Example sentences of "[verb] [art] place [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1983–4 , Wirral not only made the headlines in the tabloid newspapers , but fast became the place for the in-depth story . |
| 2 | A TALENTED North-East teenager has won a place at the prestigious National Youth Theatre . |
| 3 | Wells done BOWLS : John Wells , of Hartlepool , has won a place in the prestigious under-25s national indoor bowls championships to be held at Nottingham on February 22–23 . |
| 4 | Among those who received awards yesterday was Claire Metcalfe , 15 , of Thornaby , who has been practicing judo since she was five and has now won a place in the national team . |
| 5 | Keith Bailey , 18 , from Oxton , Birkenhead , has won a place in the national final of the Rotary Club Inventor of the Year competition at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre on November 14 . |
| 6 | After all , when he starred as champion boxer Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , he put on 60lbs and is reputed to have done enough training to have earned a place in the top twenty world middleweight rankings . |
| 7 | But she has to run 23.30 secs or faster to secure a place in the British team for Barcelona and , still hampered by an Achilles tendon injury , she does n't think she 'll do it . |
| 8 | So she found a place in the old tree which gave her a familiar view of the land . |
| 9 | Academics generally occupy a place in the social division of labour in which the development of knowledge in propositional forms , in a contemplative relationship to the world , has unusual primacy . |
| 10 | The collectivist emphases of the 1961 Programme — more and more services such as transport and housing to be provided free of charge , more public catering and shared upbringing of children — found no place in the new text , nor did the promise of a minimum one month paid holiday for all citizens . |
| 11 | Its primary purpose is to provide a place for the young people of the Diocese to spend time together to develop their faith and to offer training programmes for those in parishes working with young people . |
| 12 | The member of parliament did not give up his efforts to find a place for the young officer , but the close connection between parliamentary politics and placement was made abundantly clear by Scott 's insistence to his correspondent that the young man 's father , a Dundee councillor , would first have to make clear ‘ whether he is to be friendly ’ to the politician . |
| 13 | Largely due to Bernard , they were to come to the forefront of politics and to find a place within the papal court . |
| 14 | In 1989 , Renault failed not just to win an award but even to find a place among the shortlisted contenders . |
| 15 | This was consolidated by the desire of smaller states to make the best of their inevitable inferiority by gaining a place at the top table through federation , and by the gradual decline of Austria as the only credible rival for hegemony in Central Europe . |
| 16 | The one certain thing is that workfare has no place in the economic policy of a civilized country . |
| 17 | Although most upset the family has come to realise Mary has no place in the real world nor their own . |
| 18 | It 's a well-known therapy in places like mental hospitals and prisons and has a place for the elderly as well . |
| 19 | For such critics Hardy traced an essential parallel with the irregularity of Gothic architecture in which he had been trained , and noted ‘ There is latent music in the sincere utterance of deep emotion , however expressed , which fills the place of the actual word-music in rhythmic phraseology on thinner emotive subjects , or on subjects with next to none at all . ’ |
| 20 | One year they won the second grade championship , with Mains as an outstanding left-footed fullback , but were not able to regain a place among the senior Dunedin clubs . |
| 21 | This means that the registering and monitoring arrangements need to be changed and that the statutory authorities need to establish through the joint planning mechanisms a way of incorporating these changes , that health and local authorities need to create a place for the private sector in the planning progress and that the role of bodies like the Mental Welfare Commission , the Hospital Advisory Service , the health councils needs to be extended to encompass and specifically address the whole business of monitoring the provision in the private sector in so far as it 's supported by public funds . |
| 22 | It also , incidentally , sits oddly with the widely peddled idea that Dr Owen is seeking a place in the Major cabinet . |
| 23 | They are among the national squad scullers competing who are seeking a place in the Olympic team . |
| 24 | If we pause for a moment and consider the place of the Neolithic revolution in the theory of human personality and society so far advanced in these pages we will be struck by the fact that the coming of cultivation posed a major threat to the psychological foundations of human society as they had evolved up to that point . |
| 25 | Well Spinks did well to win the place from the young Australian this season with Bosnich having been the man in possession of the goalkeeper 's gloves most of last season . |
| 26 | Should they be successful they will travel to Sweetwater Country Club in Sugar Land , Texas , for the chance of clinching a place on the lucrative L.P.G.A. Tour . |
| 27 | — JON Gittens , a key figure in Middlesbrough clinching a place in the new Premier League next season , wants to join them on a permanent basis from Southampton . |
| 28 | Mathematically , Ipswich need 11 points from their last six games to be certain of securing a place in the Premier League . |
| 29 | Mr Williams recently received the Lympus prize in his FRCO exams and has just been offered a place at the Royal Academy of Music to study organ performance . |
| 30 | Pissarro 's vision of a snow-covered Fox Hill , Upper Norwood , shows a place on the very edge of the country . |