Example sentences of "[adj] place [prep] a [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 What this suggests is that despite valid criticism of their pretensions as theoretical perspectives , the notion of both a dominant ideology and a false consciousness do have at least some place in a theory of ideology .
2 Ibn Battuta describes arriving at this place through a succession of now-vanished gates and courtyards , each surrounded by cohorts of trumpeters and guards .
3 if you want to say put the name of an accent down You wanted to put say Birmingham and then say , How would you rate people who have a strong accent from this place on a scale of one to five for friendless , honesty the things which you could
4 Then we 'll go through this place like a dose of salts .
5 And in the MPA event , she also got a second place with a shot of copper piping taken for Hydro Polymers at Aycliffe .
6 A deal with the Liberal Democrats that did not reflect a more organic change in the political culture of both parties ( the Lib Dems recognising their historic place as a party of the left , giving up their balancing-act illusions ) would be regarded as a cynical manoeuvre by the electorate .
7 He was in Dublin — an improbable place for a display of Pacific oratory — when he declared :
8 As a result , at the end of just one year Louis-Napoleon moved from 50th to 24th place in a class of 94 .
9 Cureton 's achievement is to give prolongation its full place in a theory of rhythm .
10 Nevertheless , they were forced into submission , in the first place by a demonstration of the killing power of firearms .
11 Under the legal definition of crime , it is in theory possible to determine the number of crimes committed in any one place over a period of time .
12 Once he saw a glade , a secret place with a floor of pale , sandy soil .
13 This hidey-hole in the house may have been cunningly and expertly contrived , but it was a bleak and dismal place for a man of thirty to live in .
14 The frogs did as Sergeant advised , and discovered at the far end of the garden , near the brick wall , a fine shady place among a cluster of mossy rocks .
15 That same day , San Sebastian was the trysting place of a series of people whose principal concern , apart from winning the war , was the achievement of a political union " which would have the appearance of spontaneity " .
16 Marot won comfortably in 2:30:55 ; Rasmussen finished two minutes later , in 2:32:58 with Olga Appell of Mexico taking third place in a time of 2:33:18 .
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