Example sentences of "[art] place [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Beamish prodded the place with a stubby forefinger . |
| 2 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 3 | All he saw was the ghost of the waterfall : ‘ we visited the place at an unseasonable time , and found it divested of its dignity and terror . ’ |
| 4 | It is likely that such a move would then secure Athey the place on the unrestricted List Two that he wants . |
| 5 | She pointed to the place on the open page of the book . |
| 6 | There were things sticking out all over the place on the Albini recordings but we came away with a sound we liked , ’ says the bass player . |
| 7 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 8 | My guess is that your vendor was scared that if she waited much longer it would be impossible to sell the place as a going concern and she would lose out completely on fittings and goodwill . |
| 9 | Hodads from Honolulu still think of the place as the Wild West and venture up the H-2 to stare at surfers as if they were herds of buffalo grazing on the sea . |
| 10 | I thought of the place as an imaginary island , a sort of French Never Never Land . |
| 11 | ‘ My dear Tom spoke of the place as an undeveloped shambles with Matt living there alone , although I 've now heard that he and Silas accommodate a few guests . |
| 12 | But the Commission believes that no radio or television presenter can adequately take the place of a live teacher , and that no school should depend almost wholly on a centralised choice of music , particularly of hymns or songs . |
| 13 | These indications of the importance of small firm production and the extent of subcontracting make it vital to recognize the place of a differentiated structure of production in assessing the causes of Japan 's rapid economic growth . |
| 14 | This took the place of a pre-release course ( which would be impossible to plan in an institution where some men were so far away from release and others might be released on parole licence at very short notice ) but it covered many of the same topics . |
| 15 | In later years a boy may continue to look unconsciously for a mother with whom to relate , or a girl for a father to take the place of a loved parent or compensate for a lack of satisfaction in that direction . |
| 16 | Each chapter would show the place of a particular form of policy response , or independent activity , in the scheme of things ; it would comment on experience to date and record new initiatives . |
| 17 | What would be the place of a united Germany in relation to the cold war alliances ? ; |
| 18 | The mixer tap takes the place of the existing bath taps , and can be used either to fill the bath or provide a shower . |
| 19 | However , within the single language LISP , access could , with appropriate effort , be made to the translation of GO-SHOPPING(x) as a sequence beginning WALK(x) , but the subsequent access from WALK(x) to the yet lower-level sequence beginning LIFT-RIGHT-LEG(x) is far more dubious , whatever the effort required , since that would normally have been compiled and so be inaccessible to the higher level in question , even though , as we saw , one can , in the human case , impose a new translation of WALK , in the place of the existing one . |
| 20 | Formally , there is little ambiguity about the mechanism of policy and the place of the Armed Forces in it . |
| 21 | Gauguin 's chair , an ample , armed chair , was painted in the dark against a lamplit green wall " in dark brown-red wood , the seat of greenish rush , and in the place of the absent a lighted candle and two modern novels " . |
| 22 | The 1980s suggested that new scarecrow-targets were being constructed to take the place of the Soviet Union . |
| 23 | But the drive to increase sales and to provide more entertaining material in a different form — both products of the commercialization of the newspaper — directly challenged the place of the political speech and the political leader in the newspaper of the late 19th century . |
| 24 | Having discussed the place of the professional-managerial class in the stratification system , the Ehrenreichs go on to consider the role that it has played in class conflict in the USA over recent decades . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In Brown the Supreme Court argued about which scheme of justice was presupposed by the structure of the Constitution , about the place of the equal protection clause in that scheme , about the true impact of that clause on the legal power of Kansas to legislate a school system , even though each justice knew that none of this was settled by convention . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |