Example sentences of "place [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His great vision was for a reformed English Church to take its place in an international General Council of the protestant countries . |
| 32 | They do not fluctuate all over the place in an uncertain fashion . |
| 33 | This attribute has a place in an adverse stereotype of the woman that was promoted by a medieval tradition of antifeminist writing . |
| 34 | No members of the 4th or 5th generations are yet affected , though males and females of the 4th generation have now reached adulthood and will soon reach the youngest age at which the first operation took place in an affected family member . |
| 35 | This can be done only if gas exchange takes place in an internal lung , to which air flow can be controlled . |
| 36 | Extra financial resources might also be needed in the short term to establish a workable transfer system , though in the longer term a fast transfer system could work out far cheaper than the existing system : a Special Hospital or Regional Secure Unit place costs double that of a place in an ordinary mental health unit and quadruple the cost of a hostel place . |
| 37 | If you live in Oxford , in the City area of Oxford , you have a far higher chance of getting a home help , getting a place in an elderly person 's home , getting a meals on wheels , than anywhere else in the county , and between the different areas of the county there are vast differences in that . |
| 38 | The money for the building which is based on a Kgotla , a meeting place in an African village has come from donations from across the world . |
| 39 | This is the ability of a person to talk about his or her actions , reasons for these , and their place in an ongoing flow of social life . |
| 40 | Described as a ‘ revisionist enterprise at several levels ’ , the exhibition aims to examine Lam 's work in the context of ‘ Cuban cultural nationalism ’ , concentrating on Lam 's place in an Afro-Cuban tradition . |
| 41 | Few people noticed the event as it took place in an uninhabited part of Kamchatcka and caused no known casualties . |
| 42 | O'Leary takes his place in an unchanged London side at the Stoop Memorial Ground in the final round of the Championship . |
| 43 | When life brings them into touch again twenty years later , and they are hopelessly in love , a climactic scene takes place in an inferior tea-shop which they visit during a furtive day together in London . |
| 44 | The other two were small fish , Jack Elam and Neville Brand , but they could have argued over first and second place in an Ugly Contest . |
| 45 | Neither invention nor innovation and translation by design can take place in an inflexible or chaotic environment ; nor can they take place if flexible design procedures for capitalizing on new market conditions are lacking . |
| 46 | If you think about it , Rocastle is as good as Batty and he scores goals too , so Batts should be concerned for his place in an ideal world given his 3 goal career tally . |
| 47 | The Mail had a regular page for women which would not be out of place in an English daily , where it may well have originated : |
| 48 | ‘ Out of place in an English garden . ’ |
| 49 | The troubles at York and Scarborough , already mentioned , took place in an urban environment , and very conspicuous in the troubles was the city of London . |
| 50 | Personal reminiscences and anecdotes have no place in an academic essay . |
| 51 | Avoid slang , jargon and colloquial expressions that might be perfectly acceptable in speech but that are out of place in an academic essay . |
| 52 | Prior to 1974 these various activities took place in an uncoordinated manner , but , since then , budget committees have been set up in both houses . |
| 53 | In indirect life cycles , the first two moults usually take place in an intermediate host and infection of the final host is either by ingestion of the intermediate host or by inoculation of the L3 when the intermediate host , such as a blood sucking insect , feeds . |
| 54 | For example , railways , children , substances ( such as gold ) , ethnic groups , computers or rabbits may all have more than one place in an enumerative discipline-based classification scheme . |
| 55 | An ensign , however , might find the next step a little harder , while command of a company was rarely to be had without the ability to purchase the commission of a holder of a captaincy or very strong political interest to secure the place in an expanding army in a new battalion . |
| 56 | All this was taking place in an empty space at the end of the world . |
| 57 | In rejecting a discontinuance order on a scrap metal business in an ‘ attractive residential area ’ , for instance , the minister said : ‘ the fact that such a business is out of place in an attractive residential area must be weighed in the light of an important distinction between the withdrawal of existing use rights , as sought in the discontinuance order , and the refusal of new rights ’ . |
| 58 | At the same time , existential uniqueness , as was shown earlier on , can not be defined in terms of place in an objective space ; rather the concept of place in an objective space presupposes the idea of existential uniqueness . |
| 59 | At the same time , existential uniqueness , as was shown earlier on , can not be defined in terms of place in an objective space ; rather the concept of place in an objective space presupposes the idea of existential uniqueness . |
| 60 | Conversely , when a war was being concluded and there was a prospect of reductions in the size of the army , many officers of the younger regiments attempted to avoid reduction to half-pay by trying their interest with a politician , but the practice of transferring to a new regiment to accelerate promotion , and then regaining a place in an old one while retaining the rank already gained , demanded very good political connections . |