Example sentences of "[pos pn] place in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I turned down a new contract at the end of the season , even though it meant getting a testimonial next year because I 've got to be playing in the Premier League to confirm my place in the Irish side . |
| 2 | As I took my place in the darkened centre stage for the opening of the first act , and the lights slowly came up , I saw a sight which I 've never seen before , a sight which chilled me to the marrow and froze me to the spot . |
| 3 | Nicolas Poussin 's ‘ A dance to the music of time ’ ( 1639–40 ) which gave its name to the famous series of novels by Anthony Powell , was recently returned to its place in the Great Gallery following restoration by Herbert Lank , Simon Bobak and Nonie Tasker . |
| 4 | Both these are very different from the ‘ experimental researches ’ which made up Faraday 's main research-publications , where every paragraph is numbered consecutively up to 3,299 , and where theorizing is kept in its place in the Baconian manner . |
| 5 | It too , however , would soon make way to allow the changes necessary if the brewery was to take its place in the modern world . |
| 6 | Snowdon also has its place in the magical history of Britain . |
| 7 | However , we need to adopt a balanced viewpoint and accept that the use of drugs can not be totally ruled out ; everything has its place in the holistic scheme of things . |
| 8 | Although intuitive aromatherapy is much derided by orthodox practitioners ( and even by a few scientifically minded aromatherapists ) , it too has its place in the holistic scheme of things . |
| 9 | When a social profile of a certain group is constructed using these variables , its place in the social hierarchy is usually evident . |
| 10 | What is its place in the social hierarchy of knowledge ? |
| 11 | These complications have led to a whole variety of views as to the composition of the middle class and its place in the social structure . |
| 12 | In politics he was usually to the left of H. M. Hyndman , whom he much admired , but he accepted the latter 's scepticism towards trade unionism and its place in the socialist movement . |
| 13 | Form is made perceptible against a background of existing literary form , and the function of a device is determined not just by the structural hierarchy of a particular work , but by its place in the literary system as a whole . |
| 14 | Whatever its place in the literary league tables , After Silence is undoubtedly entertaining : Carroll 's style has a high gloss , twinkling with near epigrams : his novel is packed with cute , intelligent or attractively wacky characters — cartoonist Mac Fisher , his lover Lily Aaron , her little boy Lincoln , the temperamental gay owners of the restaurant where Lily works , all inhabit the warm , cutesy , feel-good world of an Armistead Maupin novel . |
| 15 | Dickie the Great Dane has been entrusted with the unusual task of demonstrating that safe sex has its place in the canine world . |
| 16 | Irrespective of the circumstances of their composition , the Anglo-Norman fabliaux were transmitted , eventually , and preserved for posterity because the fabliau was recognized as a genre which had its place in the full range of new and recent vernacular literary production in England . |
| 17 | Dill has been slow to win its place in the English kitchen . |
| 18 | It would be easier , he thinks , at dawn , to fix his gaze steadily on one particular light and then to establish its place in the returning landscape . |
| 19 | Her success against 31 other drivers in the regional contest won her place in the national final in Bedfordshire later this year . |
| 20 | Käthè Kollwitz seemingly used her autobiographical writing in letters and the diary to establish a sense of her place in the artistic community . |
| 21 | Still , even these , to whatever extent they are not merely believed in , but have come to be actually felt in the world as we experience it , will thereby have their place in the real fabric of the world , which must certainly include all personal or socially shared versions of it . |
| 22 | The more fully we have developed ourselves the more cause for such gratitude we will have , and the more we understand the cosmos , particularly by grasping the true nature of detailed parts of it and their place in the total scheme , the more we will appreciate the sheer wonderfulness of it , and arrive at a kind of mystical adoration of it . |
| 23 | She never forgets that it 's Howard to whom they all owe their place in the new order of things . |
| 24 | We also value our school sixth forms , and will ensure they retain their place in the new system . |
| 25 | Slough , winners of the Ty-Phoo National League for the third successive season , have already guaranteed their place in the European Club Championship next year . |
| 26 | Those in the lower group of six would play a total of 36 matches with the first two teams keeping their place in the Premier Division while the rest would be relegated in 1994 . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , the bookies have made Swindon four-to-five-on favourites to clinch their place in the Premier League after their aggregate victory over Tranmere in the Semi-Final . |
| 28 | His former club , who grabbed their place in the Premier League via a 4–3 play-off final victory over Leicester City , would probably have been a prime candidate for relegation in any event . |
| 29 | This process will continue whether or not teachers have a broader grasp of their place in the whole process . |
| 30 | Their place in the top flight depends on their remaining games , against title-chasing Orrell and Northampton , and the fortunes of Rugby , who are a point above them with Harlequins and Leicester to play . |