Example sentences of "the place [prep] the old " in BNC.
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| 1 | But look at the new companies which take the place of the old order , says Mr Chandler : almost all have followed the first-mover formula and grown big . |
| 2 | The kapu system of priestly prohibitions and sanctions had finally disintegrated in 1819 , but new taboos rushed in to take the place of the old . |
| 3 | Moreover , his system has a reflex result upon the mind of the patient , and a general condition of buoyancy and freedom , and indeed of gaiety of spirit takes the place of the old jaded mental position . |
| 4 | The ‘ technocratic consciousness ’ that takes the place of the old bourgeois ideology is not based on collective repression . |
| 5 | This ruler takes the place of the old fashioned feet and inches ruler . |