Example sentences of "place of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will encompass American political culture ; the role and structure of the legislative branch ; the place of political parties , problems of bureaucratic control ; and the nature of presidential power . |
| 2 | Yet , De Lauretis argues , this new figural cinema at least poses the question of ‘ how to reconstruct and organize vision from the impossible place of female desire ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Continental-style pressurised hot water systems in place of the conventional header tank , underfloor heating instead of radiators , condensing boilers in place of standard designs quickly pay for themselves . |
| 5 | In place of vague ideological statements and piecemeal policies the primary sector now needs a substantial programme of professional development and support aimed at enhancing the curriculum expertise of all its primary staff , and targeted in the first instance on those aspects of the curriculum where studies like this have identified the greatest problems . |
| 6 | But for the moment , the prospect of marriage to a woman he loved , and of life together in a place of exquisite beauty , seemed to offer the stability and direction he never ceased to crave in his personal life . |
| 7 | Secretaries of State consider that the diversity of practice that has emerged in recent years , as shown particularly by HM Inspectors ' surveys of Primary and Secondary Schools , makes it timely to prepare guidance on the place of certain key elements in the curriculum . |
| 8 | If the basis of primary schools was now ( to quote Alec Clegg ) ‘ to help each child to walk into his future with firm steps and bright eyes ’ , the primary school classroom should not be a place dominated by the teacher but a place of mutual trust and co-operation . |
| 9 | Spellings , titles , and the use of initials in place of long names are all very important . |
| 10 | The client who presents a single problem will be allowed time to explore several ; the client who appears with a threatened electricity disconnection will be given time to expose other debts ; CAB workers are more aware of the place of industrial tribunals , of medical appeals and of welfare rights case law . |
| 11 | They will also use the data from two major surveys which have been funded directly by the ESRC : the survey , for which Paul Edwards is primarily responsible , looking at the place of industrial relations considerations within managerial decision-making in large manufacturing establishments , and the so-called ‘ Higher Level Survey ’ , for which Paul Marginson is responsible , looking at the hitherto neglected area of enterprise-level decision-making in industrial relations . |
| 12 | ‘ The place of nutritional intervention in the management of human cancer remains controversial , but it is an exciting prospect to consider that substances so innocuous and commonplace as essential fatty acids may prove to be of benefit in cancer therapy . ’ |
| 13 | Left unremarked in the discussion so far is the irony of the place of criminal punishment in a system which emphasizes conciliatory control based upon compliance . |
| 14 | If I am serious , I can not simply see the preservation of the countryside as a desire of a few people like myself , to be weighed in the balance against the desires of others for holidays abroad , when it comes to deciding on whether a new airport should be built in some place of outstanding beauty . |
| 15 | Further , Euric 's court was clearly a place of far-reaching importance . |
| 16 | The home kitchen is no longer a comforting place of continuous humming activity and bubbling stockpots ; it is far more likely to be the scene of short-term frantic effort . |
| 17 | Perhaps this opens up the idea of the Government substituting depreciation accounting in place of principal repayments of loans but imposing the same control over the depreciation charge that it imposes on the minimum revenue provision . |
| 18 | The emergence of nation states , initially in Western Europe and the US , depended upon two main conditions : one was the development of modern centralized government , undertaken by the absolute monarchs from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century , while the other was the rise of nationalism , embodying the idea of political self-determination for a social group which inhabits a definite territory , conceives itself as having a distinct ethnic and cultural character , and has embarked upon a struggle to establish popular sovereignty in place of dynastic rule . |
| 19 | On the sweet subject of Telethons — or Telecoms , as most people call them , to me at any rate — these monstrous TV raffles which raise millions each year to take the place of decent health care for people who 've paid their National Insurance for decades , are big business . |
| 20 | In pre-historic times megalith-builders from Portugal to Denmark erected huge stone structures in place of simple burial grounds : symbols both of similar beliefs in some form of after-life and evidence of an extraordinary capacity to organise . |
| 21 | The place of geriatric medicine within the new arrangements for the National Health Service also remains unclear . |
| 22 | This means of discrimination takes the place of visual examination of the area . |
| 23 | Replacive minerals grow , as their name suggests , in the place of pre-existing minerals and not into pore spaces . |
| 24 | It is a place of wide expanses , immense opportunity , widespread corruption , constant violence , sexual laissez-faire and general fantasy , appalling gulfs between rich and poor , between survivors and the condemned . |
| 25 | Gardens , said Gertrude Jekyll , ‘ may either be fashioned into a dream of beauty , a place of perfect rest and refreshment of the mind and body — a series of soul-satisfying pictures … or they may be so misused that everything is jarring and displeasing . |
| 26 | If Habermas has relegated the aesthetic realm to foreground the place of practical and theoretical reason , and if Adorno has attributed priority to the aesthetic , albeit a rationalized and formalized aesthetics from which connections to the social-political are at best obscure , then Benjamin , probably critical theory 's foremost sociologist of culture , has — much like French poststructuralism — promulgated an aesthetics and politicized understanding of art and culture that on a range of essential points are effectively postmodernist . |
| 27 | All these sights and sounds alone would have fascinated Joseph 's young mind , but the murmured talk of deities and devils beyond his imaginings coming from the grave-faced little mandarin pacing at his side established the walled city of palaces lastingly in his mind as a place of deep mystery and enchantment , and by the time Tran Van Hieu delivered him to the governor 's aide outside the Palace of Perfect Concord he was almost ready to believe he would see a live white tiger curled up contentedly with a blue dragon around the emperor 's feet . |
| 28 | Schools who had the interest and expertise should be encouraged to make a reasonable investment of time in teaching such units in place of separate optional topics . ' |
| 29 | The nudes became a favourite meeting place of young men , at which point the local wives and mothers could contain themselves no longer and insisted that they be moved elsewhere , much to the annoyance of the sculptor Ernesto Bazzaro . |
| 30 | There also the old folks , as far back as I can recollect , the meeting place of young and old on New Year 's Day to play shinty . |