Example sentences of "a [adj] place in " in BNC.
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| 1 | to all they meet , thus making it a friendly place in which to live . |
| 2 | And with a possible place in Europe at stake , to say nothing about the title , even the slightest mistake in the closing stages could be costly . |
| 3 | As always each team , a mix of GBP members and celebrities , chases points in the battle to win a luxury weekend break prize and a possible place in the grand final . |
| 4 | Add to this the imperfection of scientific knowledge , and it would then take a low place in the stratification of priorities . |
| 5 | It has an impressive enrolment count and a strong place in the local community . |
| 6 | A 4-1 defeat was marginally better than the 5-1 setback on Tuesday against the side who will be England 's key rivals for a semi-final place in their World Cup group in February . |
| 7 | However , Minton 's most appreciative critic on this occasion was the Marxist John Berger : ‘ One senses Jamaica as a definite place in these pictures — the alternating dryness and dampness of the vegetation , the nights of unreal moonlight , the false animation of the people in the wooden cafés beneath Coca Cola advertisements and naked light bulbs . |
| 8 | He wanted footballers to have a respectable place in society , breaking away from their traditional cloth-cap image , and expected his own players to adopt respectable standards of dress and behaviour . |
| 9 | It is a lively place in the evening too . |
| 10 | The Ben is quite a different place in winter , equally as magnificent , but free from Pac-o-macs , folding aluminium chairs , and people who want to know who Benjamin Nevis was and why the mountain is named after him . |
| 11 | But the top is bounded in a different place in every different table , depending on the marginal distribution of the two variables . |
| 12 | These specially created ideologies more often than not give the believer a clear place in the scheme of things , by providing a definite identity . |
| 13 | Once Eric was in the car they had driven towards Soragna , then by a roundabout route to a big plantation of poplars near the right bank of the Po , where they had directed him to a well-hidden place in the middle . |
| 14 | Lubavitch occupies a peculiar place in the Jewish world . |
| 15 | Whibley 's effectiveness can be measured by the fact that he retained his position on the Palace flank while assisting us from Southern League also-rans to 3rd Division champions , and to a dignified place in Division Two . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ In reality , the royal women have a second-class place in the Royal Family , and no one more so than the Princess of Wales . ’ |
| 17 | The depot and its locomotives have a high place in the Southern enthusiasts ' hearts and Boocock has brought together a collection of pictures that illustrated the life in and around the depot as well as its varied locomotive stud out and about on the system 's metals . |
| 18 | Why should you not take a high place in the home of your ancestors ? ’ |
| 19 | Harman ) , I congratulate my hon. Friend the Member for Chislehurst ( Mr. Sims ) on his good fortune in winning a high place in the ballot . |
| 20 | It would have been a sensible place in which to have encountered a loving creator , but it was a wretched spot for a pale and spindly child to fall victim to the predatory hunger of an Italian prisoner of war with a tobacco tin filled with metal rings made in the camp workshop three miles away across the woods . |
| 21 | The techniques we have looked at are more effective with some types of material than others and we want materials that can take a sensible place in our scheme of work . |
| 22 | I was conscious that here I belonged to a community with roots in the distant past and a distinguished place in British history . |
| 23 | But London 's river is also policed by a special force of River Police , expert rivermen , who have a distinguished place in the history of the Thames . |
| 24 | Dangerfield has earned itself a distinguished place in the history of British textile production . |
| 25 | ’ ( ‘ Outside ’ was quite a sumptuous place in its little way ; a good walk from the house , along a winding path between yew and box trees and down some artistically rounded white steps , to a trellised porch with chequered black and red tiled floor , where an escort might wait on a dark night . |
| 26 | When I was a child there was a damp place in the long meadow where there used to be a lovely yellow flower we call butterballs , and children would bring them for the teacher . |
| 27 | My father 's never sworn at my mother in a public place in his life . |
| 28 | Or again as Jevons says ‘ Originally a market was a public place in a town where provisions and other objects were exposed for sale ; but the word has been generalized , so as to mean any body of persons who are in intimate business relations and carry on extensive transactions in any commodity . |
| 29 | Now picture a beautiful scene in brilliant sunshine — you might choose to visualise somewhere you know or to create a perfect place in your imagination . |
| 30 | Advertising has a distinct place in the marketing of personal injury work . |