Example sentences of "place [prep] [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not at all the sort of place for little Ellie Browne . |
| 2 | Carlos Rivera Aceves of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) was elected by the Jalisco state legislature on May 1 to be interim state Governor in place of disgraced PRI hardliner Guillermo Cosio Vidaurri . |
| 3 | The theme of the conference was ‘ Museums : Rethinking the Boundaries ’ , and Russian Culture Minister Nicolai Gubenko gave the keynote , in English , in place of no-show Vaclav Havel . |
| 4 | Coventry could recall Robert Rosario in place of on-loan West Brom striker Paul Williams . |
| 5 | Roberto Mancini , playing in place of injured Juventus striker Roberto Baggio , was the man who made the party go with a swing for the Italians . |
| 6 | On Sept. 17 the politburo of the ruling Kampuchean People 's Revolutionary Party ( KPRP ) appointed Hor Nam Hong , hitherto Minister Assistant in charge of monitoring Foreign and Judicial Affairs , as Foreign Minister of the SOC in place of Premier Hun Sen [ see p. 37655 for August government and party appointments ] . |
| 7 | At a federal congress on May 28-31 in Bremen 97.4 per cent of delegates voted in favour of the election of Björn Engholm , 51 , as chair of the SPD in place of Hans-Jochen Vogel , 65 , who was retiring after four years ( but would remain chair of the SPD faction in the Bundestag . |
| 8 | The 18-year-old midfielder is in line for his Cup debut in place of Cup-tied Craig Hignett . |
| 9 | Gonzalo Martii Granizo in place of Rear Adml. |
| 10 | Carlos Vila in place of Rear Adml. |
| 11 | On March 11 US President Bush named Daniel Goldin as the new head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) in place of Rear Adml. |
| 12 | Only four minutes had elapsed when Paul Stewart , used in an emergency striker 's role in place of Israeli Ronny Rosenthal , was chopped from behind by Eric Young — the kind of treatment that enraged Souness . |
| 13 | Already cable television companies have installed their telephones in place of British Telecom 's in more than two hundred thousand homes . |
| 14 | Abdul Rahman Mahmoud Hamdi , a banker and leading member of the National Islamic Front ( NIF ) , became Finance Minister in place of Sayed Ali Zaki , who had enjoyed close contacts with the World Bank and IMF . |
| 15 | He would of course require a pastoral call even if he did not — and his car did not bode well — look like the kind of man Peter might hope for , as a breath of fresh air on the PCC ; as a possible churchwarden in place of old Sir Francis Mayhew who said he 'd done fifteen years which was more than enough ; or even as a parishioner willing to raise the £25,000 that the diocesan architect had said would have to be spent on Loxford church roof within the next three years . |
| 16 | A CPSU central committee plenum opened on July 25 to discuss a draft new party programme , adopting socialist democracy in place of orthodox Marxism-Leninism . |
| 17 | After all , if you leave a place like Old Trafford , surely the only way is down ? |
| 18 | Due to the greater degree of nationalisation which had taken place throughout Western Europe since the end of the war , it was discovered , in 1960 , that approximately forty per cent of the labour force was employed by the various governments . |
| 19 | Across the Channel great changes were taking place in Western Europe . |
| 20 | As to what should take , or was taking , its place in Western Europe , Hallstein seemed to be in no doubt : it was the EEC and its Commission . |
| 21 | But Romania 's official press has reported extensively on the ethnic unrest across the border , while , for example , failing to report on the radical reform and street demonstrations taking place in other Warsaw Pact countries . |
| 22 | Similar incidents also took place in other Saxony towns and in western Germany at the end of September , and there were numerous arrests and injuries . |
| 23 | The fourth stage was planned to take place in late March and will show what our position is after we have been off the air for some time . |
| 24 | An Extraordinary General Meeting will take place in late April or early May , and should sufficient agreement be forthcoming , there would be included a clause that no further reconstruction plans be permitted for five years . |
| 25 | Intense Kurdish guerrilla activity in Kurdistan appeared to take place in late September and October 1989 , during which time the Kurdish Democratic Party of Iran ( KDPI ) claimed that its fighters had killed 172 Iranian troops and Revolutionary Guards in and around the city of Mahabad approximately 550 km west of Tehran . |
| 26 | This takes place in late November and on two separate evenings we fill our largest lecture theatre with local school children from both sides of the county , sometimes a little bit further afield , and that means that we 're giving them an illustrated lecture by one of our more distinguished colleagues , and we entertain and inform , I think , something like eight hundred school children every year in that alone . |
| 27 | In June 1992 the company had an informal pre-assessment and the final assessment took place in early October 1992 . |
| 28 | A series of arrests and arms discoveries took place in early December 1989 as a result of information provided by Francesco Marino Mannoia , a convict serving an eight-year sentence for drug trafficking . |
| 29 | The move took place in early December and we settled in so quickly that it is difficult to believe we have been in our new offices for less than a year . |
| 30 | The next meeting between the two sides was expected to take place in early May . |