Example sentences of "[is] placed [prep] " 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 | An infinitely long , perfectly conducting cylinder of radius a is placed into a uniform electric field perpendicularly to the direction of the field lines . |
| 3 | But God had created both Man and Nature , placing Man into that Nature as a hand is placed into a glove . |
| 4 | The one we 're having is placed into a tiny gauze bag overnight with the calix of a freshly plucked lotus . ’ |
| 5 | Firstly , it is placed into the oven on the steam mode for one-third of its cooking cycle . |
| 6 | One alternative Chinese perspective is shen yuan , in which the viewer is placed as if on a hill , and the horizon line is thus high up , almost a bird 's eye view . |
| 7 | Is it that in this society there is much too much material clutter , which is a manifestation ( infestation ) of the weaker sides of brains everywhere , and this is placed as a permanent distraction from , and avoidance of , truth ( the complex abstractual reasoning of which we are all capable ) ? |
| 8 | At another party , in the South of France , a reefer is placed between his lips by a girl whose trousers fall down . |
| 9 | Using a zig-zagging technique with your garden path will create a felling of greater space and , if it is placed between the plantings , will enhance the ‘ separate room ’ effect . |
| 10 | But it is very difficult to blow slurry straight down a tube , so a small tanker or nurse tank is placed between the two . ’ |
| 11 | A particularly precious or tender example may have been ‘ silked ’ by an expert hand , that is placed between two sheets of fine entirely transparent gauze . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | In some applications a gear is placed between the motor and load with the aim of adjusting the loading on the motor . |
| 14 | This is placed between two staves and moved to wherever you want it by using the cursor keys . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The diaphragm is placed between components of the lens system . |
| 17 | ‘ The hand of the corpse is hacked off ; the name of the person whom the witch or warlock wishes to hurt is placed between its fingers and then it 's buried at the foot of a gibbet on the first stroke of midnight . ’ |
| 18 | A massive , handsome monument of granite is placed over the grave . |
| 19 | Your wrists are tied to your ankles , a metal bar is passed under your knees , you are lifted up , hanging from this bar , a wet floor cloth is placed over your face so that you can not breathe , and your head and the soles of your feet and beaten with a leather belt . |
| 20 | Rimming is much safer if a latex barrier is placed over the anal opening and surrounding area , because there is a risk to the active partner not just from HIV ( because faeces may contain infected blood in a person with HIV ) but also from germs living inside the anus , which can lead to hepatitis and other illnesses . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Fig. 3 ( c ) When the entire pool shape has been covered with its first layer of concrete , a reinforcing layer of 5 cm ( 2 in ) mesh chicken wire is placed over the still wet concrete . |
| 24 | Once a layer covers the entire pool shape , a reinforcing layer of 5 cm ( 2 in ) mesh chicken-wire netting is placed over the wet concrete ( Fig. 3c ) . |
| 25 | If there is a lazy eye , a parch is placed over the good eye to force the lazy one to work . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ( In its traditional form , a bunch of keys is placed under the chair in the centre of a large circle . |
| 28 | If the wrong kind of shale or filling is placed under a concrete floor or the foundations , it will cause these to heave like a sponge pudding ; and a missing or defective damp-proof course will result in damp walls , unsightly marks and crumbling plaster . |
| 29 | The Dutch oven is a large iron pot on legs with heavy iron top ; a bed of coals is placed under it and on top of the lid and in about half an hour the food is cooked . |
| 30 | The woman , therefore , is placed under a severe set of conflicting pressures : on the one hand to develop her identity outside the home and , on the other , to develop and improve new and subtle human ‘ skills ’ as a housewife and as a mother . |