Example sentences of "[prep] place [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The car may look out of place on English roads , but its owner is sure of one thing … it 'll certainly get the buyer noticed . |
| 2 | To attach past experiences to the discoveries of the present ; to combine sense of place with new technologies and yet leave abundant room for the individual 's imagination , these are part of the aim of this work . |
| 3 | Assimilation of place with specific reference to alveolar consonants is described in Gimson ( 1960 ) .1 think it is important to realise that the traditional view of assimilation as a change from one phoneme to another is naive ; modern instrumental studies in the broader field of coarticulation show that when assimilation happens one can often show how there is some sort of combination of articulatory gestures . |
| 4 | On the way there was a café , a reasonable sort of place with discreet lace curtains . |
| 5 | Not at all the sort of place for little Ellie Browne . |
| 6 | Equally , some rugs which represent extremely good value as furnishing items , are not suitable for long-term investments , while rugs with the highest investment potential may be out of place as decorative items in the home . |
| 7 | I tried to explain to Irena that I did n't mind , that this was how I felt it should be — the real Central Europe — and anyway I preferred that kind of place to ordered museums and shining monuments . |
| 8 | Are there any features of the modern jury that can be explained only as historical survivals , which are out of place in modern society , or has the jury been so adapted that it is a truly modern institution ? ’ |
| 9 | It was preposterous enough , a medieval demonstration grotesquely out of place in modern England . |
| 10 | Unwin particularly remarked that the plate rack would not appear out of place in close juxtaposition with the bookshelves . |
| 11 | It required from the pianist an unbelievable independence of hands and fingers , so that unevenly spread accents and criss-crossing figurations appeared to drop into place without obvious effort . |
| 12 | Everything is falling into place for United 's winter push towards their first title in 26 years . |
| 13 | Yet most of Terry Parsons ' generally handsome sets are impressively solid-looking , and are moved into place with machine-like efficiency by the stage crew . |
| 14 | She was about to replace it when she noticed that the satin lining in the bottom of the case had been torn away from one edge , and stitched back into place with large clumsy stitches . |
| 15 | There were plenty of examples of schemes and estates in the area ‘ put into place by caring councils ’ , he said also calling for the freeing of sale money . |
| 16 | Barry has already spent 21 years of his working life doing ‘ occupational therapy ’ in place of real work . |
| 17 | Use low-sodium salt in place of ordinary salt at home . |
| 18 | Perhaps we should be asking our local authorities to install wheelchair access gates in place of ordinary kissing gates wherever possible . |
| 19 | In place of ordinary light bulbs , you could use compact fluorescent lamps . |
| 20 | The emergence of nation states , initially in Western Europe and the US , depended upon two main conditions : one was the development of modern centralized government , undertaken by the absolute monarchs from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century , while the other was the rise of nationalism , embodying the idea of political self-determination for a social group which inhabits a definite territory , conceives itself as having a distinct ethnic and cultural character , and has embarked upon a struggle to establish popular sovereignty in place of dynastic rule . |
| 21 | The theme of the conference was ‘ Museums : Rethinking the Boundaries ’ , and Russian Culture Minister Nicolai Gubenko gave the keynote , in English , in place of no-show Vaclav Havel . |
| 22 | Gonzalo Martii Granizo in place of Rear Adml. |
| 23 | Carlos Vila in place of Rear Adml. |
| 24 | On March 11 US President Bush named Daniel Goldin as the new head of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) in place of Rear Adml. |
| 25 | This problem is so great that it has become fashionable to call for a new kind of organization to put in place of managerial hierarchy , an organization that will better meet the requirements of what is variously called the Information Age , the Services Age or the Post-lndustrial Age . |
| 26 | Coventry could recall Robert Rosario in place of on-loan West Brom striker Paul Williams . |
| 27 | Schools who had the interest and expertise should be encouraged to make a reasonable investment of time in teaching such units in place of separate optional topics . ' |
| 28 | Only four minutes had elapsed when Paul Stewart , used in an emergency striker 's role in place of Israeli Ronny Rosenthal , was chopped from behind by Eric Young — the kind of treatment that enraged Souness . |
| 29 | Divorty is in the second row in place of injured Australian Mike McLean , with another ex-Leeds man , Gary Lord , at loose forward . |
| 30 | Roberto Mancini , playing in place of injured Juventus striker Roberto Baggio , was the man who made the party go with a swing for the Italians . |