Example sentences of "[adj] place [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The proper place for fast engines would , in the future , be where they operated most efficiently — in the air . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | I was conscious that here I belonged to a community with roots in the distant past and a distinguished place in British history . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They like to renew old acquaintances , make new friends , see an interesting place in good company , recharge their batteries . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The container also conceals the bottom of the downpipe and its outlet , transforming an eyesore into the perfect place for growing plants . |
| 10 | Unwin 's early place in British town planning has already been noted ( see pp. 63 ) : at New Earswick , Letchworth and Hampstead , where traditions of vernacular architecture , linked to new forms of residential layout dictated by informality , open space and densities lower than had been the norm , provided both a practical base for a newly developing profession and a rallying cry for the future . |
| 11 | The fact that important elements in the Labour Party were thinking in these terms marked a major shift from the ideals expressed in the party 's 1945 election manifesto , Let Us Face The Future : ‘ [ we shall ] plan from the ground up , giving an appropriate place to constructive enterprise and private endeavour in the national plan ’ . |
| 12 | Tribalism in the pre-amalgamated forces produced a very constricted vision of the world , so that spatial concepts and a narrow geographical containment held a paramount place in determining police reality . |
| 13 | Once we come to terms with the very limited although crucial place of analytic thinking among the varieties of intelligent behaviour , we draw from ‘ Be aware ’ the corollary ‘ Reason as much as and no more than will assist awareness ’ . |
| 14 | The dominant view on the crucial place of Japanese tendencies towards group consensus , rests very heavily on the structural changes that were enshrined in the constitutional apparatus . |
| 15 | A Service Agreement for the purchase of an individual place in residential or nursing home care has been drawn up in discussion with a ‘ reference group ’ of voluntary and private sector providers . |
| 16 | Keep it in a cool , dark place until early Spring , when it should be replanted in the tank . |
| 17 | Yet , De Lauretis argues , this new figural cinema at least poses the question of ‘ how to reconstruct and organize vision from the impossible place of female desire ’ . |
| 18 | There was a small top storey , a room on the flat roof which may have functioned as a sleeping place on hot summer nights : there were similar roof chambers on Egyptian houses too . |
| 19 | On the contrary , as Professor Northcote Parkinson noted at the time , the civil service expanded as never before , locally as well as nationally , and the prominent place of central-government expenditure ( consistently over 40 per cent as a proportion of gross national product in this period ) is an outstanding feature of the period 1951–64 . |
| 20 | It maintains the sovereignty claims to the British Antarctic Territory and thus provides the basis for Britain 's prominent place in international decision-making on Antarctica . |
| 21 | Not only the inequalities of class , but the kinds of deprivation experienced by particular groups or categories of the population — by ethnic or cultural groups , women , immigrants , the unemployed , the very poor , the homeless and others — now occupy a prominent place in political controversy and in the studies undertaken by social scientists . |
| 22 | Some , like traditional psychologists , even claim a central place for biological motherhood in women 's subjectivity : a special ‘ phylogenetic inheritance that makes maternity the most fulfilling role for women , at least when children are young ’ ( Sherman 1971 : 211 ) . |
| 23 | Symbolic capital has a much more central place in traditional than in modern societies . |
| 24 | It is because values can be most effectively defined and expressed in words that the study of literature claims a central place in humane studies . |
| 25 | Helmut Schoeck , the professor of sociology at Mainz , explains the reasons why in a comprehensive analysis which restores the phenomenon of envy to a central place in social motivation . |
| 26 | These characteristics have no real place in vibrant Christian worship , whether of Catholic or Evangelical variety . |
| 27 | As you read you will probably be aware of a character 's potential as a role for the actor — particularly with those who have already an established place in theatrical tradition ( Dickens is full of such characters ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Latin-ness ’ , and in particular ‘ Italian-ness ’ , has an established place in British pop culture as never before . |
| 29 | Ordinary politics adds to these familiar ideals a further one that has no distinct place in utopian axiomatic theory . |
| 30 | Aden was the right place for forward operating facilities , but its scorching barren rocks and unhealthy climate made it an unattractive place in which to station Army and RAF units of the Strategic Reserve . |