Example sentences of "[adj] place on the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument is clearest in its application to the theatre : recall Harsnett 's view that the theatre was a zone of pollution and licence , one capable of being managed by locating it in a designated place on the social periphery . |
| 2 | Sent away to prep school at eight , he was lonely and homesick and no sooner had he settled in than he moved to public school , to Gordonstoun , a bleak and desolate place on the windswept north-east coast of Scotland , with a regime to match . |
| 3 | Even if you are only seeing a few people there should be someone to greet them on arrival and make them feel they have come to the right place on the right day . |
| 4 | They walked on , thinking of This and That , and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap , which is sixty-something trees in a circle ; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four , not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it . |
| 5 | Where the two offices were united in one structure , Angell and Pownall seem to have given them an equal place on the Foreign Office and War Department lists , no doubt thinking that the implementation of the project would be considerably easier if the same architect were carrying out both offices . |
| 6 | As leader for nine years , he had an automatic place on the ruling body . |
| 7 | Our idea — which would involve wheeling a building large enough to cover London 's Tower Bridge over the damaged reactor — gained us a $ prize and , more importantly , an automatic place on the short list for bidding for the 3 million ECU feasibility contract . |
| 8 | Islam traditionally held an important place on the political stage or the West Bank . |