Example sentences of "[prep] place in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite this , his marks were high enough to win him a sought after place in the Indian Army . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When , therefore , anything is out of place in a picturesque point of view , it excites his criticism , notwithstanding its utility in other respects . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 ? ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Company skills are out of place in a spiritual environment |
| 12 | I ca n't think of one shot I 've taken that would be out of place in a family album . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Therefore poetry on its own is out of place in a libretto . |
| 15 | A piece of ham has been given pride of place in a butcher 's window . |
| 16 | When it 's finished it 'll take pride of place in a new aircraft museum to be opened in Gloucestershire . |
| 17 | A Tudor Doll 's House takes pride of place in a fine collection of houses and period dolls . |
| 18 | The Mail had a regular page for women which would not be out of place in an English daily , where it may well have originated : |
| 19 | Avoid slang , jargon and colloquial expressions that might be perfectly acceptable in speech but that are out of place in an academic essay . |
| 20 | At the same time , existential uniqueness , as was shown earlier on , can not be defined in terms of place in an objective space ; rather the concept of place in an objective space presupposes the idea of existential uniqueness . |
| 21 | At the same time , existential uniqueness , as was shown earlier on , can not be defined in terms of place in an objective space ; rather the concept of place in an objective space presupposes the idea of existential uniqueness . |
| 22 | ‘ Out of place in an English garden . ’ |
| 23 | And the many short definitions for minerals seem out of place in an encyclopaedia ( I prefer my American Geological Institute glossary , in which I can find ‘ burkeite ’ ) . |
| 24 | In rejecting a discontinuance order on a scrap metal business in an ‘ attractive residential area ’ , for instance , the minister said : ‘ the fact that such a business is out of place in an attractive residential area must be weighed in the light of an important distinction between the withdrawal of existing use rights , as sought in the discontinuance order , and the refusal of new rights ’ . |
| 25 | Rather more controversial would be deciding which tournament should take pride of place in the European clay court season leading into Paris . |
| 26 | Later there were bands like The Vibrators , The Stranglers and The Hammersmith Gorillas , horrors one and all , but pride of place in the pub rock pantheon went to Wilko Johnson 's Dr Feelgood and the wonderfully esoteric Kilburn And The High Roads , featuring Ian Dury and kitted out courtesy of Let It Rock . |
| 27 | If Allison 's style was a little out of place in the sober , earnest world of Reith 's BBC in the 1920s , sport itself proved an immediate success at the Corporation . |
| 28 | He has since painted Prince William 's christening and Prince Charles himself , and the portraits all hang in pride of place in the privacy of Kensington Palace and Highgrove . |
| 29 | It is , or more correctly , was the most important antiquity to have been found in Austria and has pride of place in the Kunst Historiche Museum in Vienna . |
| 30 | It 's not even got anything to do with his hedge-trimmer pageboy cut or his Oxfam dress sense , which would n't look out of place in the background of an Inspiral Carpets video . |