Example sentences of "place of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Writing off the gaps on the map will not involve evictions on the scale of Poletown , but then nothing is coming to take the place of the bulldozed blocks ; and sealing one neighbourhood 's coffin might lead to the decline of the other neighbourhoods around it . |
| 32 | The mixer tap takes the place of the existing bath taps , and can be used either to fill the bath or provide a shower . |
| 33 | However , within the single language LISP , access could , with appropriate effort , be made to the translation of GO-SHOPPING(x) as a sequence beginning WALK(x) , but the subsequent access from WALK(x) to the yet lower-level sequence beginning LIFT-RIGHT-LEG(x) is far more dubious , whatever the effort required , since that would normally have been compiled and so be inaccessible to the higher level in question , even though , as we saw , one can , in the human case , impose a new translation of WALK , in the place of the existing one . |
| 34 | It is a fundamental principle of the Bill that it would enable the impoundment of a fresh water lake in place of the existing salt water tidal area . |
| 35 | These involved the introduction of a number of nominated rather than elected MPs , and the creation of an executive presidency in place of the existing ceremonial one . |
| 36 | In place of the major role which workers were demanding in running the factories , Lenin presided over the centralization of economic power and the establishment of managerial structures divorced from the rank and file . |
| 37 | He successfully reformed the service on the Continent , setting up fixed and regular posts for the speeding on of the portmantle or packet , in place of the irregular messengers and carriers who had travelled the whole distance . |
| 38 | Family , friends and grandchildren must take the place of the employing organizations that for many years conferred identity , values and status . |
| 39 | This is given in place of the ordinary single or married allowance , and is called ‘ Age Allowance ’ . |
| 40 | For such critics Hardy traced an essential parallel with the irregularity of Gothic architecture in which he had been trained , and noted ‘ There is latent music in the sincere utterance of deep emotion , however expressed , which fills the place of the actual word-music in rhythmic phraseology on thinner emotive subjects , or on subjects with next to none at all . ’ |
| 41 | Before examining the place of the middle class as a whole in the class structure , the main strata of the middle class will be examined in detail . |
| 42 | No such ambivalent feelings characterised the firm belief — sanctioned by Victorian science and medicine — that the place of the middle class woman was in the home . |
| 43 | Second , it is God himself who not only speaks but also hears that ‘ No ’ in the person of the one man who does not deserve to hear it , the righteous one who stands in the place of the unrighteous . |
| 44 | In normal circumstances , when an unlawful sentence is passed by the Crown Court the Court of Appeal can treat the sentence as a nullity and impose a lawful sentence in place of the unlawful sentence passed by the Crown Court ( see for instance Hollywood ( 1990 ) 12 Cr.App.R . |
| 45 | As a young man he had a prophetic revelation that led him to preach a new faith in place of the prevailing polytheism . |
| 46 | For instance , large segments of DNA can be successfully cloned in place of the early region 1 genes of replication deficient adenovirus . |
| 47 | The coin-slot fruit machines of the amusement arcades may be joined nowadays by sophisticated video-games and the age of the gambler may progressively decrease but the addictive disease remains the same just as when the younger generation sometimes turns to solvents in place of the addictive use of alcohol or tranquillisers in their parents . |
| 48 | In place of the easy verities of a year and a half ago , America now has to cope with a Europe — both east and west — in a state of flux . |
| 49 | In place of the nineteenth-century sense of a succession of literary historical " periods " , scholars have now revealed a continuum of " interlocking elements " making it clear that in all times the " spirit of literature " is one . |
| 50 | The main purpose of the meeting was to persuade Aristide to endorse René Théodore , leader of the National Reconciliation Movement ( MRN ) and secretary-general of the Unified Party of Haitian Communists ( PUCH ) , as compromise Prime Minister in place of the transitional Prime Minster Jean Jacques Honorat . |
| 51 | Virtually all of the spoken text is omitted , and in place of the burnished mezzo of Martha Senn , Josep Pons has engaged a cataora , a flamenco singer , who again brings a raucous , primitive edge to the music . |
| 52 | Our kings and emperors , who take the place of the almighty ruler in this world , are set above all other pastors ; and it is entirely incongruous that those whom Christ , mindful of his flock , has constituted princes of this earth [ i.e. bishops ] , should be under the dominion of any but those who excel all mortals by the blessing of God and the glory of their crown . |
| 53 | They may , perhaps , legitimately be so viewed when sexual satisfaction becomes totally dependent upon them to a point at which they take the place of the interpersonal psycho-genital stimuli to which most of us are subject ; or , as in one or two instances , when they are so grossly in departure from presently accepted norms that no correlation of them with accepted stimuli and practices is possible . |
| 54 | But the drive to increase sales and to provide more entertaining material in a different form — both products of the commercialization of the newspaper — directly challenged the place of the political speech and the political leader in the newspaper of the late 19th century . |
| 55 | On the provincial commissions the provincial governor or his deputy would take the place of the Interior Ministry official . |
| 56 | Above the altar , however , in place of the religious painting in Dubois 's house , was a chillingly small human skull . |
| 57 | PELYNT CHURCH — Last resting place of the famous and infamous |
| 58 | The hiding place of the famous 2nd World War diarist , eventually deported by the Germans . |
| 59 | The shift among painters and sculptors , who had been in the craft guilds , is most clearly marked in the adoption of the term ‘ academy ’ from the place of the famous school of Plato . |
| 60 | In place of the controlled administration of a " treatment " , survey analysts have to ensure that individuals with different experiences or attitudes or characteristics are represented in the sample by stratification , or similar , procedures . |