Example sentences of "place to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon a lovely glow spreads over all , giving place to deep shadows and a mysterious haze disappearing into the distance into deep blue . ’ |
| 2 | Barlow lost his place to big-money signing Neil Pointon — the man he replaces today because of suspension . |
| 3 | The fromagiers and sellers of glistening fish and plump fruits and vegetables had cleared their stalls from the market hours ago and left the place to scavenging pigeons . |
| 4 | Furthermore , it raises yet again the economic and political implications which too frequently take second place to other matters but which are of the greatest importance for West Belfast . |
| 5 | Eleven months on , Beasant is an outcast and Hitchcock is getting rave reviews in Chelsea 's brilliant run , but now Hitchcock may lose his place to Russian Dmitri Kharin . |
| 6 | Urban communities gave place to rural ones and the Roman influence became attenuated though the language at least did not perish . |
| 7 | It seems safest to conclude that this symbiotic relationship is the norm , but that it takes place to varying degrees according to policy , place and circumstance . |
| 8 | The whole battery site is now earmarked to become a country park or war museum but as yet still remains untouched used now and again for playing war games and a place to stable locally owned horses . |
| 9 | From now on , she told Yeats , romantic passion would be taking second place to political commitment . |
| 10 | There is a taste of the difficulties ahead in the ordering of priorities in the advanced industrial countries : first place goes to economic growth and second place to environmental security . |
| 11 | But this is probably better than some of the attempts that have been made deliberately to exploit the natural human interest in such a tragic event with supposedly factual accounts of the eruption , in which accurate reportage takes second place to lurid , entirely hypothetical detail . |
| 12 | By 1900 the dry air refrigerator had lost its place to chemical machines using CO 2 or ammonia . |
| 13 | Later , in the eastern part of the empire , the basilican plan gave place to Byzantine , Greek cross variations in layout , but in the west — Italy , France , England and Germany — basilicas continued to be built , even till today . |
| 14 | I say surprisingly in the case of Christian feminists because it is so clear to me that women , or the feminine , can never hold an equivalent place to male figures or motifs within what is a deeply masculine religion . |
| 15 | The fact that important elements in the Labour Party were thinking in these terms marked a major shift from the ideals expressed in the party 's 1945 election manifesto , Let Us Face The Future : ‘ [ we shall ] plan from the ground up , giving an appropriate place to constructive enterprise and private endeavour in the national plan ’ . |
| 16 | Ancient oak gave place to modern pine forest on either hand . |
| 17 | David Copperfield had taken second place to Great Expectations . |
| 18 | However , religious identity had taken second place to secular nationalism for a whole generation . |
| 19 | The last straw for Hysen came against Middlesbrough on Saturday when Limpar , who lost his place to 20-year-old Mark Flatts , was not even on the substitutes ' bench . |
| 20 | Some small instrumented areas have been selected as representative of particular conditions whereas others were experimental , in which change due to logging or other forms of land use change could be monitored either by change in one basin or by comparison of several areas in which changes were taking place to differing degrees . |
| 21 | By allotting such a major place to ideological practice , Althusser supposes that people must somehow be cajoled , duped or persuaded into roles which do not reflect their true interests . |
| 22 | The rocks gave place to tufted waste grass and bushes ; he was down , and with nothing but a graze or two to show for it . |
| 23 | Theory and criticism should not take second place to imaginative writing ’ … |
| 24 | But they were ultimately dashed when China insisted that Hong Kong diplomats take second place to British representatives , thus demoting the views of the colony and effectively limiting the talks to the Britain and China . |
| 25 | I 'd have given his place to Fat Frank , but if he 's off to , then maybe Whelan or Forrester could get the starting nod . |
| 26 | Les Collins ( Edinburgh ) achieved a magnificent second place to legendary American rider Bruce Penhall in Los Angeles Coliseum ten years ago . |
| 27 | I tried to explain to Irena that I did n't mind , that this was how I felt it should be — the real Central Europe — and anyway I preferred that kind of place to ordered museums and shining monuments . |
| 28 | Give more place to local issues and fundraising . |