Example sentences of "the [adj] place of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The by-product of his work is to vindicate the proper place of the Christian intellectual within the community . |
| 2 | Acute hardship persisted until widows ' pensions — granted in 1925 — ameliorated the problem , but even then ambivalent feelings on the part of the authorities about the proper place of the able-bodied widow persisted . |
| 3 | He spoke about the Jews in an Egyptian context , though the fragment preserved by Diodorus and quoted by Photius does not allow us to see the exact place of the Jewish excursus in the plan of his book . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Agriculture , too , felt the wind of change , with an agronomist , Rafael Cavestany , taking the ministerial place of the Falangist Carlos Reín . |