Example sentences of "[vb pp] a place in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as £2,000 , and a trophy presented by the Duchess of Kent , he has won a place in the Eurovision Young Musician of the Year heats in Brussels in June . |
| 2 | Wells done BOWLS : John Wells , of Hartlepool , has won a place in the prestigious under-25s national indoor bowls championships to be held at Nottingham on February 22–23 . |
| 3 | Among those who received awards yesterday was Claire Metcalfe , 15 , of Thornaby , who has been practicing judo since she was five and has now won a place in the national team . |
| 4 | Keith Bailey , 18 , from Oxton , Birkenhead , has won a place in the national final of the Rotary Club Inventor of the Year competition at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre on November 14 . |
| 5 | After all , when he starred as champion boxer Jake La Motta in Raging Bull , he put on 60lbs and is reputed to have done enough training to have earned a place in the top twenty world middleweight rankings . |
| 6 | What started as ‘ just a bit of fun ’ has now earned a place in the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 7 | REBECCA FOSTER , from Southport , has claimed a place in the Volkswagen National Division Five Tennis final at Telford . |
| 8 | Henry Hyndman , Karl Marx 's first English translator , narrowly missed a place in the Cambridge XI , and some accounts credit disappointment at this exclusion for his subsequent loathing of the ruling class . |
| 9 | Carrara , for his part , had secured a place in the final by virtue of a rather one-sided 6–0 6–3 victory over Frome 's Chris Davis . |
| 10 | There are examples of people who , through the strength of their commitments and the power of their attention to detail , have secured a place in the policy-making process . |
| 11 | Advertising has always had a place in the newspaper ; some of the earliest newspapers were essentially means for communicating notices of events , such as the arrival of ships . |
| 12 | Applicants for Entrance Bursaries who are not offered a Bursary but who achieve the standard necessary for entry will be offered a place in the School . |
| 13 | ON THE DAY of the Conservative manifesto launch last month Mrs Gillian Shephard was given a place in the parade of Cabinet Ministers . |
| 14 | When JTR returned to the Boathouse that night he ‘ had walked thirty-five miles , and had given a place in the sketchbook to eight subjects . ’ |
| 15 | The foregoing chapter has described the manner in which the Created God can be given a place in the minds of human beings as a feasible entity capable of a spiritual kind of existence . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , despite the necessity to protect children from being misled by the stories of ‘ heaven ’ and miracles , it should be made quite clear to them that most of the stories of good works attributed to the people involved are most likely to be true , and as these people are believed to have done much more good than most , they have been given a place in the windows of the churches and in paintings and elsewhere . |
| 17 | Young Malcolm Smith was provisionally given a place in the final but had to settle for 10th place after some deliberation . |
| 18 | What I want , returning to my analogy , is for the surgeon 's view to be given a place in the scheme of research alongside the epidemiologist 's . |
| 19 | Anne Gibson , who earlier this month won her fifth successive Scottish women 's singles title , is the only Scot to be given a place in the main draw for next month 's All England Championships at Wembley . |
| 20 | Lineker became incensed when Taylor went public , not only questioning whether Lineker should remain as captain , but whether his form justified a place in the side — even though he was maintaining his phenomenal strike rate . |
| 21 | Traditionally members of the Southern ( now Beazer Homes ) League , they were allotted a place in the Vauxhall League , which they head by two points , and Gould takes a healthy smattering of former Northampton players back tomorrow . |
| 22 | Traditionally members of the Southern ( now Beazer Homes ) League , they were allotted a place in the Vauxhall League , which they head by two points , and Gould takes a healthy smattering of former Northampton players back tomorrow . |
| 23 | ‘ I think I 've found a place in the country . ’ |
| 24 | Long before then , however , the rose had already found a place in the heart of man . |
| 25 | While water certainly found a place in the past in the landscapes of famous gardeners like Capability Brown , this was scarcely water gardening as we know it today . |
| 26 | And as far as Greg could judge there were a great many writers who had found a place in the book who were quite as obscure or more so — poets whose flame had died with the end of the war , one-off playwrights whose experimental verse dramas had caused no more than a ripple of interest even in their own time . |
| 27 | The reformist dimension heralded at Bayeux immediately found a place in the RPF . |
| 28 | The arts will have a higher profile in the fourth Conservative term , with David Mellor heading a much enlarged department ( which for the first time is allocated a place in the Cabinet ) , flanked by one junior Minister , Robert Key . |
| 29 | SCOTLAND 'S Colin Montgomerie has gained a place in the World Championship of Golf in Jamaica next month as replacement for American John Cook . |
| 30 | He might have gained a place in the ASB in any case as a representative of the protestant Reformation . |