Example sentences of "[adj] place [prep] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , the visitor to Thorikos , if taken there blindfold from the real city-state of Euboian Eretria , might well find it hard to tell the two apart , and might think that he was in another place with the same independent status : there is a fortified acropolis , a theatre and a temple — just as at Eretria . |
| 2 | Nearing my twelfth birthday , I was fortunate enough to secure a free place at the local secondary school . |
| 3 | The real issue was put in possibly the best speech that I have heard in this place by the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) last night . |
| 4 | Frequently for a carer , personal needs take second place to the hard physical and mental effort required for the dependant . |
| 5 | ‘ Action cards ’ , outlining individual staff members ' responsibilities are kept in an easily accessible place in the central nursing administration office . |
| 6 | The Prince took his customary place before the plain white marble fireplace . |
| 7 | Although religious history may be interpreted to indicate that this struggle has been undertaken at the behest of , or in support of , some extraterrestrial ‘ god ’ , this is not really correct , and none of those ancient ‘ gods ’ must be allowed to usurp the rightful place of the emerging Created God . |
| 8 | But the technology that permitted the almost immediate availability of match results and reports meant that sport came to occupy a larger place in the daily national press . |
| 9 | According to Honderich , if people find Britain a harsh place in the 1990s then Conservatism is to blame . |
| 10 | The Model E NC46V was used by Bayles to gain fourth place in the 1931 National Air Tour at over 140mph and at the National Air Races in that year Robert Hall ( chief designer to Granville Brothers Aircraft Inc ) flew the Sportster D NC11043 to gain first place in a 400cu in pylon race , and Bayles and Mae Haizlip used the same aircraft to gain places in several other races in 1931 . |
| 11 | Roberto Policano , sent off during the away leg , is suspended but Torino have hit a patch of impressive form which has consolidated their fourth place in the fiercely-competitive Italian league . |
| 12 | In fact any subject matter can be examined and taught with a significant resource-based component , although as in our examples above there is likely always to be an important place for the directed expository lesson , whether " lead " or otherwise . |
| 13 | ? Felicity also achieved a very creditable seventh place in the recent Italian round of the UIAA World Cup . |
| 14 | There was no stopping Scottish Amicable team A comprising Jim Hill ( now Aberdeen branch ) , Graeme Cowie ( now Edinburgh branch ) and Lorna Caird ( redundant ) who took first place with the highest total team score . |
| 15 | Quick off the mark : first place in the 1993 Golden Parcel academic hotline awards went to Butterworth Law , with an average delivery time of 1.63 days . |
| 16 | He had said he might be late , after all , and she decided to snatch a few more moments of privacy to recharge her batteries in the one place in the whole luxurious house where she was able to relax and feel she was her own person . |
| 17 | Consultant microscopist and photomicrographer Spike Walker achieved fifth place in the annual international Nikon Smallworld photomicrography competition with a slide of desmid , a freshwater algae , and 19th place with the slide of vitamin C . |
| 18 | A quiet swear word now serves instead of a punch-up with one of her woods , while she had encouraging finishes such as a fourth equal in the Players ' Championship at Tytherington and a fifth place in the recent Gislaved Ladies ' Open in Sweden . |
| 19 | Brazilian Christian Fittipaldi was fourth in a Minardi ahead of Finland 's J J Lehto who grabbed fifth place in the rain-drenched closing stages for the new Swiss team Sauber . |
| 20 | Brazilian Christian Fittipaldi was fourth in a Minardi ahead of Finland 's JJ Lehto who grabbed fifth place in the rain-drenched closing stages for the new Swiss team Sauber . |
| 21 | Fifth place in the 1951 British Grand Prix , with Raymond Mays at the wheel , was the best the BRM ever achieved in a world championship event . |
| 22 | She had turned her big dining room into a study ; there each boy had his own place at the big felt-covered table , — books could be left undisturbed . |
| 23 | Two normal observers viewing the same object from the same place under the same physical circumstances do not necessarily have identical visual experiences , even though the images on their respective retinas may be virtually identical . |
| 24 | And , in the twentieth century , revisionism occupies much the same place in the Soviet Russian construction of Marxism as did heresy in the medieval church . |
| 25 | This might be something that has a legitimate place in the original complex equation — it might be peace education , anti-racism or teachers ' rights — but which is inflated to fill the whole screen . |
| 26 | Despite the advances made by several clubs and in spite of the tireless education advice offered by the Scottish Professional Footballers Association , football remains an attractive place for the walking wounded . |
| 27 | ULSTER driver Stephen Finlay , who finished in a superb third place on the British Open ( or international ) championship Vauxhall Sport Rally in Wales last weekend , moves to Scotland this week to defend his lead in the British national series . |