Example sentences of "[prep] place [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end we had to settle for a hurried and depressing buffet in the North British Hotel , with a menu which would not have been out of place at a Sunday-school picnic . |
| 2 | ‘ How to never feel out of place at a social function ’ ( get drunk ? ) |
| 3 | The whiskey glass from which King Brian drank is given pride of place as a hallowed relic on the top shelf of The Rathcullen Arms , destined to be the basis of many a tall tale . |
| 4 | Well not as way out of place as a British Telecom building would look but , it looks quite erm looks quite out of place , but erm this massive great obnoxious Georgian building erm was broken into on Christmas morning right ? |
| 5 | Company skills are out of place in a spiritual environment |
| 6 | Some of the dry goods are housed here , but to find a host of Koi-related decorative items you enter a building that would not look out of place in a Japanese tea garden . |
| 7 | I had sold the contents of the cottages to the incoming purchaser , as well as several large pieces from the melin which would have been quite out of place in a modern house . |
| 8 | When it 's finished it 'll take pride of place in a new aircraft museum to be opened in Gloucestershire . |
| 9 | When , therefore , anything is out of place in a picturesque point of view , it excites his criticism , notwithstanding its utility in other respects . ’ |
| 10 | It is a slightly adolescent , indulgent account of a love affair — adolescent because it is redolent of a wide-eyed naivety out of place in a middle-aged man : indulgent because at times he hints that the eagles , with names like Atalanta and Melanion , may be reciprocating his feelings . |
| 11 | A Tudor Doll 's House takes pride of place in a fine collection of houses and period dolls . |
| 12 | A single large houseplant , given pride of place against a plain background , can be a dramatic focal point . |
| 13 | On the energy efficiency front , expensive internal stair light bulbs at Pollock Halls of Residence have been replaced with more cost-effective compact fluorescent 2D lamps , paying for themselves in 17 months ; a 95% efficiency condensing boiler has been installed at High School Yards in place of a traditional boiler with only 60–65% efficiency ; in the Main Library 5,000 obsolete light fittings have been renewed by half that number with improved light levels . |
| 14 | In place of a new catalogue , the Whitney Museum republished Calder 's Universe , the book which served for its more comprehensive retrospective exhibition of 1976 , the year of the artist 's death . |
| 15 | In place of a Socratic self-assurance , modern man has a Faustian yearning . |
| 16 | Most greenhouses are easily fitted with a louvred ventilator in place of a normal sheet of glass . |
| 17 | In place of a separate bell cord for each direction , a single cord was run along the centre of the ceiling to a bell on each canopy . |
| 18 | But if they are transported in place of a pH-changing anion , then , as the salts of strong acids , they should generate no pH change and the pH o change per uptake current should be less than with Cl - in the cell . |
| 19 | Indeed one corner of the bed was supported by a number of books in place of a missing leg . ’ |
| 20 | In place of a human hand several hybrids sported the terrible , strong claw of the purestrain Genestealer . |
| 21 | Now , with a dead sheep in place of a human body , they 're trying to discover what happens within the flames |
| 22 | Now , with a dead sheep in place of a human body , they 're trying to discover what happens within the flames |
| 23 | This charge will not be limited to the straightforward case where a shareholder elects to take scrip in place of a particular cash dividend , but will also cover other arrangements which achieve a similar result , for instance by the issue of a separate class of shares carrying the right to a stock dividend . |
| 24 | In place of a constitutional expert , the Colonial Office despatched Sir Frederick Bourne , formerly an Indian Governor , and then Governor of East Pakistan . |
| 25 | Akayev told parliament : " It is necessary to keep in the constitution references to the moral value of Islam , and no one needs any convincing that in place of a secular state we shall build an Islamic state . |
| 26 | In place of a blind faith in divine providence , they proposed a rational social contract which they believed would free mankind from many of our perennial ills . |
| 27 | The case of City of London Corporation v Fell [ 1992 ] 2 EG 172 came to the surprising conclusion that unless the lease provides otherwise ( eg by providing that the original tenant 's obligations will remain in place during a statutory tenancy ) , where the lease has been assigned and the present tenant is holding over , the original tenant 's liability ends on the contractual term date . |
| 28 | A tail-steady , which should have been in place under a hard point before work started , was about 6″ out of position . |
| 29 | He was fastidious about his hair , which he grew long and lacquered in place over a balding pate . |
| 30 | His wife had been put in place as a Soviet agent . |