Example sentences of "a place at the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The International Student Service came to the rescue with a place at the Northern Polytechnic , with lodgings in a hostel guaranteed by the RCM . |
| 2 | This was consolidated by the desire of smaller states to make the best of their inevitable inferiority by gaining a place at the top table through federation , and by the gradual decline of Austria as the only credible rival for hegemony in Central Europe . |
| 3 | But I know this ; if it is going to work , there is no argument that denies Britain a place at the leading edge of what is happening . |
| 4 | I applied for a place at the Methodist Institution training college in London — and have heard I have been accepted . ’ |
| 5 | Mr Williams recently received the Lympus prize in his FRCO exams and has just been offered a place at the Royal Academy of Music to study organ performance . |