Example sentences of "place [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Stade Roland Garros , the Centre Court temperature is rarely like to be less than 100 degrees F. The sunbaked concrete and clay cauldron is no place for the weak kneed or willed . |
| 2 | Symbol seems to be thought of just as standing in place for the real thing because that is absent . |
| 3 | The proposed environmental impact assessment at the site will still take place for the new project and will include evaluation of high temperature and rotary kiln incineration , as well as new technologies . |
| 4 | It 's a wonderful place for the adventurous walker and as the moor is criss-crossed with bridleways it 's ideal for horse riders and mountain bikers . |
| 5 | Despite his severe view of the temptations of the world , his spirituality allowed a very large place for the physical world and for the rights of those to whom the administration of this world had been committed . |
| 6 | Whatever the circumstances an open and frank discussion must take place between the new employee and her manager at the earliest opportunity . |
| 7 | In his haste to be gone on his mysteriously urgent errand , only the briefest of exchanges had taken place between the dark Maltese and her friends , while she was being returned like a sack of damp laundry to its rightful owners … |
| 8 | In the early period , the designation ‘ middle ’ marked out an intermediate place between the industrial proletariat and servant classes on the one hand , and the landed and financial aristocracy on the other — a place occupied not only by the rising industrial and commercial bourgeoisie , but also by the traditional professions and the civil servants , clerks and school teachers . |
| 9 | Extensive correspondence took place between the National Council and the colleges , as well as with the local authorities and the Secretary of State . |
| 10 | At the time of going to press , behind-the-scenes negotiations were taking place between the National Gallery and the Marquess of Cholmondeley in the hope that a last-ditch solution could be found . |
| 11 | West of Turnham Green considerable residential development had already taken place between the High Road and Wellesley Road , including Chiswick Road , Marlborough Road , Grosvenor Road , Heathfield Gardens and Arlington Park Gardens North and South — the latter being renamed later Walpole Gardens , and the former shortened to Arlington Gardens . |
| 12 | An immersion heater timer is wired in place between the double-pole switch and the immersion heater |
| 13 | Hodads from Honolulu still think of the place as the Wild West and venture up the H-2 to stare at surfers as if they were herds of buffalo grazing on the sea . |
| 14 | All these marriages took place during the Great War and it is a matter of generation more than anything else if the groom was a serviceman . |
| 15 | Internal histological changes , comparable to those occurring in exopterygotes , take place during the prepupal period and the wing-rudiment becomes pushed out of its pocket and comes to lie just beneath the cuticle . |
| 16 | She continued to tell Charlie everything that had taken place during the past year and the only frown to appear on his forehead came when Charlie learned the details of Daphne 's investment . |
| 17 | In the growing queue for the buffet on the Cheshire Cheese , the passengers moved one place nearer the long-awaited ham and tomato sandwich in stony silence . |
| 18 | In the resulting breed , the body is covered with a short , soft down in place of the usual fur and as the cat grows up this down persists only on the extremities . |
| 19 | But the drive to increase sales and to provide more entertaining material in a different form — both products of the commercialization of the newspaper — directly challenged the place of the political speech and the political leader in the newspaper of the late 19th century . |
| 20 | It astonished her how the passage of time had censored from his memory everything except the trimmings like crackers , turkeys and mince pies ; and he 'd imagined , in the place of the emotional strain and physical surfeit he 'd forgotten , a wholly fictitious jollity . |
| 21 | Then the pair of them returned to the place of the burnt-out patch and in the relative safety of that refuge huddled there as the bush fire swept down on them . |
| 22 | In the first place it is a single system of examinations in place of the dual system that has been operating for the last twenty-two years . |
| 23 | This relies on a constitutional sleight of hand to substitute the following , much broader , interpretation in place of the orthodox version that is prevalent elsewhere : |
| 24 | Lancashire is the best cheese to use in place of the Greek Feta when you return from holiday but still hanker after the sun . |
| 25 | And er I do n't think I 'm being too sort of general here if I sort of quote the place of the local preacher or the the person who 's leading our worship . |
| 26 | In place of the old horse and cab . |
| 27 | The amended motion takes the place of the original motion and becomes the substantive motion . |
| 28 | I called the dogs and they crowded behind me into the morning room , clip-clipping to their place with the chewed blanket and the bones . |
| 29 | It should be noted that whenever a new module or SPR is added to an SSR , using options 4.5.1 and 4.5.2 , further distribution of the SSR takes place via the new relationship and further endorsements are required . |
| 30 | I think particularly of consultation on change , which must take place under the social charter but which has not been observed . |