Example sentences of "[adj] place [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another place within easy reach is Culloden Moor ; the railway will take you within a few miles . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ah but they always watched th they would be in some place over bad storms you know . |
| 4 | Yet every afternoon , a group of journalists weaves its way along several gloomy corridors and up various flights of stairs to a cold , windy place with impressive views over the gilded roof of the Houses of Parliament , Westminster Bridge and the River Thames . |
| 5 | The proper place for fast engines would , in the future , be where they operated most efficiently — in the air . |
| 6 | Or , to turn these questions around , what relevance do these intra-collegial debates over the ‘ proper place of general practice ’ have for everyday medical work and the participants ' views of it ? |
| 7 | I was conscious that here I belonged to a community with roots in the distant past and a distinguished place in British history . |
| 8 | Ben parked his newly acquired BMW at the roadside and hoped it would be there when he returned , reassuring himself that in this place of utter solitude car thieves were n't likely to creep out of the hedgerows with duplicate keys . |
| 9 | They explain the principles behind their idea for this place of intensive and serious study for painters of all levels |
| 10 | In two successive years , I have pointed out that , although we take serious action on giving access to Members of Parliament , we take little action on , and treat with scant seriousness , the question of access to this place for disabled people . |
| 11 | This is a matter of major constitutional importance which will have to be looked at by the House of Lords and no doubt considered by this place in due course . |
| 12 | Its advent was auspicious in that following the Second World War the strenuous efforts of many social scientists , especially in the United States , to secure a more acceptable place for social science , which itself contributed to many of the techniques which became part of variable analysis , was served by a way of thinking which seemed to offer a way of emulating some of the crucial features of the scientific method . |
| 13 | They like to renew old acquaintances , make new friends , see an interesting place in good company , recharge their batteries . |
| 14 | It appears to be a rather desolate place with wide windswept prairies ringed by snow-capped hills , but it has plenty of what the ferrets need : prairie dogs . |
| 15 | Section 139 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 makes it an offence to possess a bladed or sharply pointed article in a public place without good reason . |
| 16 | Furthermore , it raises yet again the economic and political implications which too frequently take second place to other matters but which are of the greatest importance for West Belfast . |
| 17 | There is a taste of the difficulties ahead in the ordering of priorities in the advanced industrial countries : first place goes to economic growth and second place to environmental security . |
| 18 | David Copperfield had taken second place to Great Expectations . |
| 19 | But this is probably better than some of the attempts that have been made deliberately to exploit the natural human interest in such a tragic event with supposedly factual accounts of the eruption , in which accurate reportage takes second place to lurid , entirely hypothetical detail . |
| 20 | From now on , she told Yeats , romantic passion would be taking second place to political commitment . |
| 21 | But they were ultimately dashed when China insisted that Hong Kong diplomats take second place to British representatives , thus demoting the views of the colony and effectively limiting the talks to the Britain and China . |
| 22 | However , religious identity had taken second place to secular nationalism for a whole generation . |
| 23 | Les Collins ( Edinburgh ) achieved a magnificent second place to legendary American rider Bruce Penhall in Los Angeles Coliseum ten years ago . |
| 24 | Theory and criticism should not take second place to imaginative writing ’ … |
| 25 | Britain 's biggest clothing retailer , Marks and Spencer , became the country 's most profitable retailer once more when it knocked J Sainsbury into second place with pre-tax profits up 25% to a record £736.5m ( $1.2 billion ) in the year to end-March . |
| 26 | In Schleswig-Holstein , the SPD beat the CDU into second place at local level for the first time . |
| 27 | But his clubs blazed most effectively when he put Nicklaus and Ballesteros into second place at Royal Birkdale . |
| 28 | Although women are a primary focus of many psychological investigations of the family , for instance , they tend to be relegated to second place in biological explanations of the results . |
| 29 | In 1987 , The Tsarevich , jointly owned by Edgar Bronfman , the Chairman of The Seagram Company and Ivan Straker , Chairman of Seagram Distillers ran into second place behind Maori Venture , owned by 92-year-old Jim Joel who thus becomes one of the select band who have owned both English Derby and Grand National winners . |
| 30 | The container also conceals the bottom of the downpipe and its outlet , transforming an eyesore into the perfect place for growing plants . |