Example sentences of "[adj] place in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I was a child there was a damp place in the long meadow where there used to be a lovely yellow flower we call butterballs , and children would bring them for the teacher . |
| 2 | Overseas exploration and colonial settlement opened up vistas of fabulous riches ; the existence of the barbarians could no longer just be taken for granted ; they had to be fitted in and given their proper place in the ordinary man 's picture of world geography . |
| 3 | Lubavitch occupies a peculiar place in the Jewish world . |
| 4 | It stated that Scott , who ‘ has fairly earned the most distinguished place in the late competition ’ , should receive the commission , or the fourteen office prize-winners should compete against themselves . |
| 5 | he would perhaps have a " certain historical place in the literary history of our period " , and Herbert Read recalled how he might on occasions say , " Valery , Yeats and I … " . |
| 6 | He added : ‘ In reality , the royal women have a second-class place in the Royal Family , and no one more so than the Princess of Wales . ’ |
| 7 | These aims have gained a high symbolic place in the public imagination and the institution has set out to prevent and detect acts which are usually subsumed under a generic ( but simplistic ) classification of ‘ crime ’ . |
| 8 | Now they had an opportunity for acceptance , for respectability , for an official place in the social structure — in exchange for certain compromises and relaxations in dogma . |
| 9 | Dockworkers occupied a crucial place in the economic process , which they exploited to raise their earnings considerably above the average for manual workers . |
| 10 | The foal becomes a social animal and part of the herd , and as it matures it is likely to take a similar place in the social hierarchy of the herd as its mother . |
| 11 | Readiness for war , as well as the actual waging of war , becomes a principal political concern , military leaders acquire a more prominent place in the political system , and the economy is geared increasingly to military needs , giving rise to what has been called the ‘ military-industrial complex ’ as one of the main centres of power and of economic growth . |
| 12 | The trends I have identified here clearly occupied a central place in the political thought of Max Weber , of Marxist thinkers such as Bauer and Hilferding , of Schumpeter , and of their numerous followers and successors . |
| 13 | This is very true of contemporary civilian politics in Nigeria , where the mass media occupy a central place in the new democracy . |
| 14 | It seems relevant that anthropology be used at this time to contribute to the debate on policing , for since the 1964 Police Act and the preceding Royal Commission which was generated through concern over police practice , the organization has held an increasingly central place in the public imagination . |
| 15 | Science now occupied a central place in the ensuing debate over national efficiency . |
| 16 | It has an impressive enrolment count and a strong place in the local community . |
| 17 | As always each team , a mix of GBP members and celebrities , chases points in the battle to win a luxury weekend break prize and a possible place in the grand final . |
| 18 | Consequently , each earthly object would have a natural place in the sub-lunar region depending on the relative proportion of the four elements that it contained . |
| 19 | In particular he will never rely on the operator spontaneously remembering to do something which has no natural place in the developing task ( p. 56 ) . |
| 20 | Their habits have probably always been similar , and if survival is to be taken as a measure of success , their conservative way of life has ensured them of a leading place in the evolutionary marathon . |
| 21 | The role of the hundred meeting point as a focal place in the late Saxon and early medieval landscape has remained largely unappreciated , although R. H. Britnell has recently discussed the potential . |
| 22 | He devoted much effort over many years to restoring him to his rightful place in the chemical hierarchy . |
| 23 | The intriguing structures they find may be evidence that sudden explosive events play the dominant role in at least some dynamical phenomena , and that molecular clouds therefore have a rightful place in the current perception of the interstellar medium as one subjected to assaults of extreme violence . |
| 24 | FROM early history to the present day the Catholic Church has established a rightful place in the educational work of society and has based its mission upon three claims : |
| 25 | Members of Wales PPA quickly realised that these published beliefs were the same as their own , and that here was perhaps an opportunity to avail themselves of much-needed funding to establish support systems which would enable families to take their rightful place in the local playgroup or mother and toddler group . |
| 26 | Or should we give them back their dignity , their freedom and their rightful place in the natural order of the world 's rivers and oceans ? |
| 27 | He was restored to his rightful place in the Jewish community , for he was a ‘ son of Abraham ’ ( Luke 19:9 ) : |
| 28 | Calzaghe , from Newbridge , won the welterweight title last year but moved up one weight when he was promised the light-middleweight place in the Welsh squad for the Olympic trials last month in Milan . |
| 29 | The denigration of office work as inferior , non-manual labour , has a key place in the sexual transformation of clerical work around the turn of the century . |
| 30 | Thus we can say that in traditional Celtic societies the bard was given an honoured place in the official organization of the ‘ kingdom ’ or ‘ tribe ’ . |