Example sentences of "[prep] place in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor is the final planned dispensation of eggs out of place in a ‘ basic ritual scheme in which ‘ the cooking and eating of a Feast ’ are ‘ canonical ’ , part of a ‘ sacramental meal … through which the God passes to his resurrection ’ . |
| 2 | Some people complained that the realistic sobbing of the Beast , slumped on the ground at the ballet 's opening and again when Beauty hurls the rose back at him , was out of place in a ballet , but it conveyed the point without needing any artificial mime — something he always tried to get away from , wanting anyone to be able to understand his work without needing to learn the conventions first . |
| 3 | The ruins of the Cistercian Furness Abbey might seem , at first sight , out of place in a book of this kind , but in fact this was a medieval power-house of immense activity . |
| 4 | When , therefore , anything is out of place in a picturesque point of view , it excites his criticism , notwithstanding its utility in other respects . ’ |
| 5 | It is a slightly adolescent , indulgent account of a love affair — adolescent because it is redolent of a wide-eyed naivety out of place in a middle-aged man : indulgent because at times he hints that the eagles , with names like Atalanta and Melanion , may be reciprocating his feelings . |
| 6 | The wild , rhythmic drive of the first subject owes much to Shostakovich , yet the second subject would not sound out of place in a Star Trek film score , and its pseudo-oriental counter-theme is pure Hollywood . |
| 7 | I had sold the contents of the cottages to the incoming purchaser , as well as several large pieces from the melin which would have been quite out of place in a modern house . |
| 8 | ‘ I think you can dispense with the formalities , Letty , curtsying would look out of place in a few rooms in a lodging house , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 9 | Some of the dry goods are housed here , but to find a host of Koi-related decorative items you enter a building that would not look out of place in a Japanese tea garden . |
| 10 | Company skills are out of place in a spiritual environment |
| 11 | I ca n't think of one shot I 've taken that would be out of place in a family album . |
| 12 | At the end of 1862 Chicherin gave his letter to Herzen a wider currency by assigning it pride of place in a book of essays on the principal political questions of the day . |
| 13 | Therefore poetry on its own is out of place in a libretto . |
| 14 | A piece of ham has been given pride of place in a butcher 's window . |
| 15 | When it 's finished it 'll take pride of place in a new aircraft museum to be opened in Gloucestershire . |
| 16 | A Tudor Doll 's House takes pride of place in a fine collection of houses and period dolls . |
| 17 | Above all , what needs to be explained is how we distinguish between places in a phenomenological space and places in an objective space . |
| 18 | The extra sappers were in place in a week , and the big hooped bombards and mortars , repositioned , were firing their three-hundred pounders as frequently as bombards were ever able to do , with a hundred balls beside each to do it with . |
| 19 | DEC also subcontracted the London-based software house Transvik Ltd which had previously developed the software for the Nordex exchange in the City of London ; it was its foundation on the pound sterling that caused the failure of the bond transaction , but contrary to local press reports , the system did not crash and an update to overcome the problem should be in place in a few weeks time . |