Example sentences of "[pron] place [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took up my place a short distance in front of the Officer in Command of the parade . |
| 2 | This reaches to the outer limits of hardcore with Carl Cox 's ‘ Rhythm Is A Drug ’ and the Wizard Of Oz 's ‘ Drowning In Your Blood Mix ’ which cleaned up at the band 's recent Heaven gig ( also backed with an ‘ Ahhhcapella ’ version which had them climbing the walls round at my place the other week ! ) . |
| 3 | In its place a unified system of primary , secondary and further education was set up . |
| 4 | This challenge to ‘ universalism ’ need not pose in its place a simple relativism or a mere piling up of empirical descriptions . |
| 5 | The central poem of her volume , which celebrates the ‘ worthy mind ’ of her patron Margaret , dowager Countess of Cumberland , is remarkable for managing to avoid the identification of female virtue with chastity , articulating in its place a feminine mastery of those dialectical skills which constituted the humanist ideal of masculine virtue . |
| 6 | The results confirmed that anti-Congress feelings in the north had not waned since November 1989 , when northern voters had turned against the central government of Rajiv Gandhi , electing in its place a National Front coalition led by V. P. Singh [ see pp. 37030-31 ] . |
| 7 | At the back of the fort they diverted the Jumna and laid in its place a main road so that the delicate Mughal pavilions look out , not on to the source of the Waters of Paradise , but on to Mahatma Gandhi Marg , the most noisy and polluted stretch of the Delhi Ring Road . |
| 8 | It 's time to haul away from the centre of pop , the humanist body ( Terence Trent , U2 , Simply Red ) and leave in its place a ghostly un-body ( Public Enemy , Throwing Muses , A.R . |
| 9 | Somewhere between the first drink on Christmas Eve ( at around 5pm ) and the first cup of tea on Christmas morning ( at around 5am ) , the fear evaporates , leaving in its place a wonderful feeling of contentment . |
| 10 | In broad daylight , and playing a trumpet fanfare , we ceremoniously lowered the British flag and hoisted in its place the International Flag of Lesbian and Gay Liberation . |
| 11 | In its place the Social Fund removed the right to a grant and instituted instead a system of discretionary loans . |
| 12 | Gone was the lively , glowing girl of the morning , in her place a pasty ghost . |
| 13 | Sultan Mahmud I ( 1730–54 ) attempted to disband the janissaries and to put in their place a modern force , modelled on the standing armies of his European enemies . |
| 14 | Iago systematically inverts all the great positives of dedication and loyalty , offers in their place an unnatural egoism . |
| 15 | Once in power , the armed forces immediately abolished all state institutions and established in their place the non-military State Law and Order Restoration Council ( SLORC ) and a Cabinet , most of whose members were also SLORC members , both of which were headed by Saw Maung . |
| 16 | He was just 76 votes short of the quota in the Oldpark Ward on the first count , but won his place a short time later . |
| 17 | The protests continued and in early April , in an effort to contain the mounting unrest , King Birendra dismissed the Prime Minister , Marich Man Singh Shrestha , and appointed in his place the moderate Lokendra Bahadur Chand . |
| 18 | We made our place the upper glens and moorlands of Scotland in the north where Men could less easily find us . |