Example sentences of "place [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The King died on the 18th March and the burial took place eleven days later on the 29th March . ’ |
| 2 | And at the same time , and slightly in contradiction to that , I found it increasing erm , er , perception and indication of dissatisfaction with the way in which the joint er , collaborative structures were actually working , if I may say , especially at the top level in terms of the political erm erm , so I say to you colleagues , that you are required as er , by statute to , to have in place collaborative structures , er , under a statute that goes back to the nineteen seventies , and I should also say to you that up and down the country that authorities like your own are at this stage doing what you 're doing , and that is reviewing the effectiveness of the operation of those structures , and probably coming to much the same conclusions . |
| 3 | Over the past year , the Government have put in place unparalleled mechanisms to keep the environment at the heart of policy making . |
| 4 | Perhaps the strangest ‘ Christmas ’ internee festival of either country or war took place fifty years ago today . |
| 5 | But how I am to get conveyed with my luggage to Maitland neither Stephen or I can devise , three teams of bullocks having left Warra on their way from the plains to this place eight days ago and have not yet arrived . |
| 6 | The Pine Valley experience has helped to relax the normally intense Faldo , who lost a play-off to Curtis Strange in 1988 , finished third in 1990 and occupied fourth place 12 months ago . |
| 7 | Bull has put in place some restrictions on which employees can accept the offer , in order to avoid the risk of losing the youngest and most talented staff , a problem experienced at other manufacturers such as IBM Corp . |
| 8 | Chewing the fat before this meeting in that shit-hole of a place some berks will tiresomely insist on dignifying as a ‘ foyer ’ — frenchified bloody nonsense — a parent quizzed me on my attitude towards the teaching of English . |
| 9 | An operation which he could describe as due to take place some weeks ahead was the second to correct the condition . |
| 10 | All this took place some years ago . |
| 11 | All this took place some years ago . |
| 12 | It might take them some time to find out about Laura , because the interesting part of the story took place some years earlier . |
| 13 | Does he recall the debate that took place some years ago about the deployment of cruise missiles ? |
| 14 | We found the place some days past . |
| 15 | A professional moh lam team travels from place to place entertaining villagers with songs , ballads and drama . |
| 16 | Protocols of accession to GATT were signed by Bolivia on Aug. 4 , 1989 , and by Costa Rica on Nov. 27 , 1989 ; accession ( as the 97th and 98th contracting parties ) was in each case to take place 30 days after ratification by the respective country 's legislature , which had not , however , been completed by the time of the 45th session of the GATT contracting parties held in Geneva , Switzerland , on Dec. 4-5 , 1989 . |
| 17 | This took place 2 weeks later . |
| 18 | Points will be awarded in descending order for duration of survival in the round , to 5th place that is : 1st place 6 points 2nd place 4 points 3rd place 3 points 4th place 2 points 5th place 1 point |
| 19 | She wanted to do this on her own and the therapist suggested that the first session took place 2 days later to assess her progress . |
| 20 | The statement would certainly have no effect on a jury trial taking place six months later , and the court was not convinced that the statement carried the defamatory implication that Crozier was dishonest or incompetent . |
| 21 | The killings took place six months ago in a busy car park . |
| 22 | Toyota , the French car giant 's main rivals in the world championship , took second place six laps behind with Japan 's Masanori Sekiya , France 's PierreHenri Raphanel and Ireland 's Kenny Acheson . |
| 23 | ‘ Had the current changes taken place 10 years ago , many of the kids I coached in townships could have reached the top . |
| 24 | According to Interior Minister Khayreh Alaleh Hared , 68 people had been arrested in the early hours of Jan. 9 , as they were holding an illegal meeting at a local cemetery ; the attack on the barracks had taken place 90 minutes later , and the attackers had escaped , but the two incidents formed part of an attempt to destroy " the sovereignty , existence and unity of Djibouti and its economy " . |
| 25 | You see ogreish smiles all over the place these days , and nobody minds . |
| 26 | ( Incidentally , oranges and nuts seem to have occupied in the social life of those days the place soft drinks and ice cream occupy today , being consumed in great quantities even in the most dignified circles . ) |
| 27 | Clearly it has not been a typical day , even for 5 Airborne Brigade ; yet such operations have taken place seventy-three times since the Second World War . |
| 28 | Alfred 's thoughts were fixed in fact on Beatrice Throgmorton , and the unpleasant scene that had taken place three weeks ago . |
| 29 | Elections of one kind or another are taking place three years out of four : parish , borough , county , European . |
| 30 | A student protest against education loans which took place three years later in central London also ran into trouble . |