Example sentences of "[pos pn] place [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would you like to come back to my place for some oral sex ? ’ a young woman asked . |
| 2 | ‘ No one will be at my place at this time of night . ’ |
| 3 | As I took my place with two jamjars in my first Saturday morning kids matinee queue , apprehensive lest the currency had been devalued or even replaced with money , I observed that not only were Royals the heroes in the films but that my choice of cinema was between the Queens and the Royal , and I was warned that before the performance you were supposed to stand for the pianist 's rendition of ‘ God Save the King ’ . |
| 4 | Once again I have stayed away , not sure of my place in all of this . |
| 5 | After that by-election , I remember taking my place in this House and walking nervously towards Mr. Speaker . |
| 6 | By 1900 the dry air refrigerator had lost its place to chemical machines using CO 2 or ammonia . |
| 7 | It seems to me that the court itself had a right of custody at this time in the sense that it had the right to determine the child 's place of residence , and it was in breach of that right that the mother removed the child from its place of habitual residence . |
| 8 | Iran would benefit from the squashing of Iraq by taking its place as regional superpower and master of the Gulf . |
| 9 | In my opinion , this dog book will have its place on such a curriculum . |
| 10 | In the broadest sense antislavery took its place with Smithite liberalism and Owenism , democratic radicalism and anti-Jacobinism as an aspect of a peculiarly intense self-scrutiny by a society conscious of the significant change it was undergoing . |
| 11 | The decimal point keeps its place with two figures behind it to the right . |
| 12 | This particular flight can take its place with those of his boyhood heroes , Kingsford-Smith and Ulm . |
| 13 | Erm so there are these other forms of energy as well , erm nuclear power er will take its place along those , alongside those I 'm sure in the future er it does have its problems , the main problem is the possibility of er major accidents and many of you will remember the accident at Chernobyl in the , what was then the Soviet Union , it 's now the , now the er Ukraine erm when in nineteen eighty six the , there was a very serious accident and the er roof er blew off and er radioactivity was pumped into the er atmosphere . |
| 14 | Theology in all its guises should step down from its exalted position and take its place alongside all other human activities and contribute to an autonomous religion only what is relevant , and that with no more authority than is accorded any other sphere of human endeavour . |
| 15 | But instead — and with careful guidance — it should eventually take its place alongside other measures of credit cost as a useful tool for comparison , and as a warning signal where credit cost is really high . |
| 16 | This definition of the importance of a unity of view in management and of the importance of sharing interest and concern allows the significance of the classroom and of the small-scale , almost invisible base of experience of the individual teacher to take its place alongside larger aspects of policy and of governmental requirement in the total framework of a school 's management . |
| 17 | Local government had its place within this consensus , and its role was accepted by both major political parties . |
| 18 | The foreign ministry which took its place in that year had fifty-one in 1895 , ninety-two in 1911 and 146 when the monarchy collapsed in 1918 . |
| 19 | Adenauer was determined to preserve Germany 's nascent democracy , and its place in Romano-Christian culture by tying the country firmly to other Western democracies . |
| 20 | As to what should take , or was taking , its place in Western Europe , Hallstein seemed to be in no doubt : it was the EEC and its Commission . |
| 21 | parody has grown sickly , its place in modern literature is insignificant . |
| 22 | And although frowned on by some , sugar has its place in small quantities amidst the salt and pepper , particularly if the vinegar is very acid . |
| 23 | The really interesting question is what will take its place in this vital prime time slot . |
| 24 | Only time will tell whether it can hold its place in this competitive field . |
| 25 | Danes Dyke farm , which was originally part of the Sewerby estate , found its place in literary history as Anerley Farm in R. D. Blackmore 's romantic novel Mary Anerley . |
| 26 | In light of these findings , we suggest that social work needs to move away from profession-centred approaches to education and practice and towards a reconceptualization of its place in social welfare and social development efforts . |
| 27 | The second chapel became the meeting hall after the third one took its place in 1900 . |
| 28 | Even solidago ( goldenrod ) , which in London used to colonise old bomb sites , has its place in larger arrangements . |
| 29 | In the abdomen , MRI has not yet found its place in routine clinical practice . |
| 30 | Already it had its place in local balladry . |