Example sentences of "take [art] place [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move is helped by the invention of Mylar , a polyester-based film that takes the place of the brittle acetate — up to that point the only suitable produce for tape recording . |
| 2 | The mixer tap takes the place of the existing bath taps , and can be used either to fill the bath or provide a shower . |
| 3 | Moreover , his system has a reflex result upon the mind of the patient , and a general condition of buoyancy and freedom , and indeed of gaiety of spirit takes the place of the old jaded mental position . |
| 4 | The ‘ technocratic consciousness ’ that takes the place of the old bourgeois ideology is not based on collective repression . |
| 5 | This ruler takes the place of the old fashioned feet and inches ruler . |
| 6 | The amended motion takes the place of the original motion and becomes the substantive motion . |
| 7 | The socket takes the place of the recessed connection box in the wall , and allows the fitting to be removed or replaced easily . |
| 8 | Thus the Rocko-Vario outfit ca n't take the place of the individual screwdrivers . |
| 9 | The district wide erm development plan will take the place of the individual town development plans . |
| 10 | On the provincial commissions the provincial governor or his deputy would take the place of the Interior Ministry official . |
| 11 | As in the past , a collection is to be taken up for the Ecclesiastical Students Fund , and this will take the place of the regular second collection . |
| 12 | Family , friends and grandchildren must take the place of the employing organizations that for many years conferred identity , values and status . |
| 13 | They are also building a school — this will take the place of the two large mango trees that currently serve the purpose . |
| 14 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 15 | Since no self-respecting modern cookbook leaves herbs out of its recipes , since courses in herbal medicine are springing up all over the place , and since cosmetics which rely on plants are taking the place of the synthetic beauty treatments what , one might ask , is a herb ? |
| 16 | The NIBA are going for their fourth successive Under 25 title since the championship took the place of the meaningless Junior Championship in 1990 , and it will be a very hard mission for the PGL to upset the talented Parks side which has tremendous strength in depth . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , there was in the mid-nineteenth century a sufficiently large reservoir of the older type of economically independent petty commodity producer or seller , and even of the skilled worker and foreman ( who still often took the place of the modern technological cadre ) , for the dividing-line to be hazy : some would prosper and , at least in their localities , become accepted bourgeois . |
| 18 | The slight upwards twist he gave to the bottle took the place of the wry smile he would never allow himself to give . |
| 19 | The grey had taken the place of the red bricks and as you can look out now , you can see them . |
| 20 | Then the kitchen ; and the small scullery , bathroom , and lavatory , which had taken the place of the older , larger scullery . |
| 21 | A. M. Fairbairn complained that the clergy had become ‘ more professional than social ’ and the Baptist C. F. Aked attacked ‘ the funny little assistant priest , who has taken the place of the old-fashioned curate ’ , the man who says |
| 22 | They may , perhaps , legitimately be so viewed when sexual satisfaction becomes totally dependent upon them to a point at which they take the place of the interpersonal psycho-genital stimuli to which most of us are subject ; or , as in one or two instances , when they are so grossly in departure from presently accepted norms that no correlation of them with accepted stimuli and practices is possible . |
| 23 | Our kings and emperors , who take the place of the almighty ruler in this world , are set above all other pastors ; and it is entirely incongruous that those whom Christ , mindful of his flock , has constituted princes of this earth [ i.e. bishops ] , should be under the dominion of any but those who excel all mortals by the blessing of God and the glory of their crown . |
| 24 | But look at the new companies which take the place of the old order , says Mr Chandler : almost all have followed the first-mover formula and grown big . |
| 25 | In accordance with your instructions of the 11th August , plans have been prepared and are herewith submitted for your consideration of a Lift or Slide to take the place of the 10 Locks that now serve as the means for passing the Traffic at Foxton Locks . |
| 26 | Writing off the gaps on the map will not involve evictions on the scale of Poletown , but then nothing is coming to take the place of the bulldozed blocks ; and sealing one neighbourhood 's coffin might lead to the decline of the other neighbourhoods around it . |
| 27 | The 1980s suggested that new scarecrow-targets were being constructed to take the place of the Soviet Union . |
| 28 | The report called for a major debate each year on this White Paper and recommended the creation of a new public Expenditure Select Committee to take the place of the former Estimates Committee . |
| 29 | It is in fact directed against the protesters ' own parents — especially the father — and is intended to take the place of the infantile and adolescent reproaches and criticisms of the parental authority which have now come to be directed at each and any cultural equivalent of the father . |
| 30 | The kapu system of priestly prohibitions and sanctions had finally disintegrated in 1819 , but new taboos rushed in to take the place of the old . |