Example sentences of "[adj] place in [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was a child there was a damp place in the long meadow where there used to be a lovely yellow flower we call butterballs , and children would bring them for the teacher . |
| 2 | But the top is bounded in a different place in every different table , depending on the marginal distribution of the two variables . |
| 3 | When not drunk or nursing a grievance , Brown was capable of being a big man , honest , courageous , intelligent , prodigiously hard-working and with an unclouded view of Britain 's proper place in a changing world . |
| 4 | The Department of Transport and BR should ensure that ‘ the cost-effectiveness of safe operation of the railway occupies its proper place in a business-led operation ’ . |
| 5 | Overseas exploration and colonial settlement opened up vistas of fabulous riches ; the existence of the barbarians could no longer just be taken for granted ; they had to be fitted in and given their proper place in the ordinary man 's picture of world geography . |
| 6 | The depot and its locomotives have a high place in the Southern enthusiasts ' hearts and Boocock has brought together a collection of pictures that illustrated the life in and around the depot as well as its varied locomotive stud out and about on the system 's metals . |
| 7 | Lubavitch occupies a peculiar place in the Jewish world . |
| 8 | It stated that Scott , who ‘ has fairly earned the most distinguished place in the late competition ’ , should receive the commission , or the fourteen office prize-winners should compete against themselves . |
| 9 | In such circumstances , they were reluctant to abandon their own positions for a possibly lesser place in a new party in which Ian Paisley would play a major part . |
| 10 | he would perhaps have a " certain historical place in the literary history of our period " , and Herbert Read recalled how he might on occasions say , " Valery , Yeats and I … " . |
| 11 | He added : ‘ In reality , the royal women have a second-class place in the Royal Family , and no one more so than the Princess of Wales . ’ |
| 12 | These aims have gained a high symbolic place in the public imagination and the institution has set out to prevent and detect acts which are usually subsumed under a generic ( but simplistic ) classification of ‘ crime ’ . |
| 13 | Now they had an opportunity for acceptance , for respectability , for an official place in the social structure — in exchange for certain compromises and relaxations in dogma . |
| 14 | Dockworkers occupied a crucial place in the economic process , which they exploited to raise their earnings considerably above the average for manual workers . |
| 15 | The foal becomes a social animal and part of the herd , and as it matures it is likely to take a similar place in the social hierarchy of the herd as its mother . |
| 16 | Readiness for war , as well as the actual waging of war , becomes a principal political concern , military leaders acquire a more prominent place in the political system , and the economy is geared increasingly to military needs , giving rise to what has been called the ‘ military-industrial complex ’ as one of the main centres of power and of economic growth . |
| 17 | The trends I have identified here clearly occupied a central place in the political thought of Max Weber , of Marxist thinkers such as Bauer and Hilferding , of Schumpeter , and of their numerous followers and successors . |
| 18 | This is very true of contemporary civilian politics in Nigeria , where the mass media occupy a central place in the new democracy . |
| 19 | It seems relevant that anthropology be used at this time to contribute to the debate on policing , for since the 1964 Police Act and the preceding Royal Commission which was generated through concern over police practice , the organization has held an increasingly central place in the public imagination . |
| 20 | Science now occupied a central place in the ensuing debate over national efficiency . |
| 21 | The Leeds striker 's world fell apart when a hamstring injury cost him his first-ever place in a senior England squad in Spain tomorrow . |
| 22 | It has an impressive enrolment count and a strong place in the local community . |
| 23 | As always each team , a mix of GBP members and celebrities , chases points in the battle to win a luxury weekend break prize and a possible place in the grand final . |
| 24 | Consequently , each earthly object would have a natural place in the sub-lunar region depending on the relative proportion of the four elements that it contained . |
| 25 | In particular he will never rely on the operator spontaneously remembering to do something which has no natural place in the developing task ( p. 56 ) . |
| 26 | Their habits have probably always been similar , and if survival is to be taken as a measure of success , their conservative way of life has ensured them of a leading place in the evolutionary marathon . |
| 27 | A group of works by contemporaries , often friends collected by an enthusiastic and discerning individual is always appealing and ken Powell takes a deserved place in a long line of such patrons . |
| 28 | The role of the hundred meeting point as a focal place in the late Saxon and early medieval landscape has remained largely unappreciated , although R. H. Britnell has recently discussed the potential . |
| 29 | There is a definite set of biomorphs , each permanently sitting in its own unique place in a mathematical space . |
| 30 | They are determined to take their rightful place in a new South Africa . |