Example sentences of "[prep] place [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So from national pride at the North Pole , the well travelled iceaxe takes pride of place on the wall of Number 10 . |
| 2 | So from national pride at the North Pole , the well travelled iceaxe takes pride of place on the wall of Number 10 . |
| 3 | Yet the illustrations are nearly all of women who are pencil-thin enough not to be out of place on the catwalk in a Paris fashion show . |
| 4 | Early in 1983 the new Bomber Command Hall extension had been completed and Sugar was moved the few yards to take pride of place at the entrance to the exhibition , where she still is today . |
| 5 | This passage is given pride of place at the start of the title on trusts in UE , but it is not a very laudable analysis of the notion of a trust . |
| 6 | I confess that I give pride of place to the story of his children on the occasion they organised a charade displaying a Crusader knight returning from the wars . |
| 7 | Johnny Coppin hopes most of all that readers and listeners to his music and poetry collections will get a sense of the spirit of place of the land between the rivers meandering down to the sea |
| 8 | Ellen put them in pride of place above the fireplace in the front room downstairs . |
| 9 | They were in their early thirties , so 1 did not feel too out of place from the point of view of age , and at first no one took any notice of me , as if they thought I was just another mature student . |
| 10 | The Shepherd 's Week ( 1714 ) , though clearly a burlesque , used images of agricultural life that would not be out of place in the work of Duck or of Mary Collier . |
| 11 | Glancing at the table , she saw that the girl had done everything just as she had shown her … the big brown teapot had pride of place in the centre of the table , with the pretty rose-patterned milk jug and sugar bowl beside it . |
| 12 | On stage , however , corseted and hypertense , sounds would emerge which would not have been out of place in the nest of a fledgeling sedge-warbler . |
| 13 | It 's not even got anything to do with his hedge-trimmer pageboy cut or his Oxfam dress sense , which would n't look out of place in the background of an Inspiral Carpets video . |
| 14 | Jerome Blum assigns the tsar pride of place in the list of factors which contributed to the serfs ' emancipation . |
| 15 | He has since painted Prince William 's christening and Prince Charles himself , and the portraits all hang in pride of place in the privacy of Kensington Palace and Highgrove . |
| 16 | James Seely 's experiences while he was in the army may appear out of place in the context of this book . |
| 17 | It was a face out of place in the room of suburban dwellers . |
| 18 | To look at the matter differently , one could say that the members of the economically defined working class in Britain are divided between the ‘ working class ’ and ‘ middle class ’ collectivities , with this division depending on a range of factors including place within the division of labour by strata , parentage , education , home-ownership , and income . |
| 19 | Straight away the units were fixed into place at the back of the school building . |
| 20 | A KEY piece in BNFL 's reprocessing strategy jigsaw has dropped into place with the completion of construction of Sellafield 's second Encapsulation Plant . |
| 21 | This distinction falls beautifully into place with the view of syntax which we sketched in Chapter 1 , but before explaining precisely how the two sorts of qualification work let us consider some more data from English . |
| 22 | Tap into place with the handle of a club hammer |
| 23 | A little too much wind , and everyone patting his hair back into place inside the door of the register office . |
| 24 | Crucial elements are dropping into place in the build-up to the 1992 America 's Cup , writes Keith Wheatley . |
| 25 | In place of the anonymity of the ‘ reign of the street ’ he argued for ‘ enclosed space ’ ; instead of large impersonal urban squares , space should be internalized to promote the values of community . |
| 26 | The document used above was presented as input to the semantic analyser , and the CED used in place of the OALD as the source of definitions . |
| 27 | The Anglo-Saxon earldoms were allowed to expire ; in place of the influence of the Godwines , Roger of Montgomery was made Earl of Sussex in 1070 . |
| 28 | One of the first acts of the new Moldavian Supreme Soviet , which had convened on April 16 , had been to adopt on April 27 as the republic 's official flag the red , yellow and blue tricolour of Romania , in place of the variation on the Soviet red flag previously in use [ see pp. 37257-58 ] . |
| 29 | For the above reasons and those contained in the speech of my noble and learned friend , Lord Templeman , which I have had the privilege of reading in draft , I would allow this appeal on the ground that the courts are entitled to substitute some different protection in place of the privilege against self-incrimination , providing that such protection can properly be considered as adequate protection . |
| 30 | The Pentagon is still accused of organising attempts to construct ‘ military coalitions of the littoral states of the Indian Ocean ’ in place of the demilitarisation of this region . |