Example sentences of "placed at [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The light travels down an open tube until it hits a curved mirror at the bottom ; the rays are then sent back up the tube on to a smaller , flat mirror placed at an angle of 45 degrees , so that the rays are directed into the side of the tube , where an image is formed and magnified by an eyepiece . |
| 3 | For this reason , if shelter sheds are placed in a paddock , they may have to be placed at the top of the hill and preferably near the gate . |
| 4 | ( Notice how , in both these waist exercises , the weight is also supported by the non-working arm with the hand placed at the top of the thigh . ) |
| 5 | Something had been placed at the top of the steps , a human figure , bundled up in a blanket . |
| 6 | It has been estimated that the real cost of an average package holiday was 16 per cent less in 1987 than 1980 , and this value for money is likely to keep the large groups well placed at the top of the market share listings . |
| 7 | The coarsest sieve required is placed at the top of a nest of sieves in which the screen openings become progressively smaller downwards . |
| 8 | For example , when a ball is placed at the top of a hill , it will roll downwards . |
| 9 | If there was time , a roughly made cross was placed at the head of the dead soldier holding his beret or steel helmet . |
| 10 | During the early years of Edward II 's extravagant and oppressive personal rule , his unpopular favourites were placed at the head of the Forest administration . |
| 11 | To make matters tidy , Prince Rudolf of Habsburg was placed at the head of the committees to promote Bohemian culture . |
| 12 | They have been placed at the head of this chapter only because it is the extreme case which so often bothers the social worker in consideration of what he or she might be involved in if the sexual side of the work develops . |
| 13 | He had been placed at the head of the table , a Solomon come to judgement , but a far from happy one . |
| 14 | He knelt down by a familiar mound and after a moment 's hesitation yanked out the cross that he had placed at the head of the grave . |
| 15 | It was dynastically imperative that the Prussian heir should be placed at the head of an army , too . |
| 16 | Whatever the truth may be , placed at the service of his own dramatic imagination and superb craftsmanship the tonal idiom of the French lyric theatre and its symbolic associations helped Campra to write some of the most engaging cantatas in the repertory . |
| 17 | Siporax is placed at the heart of gravel which pre-filters the water before it reaches the sintered glass . |
| 18 | Amongst his roles , Seth was god of wind and storms and was also placed at the prow of the sun 's boat to avert danger . |
| 19 | Lights from gaslamps which were positioned round the walls of the theatre were dimmed — lamps placed at the edge of the stage were turned up full and Albert DeNero was drenched with light . |
| 20 | A normal signature , placed at the foot of a testamentary document would in most cases carry the implication that the testator intended the signature to give testamentary effect to the document . |
| 21 | Her trunk had been placed at the foot of her bed , whose curtains , in harmony with those at the window , were of heavy glazed chintz patterned with flowers . |
| 22 | The situation was slightly better than in the first half of the 1980s , when more power stations were cancelled than entered service , but those under construction all dated from orders placed at the beginning of the 1970s . |
| 23 | Some were cheered , however , by the news that thanks to lobbying by a group concerned with problems of underdevelopment , ‘ Schema 17 ’ , which treated of the Church and poverty , would be placed at the beginning of session three , to be introduced as soon as the debate on the Church had been completed . |
| 24 | The paragraph idea(s) : Most historians put just one main idea in each paragraph , often expressed in one sentence and usually placed at the beginning of the paragraph . |
| 25 | The first is , at best , a ‘ trade union consciousness ’ or a ‘ subordinate value system ’ , in which people placed at the bottom of the social system recognize they are exploited but seek only to improve their position within it . |
| 26 | This is placed at the bottom of the cylindrical casing . |
| 27 | If this card is an instruction card it must be obeyed by the person asking the question , the instruction card is then placed at the bottom of the pack , instruction cards are ren randomly mixed with the question cards and can change directions of play , make you give to the player to the left one of your cards etcetera , if a player has more than it does n't say . |
| 28 | ‘ He was wide awake while the old Black and Decker was being drilled straight through his kneecap and a donor tendon was being placed at the back of his knee , which is unbelievably advanced surgery . ’ |
| 29 | The combative ethic of politics is inappropriately placed at the centre of the governance of education , which desperately needs to be guided by the values of partnership . |
| 30 | It contains all the elements that have normally been placed at the centre of crisis theory in the Marxist tradition , i.e. the falling rate of profit , excess capital , excess commodities . |