 | The plan had to be dropped , and eventually a British suggestion was adopted , under which West Germany was re-armed , but her forces were placed under the control of NATO . |
| 30 | Various branches of the former FDP were demilitarized and placed under the control of the Justice Ministry . |