Example sentences of "[pos pn] place [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | My persistence paid off when the RCA relented and grudgingly allowed me to take my place on a joint MA course in the departments of Environmental Media and Design Education . |
| 2 | I do not elaborate but take my place on a towel with the others . |
| 3 | One of my friends was at Sherborne and speaks very posh — I took him back to my place for a drink one day and my dad was going , ‘ Dennis , listen to Tim , listen — go on , talk , say something ’ and my friend says , ‘ Well I do n't know what to say really , Mr Waterman , ’ and my dad says to me , ‘ Why do n't you talk like that , you could make a fortune . ’ |
| 4 | If not , come back to my place for a drink . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been fortunate enough to work with the likes of Joe Mercer and Jack Charlton and I know my place in a football club . |
| 6 | I was ultimately awarded colours but in my third year lost my place after a sharp attack of influenza which weakened my confidence . |
| 7 | He had stopped prowling to lift a dining chair from its place beside a circular dining table , swinging it round to sit astride it , resting his arms along its back and meeting Gina 's quizzical gaze with a rueful smile . |
| 8 | Then it takes its place over a period of time within the wider teaching of the principles , planning and practice of worship , enabling the ordinand to explore the theological and practical importance of music in an appropriate context . |
| 9 | All the magic had died from it , and it was but a husk of itself ; for all my art , it could tell me only one thing — that no one could restore it to its place except a child not yet born , and born only for that task . |
| 10 | And only if such change occurs , and local government is organized in strong units with power to take major decisions , will present trends towards centralization be reversed , and local democracy secure its place as a major part of our democratic system . |
| 11 | The News International ban was arguably effected along party lines , but it owes its place as a landmark in censorship , and censorship in libraries in particular , to the fact that legislation and hence the State was used to lift censorship rather than to implement it . |
| 12 | Each of these aspects has its place as a foundation for faith , though the church 's part is not so much essential to faith as an expression of faith . |
| 13 | It would be an important step towards APR taking its place as a familiar comparative yardstick of credit costliness for the general run of consumers , and proving its value as a useful warning signal for high-cost credit deals . |
| 14 | A climb to savour , Moyer 's Buttress deserves its place as a classic gritstone E1 . |
| 15 | From this current perspective , pop is either Light Entertainment — taking its place as a cheeky yet responsible apprentice in the adult world of showbiz — or tawdry trash that is beneath contempt . |
| 16 | The legitimacy of present-day regimes depends to an overwhelming extent , and has so depended since the end of the Second World War , upon the effective promotion of a high rate of economic growth ; and if that rate becomes increasingly difficult to sustain , and tends to decline , as a result of both social and physical limits to growth , what will take its place as a legitimating purpose for governments ? |
| 17 | Then , as now , I shall do my best to ensure the protection of Scotland 's best interests by maintaining its place as a full , equal partner in this United Kingdom Parliament . |
| 18 | Polypropylene has earned its place as a large volume high growth polymer [ 11 per cent per annum compound for the past give years ] because of its attractive balance of properties , its ability to be processed by a wide variety of techniques , and its competitive economics and cost effectiveness . |
| 19 | Richard Chauncy tore down this house , and built the one which stands in its place at a cost of £20,000 between 1747 and 1752 . |
| 20 | She withdrew the photo abruptly and returned it to its place on a table . |
| 21 | A firm knowledge of what jargon is , then , should take its place with a stout pair of boots and a spare pair of braces , in every science-writer 's knapsack . |
| 22 | THE BBC still has n't signed the contract with British Aerospace , Marconi and British Telecom that will seal its place aboard a satellite to broadcast TV signals and hi-fi sound direct into British homes from 1986 . |
| 23 | It takes its place among a range of other aids we use quite regularly , so we have to decide what its strengths are . |
| 24 | Birthday Offering Precise and accurately placed enchaînements and éaulement give a clear definition to each step and pose as it takes its place in a perfectly balanced design . |
| 25 | Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about . |
| 26 | Less lovable was ‘ divinity calf ’ , which John Carter , with restrained distaste , called ‘ an unpleasant kind of smooth calf , usually of a colour between lavender and cocoa ’ ; but , with its bevelled boards and red edges , it should have its place in a collection . |
| 27 | The arguments for Britain holding its place in a growing , prosperous European economic community are unanswerable . |
| 28 | One of the trickiest problems with a faceted classification scheme has been notation , that is to say , the symbols ( e.g. decimal numbers ) which represent the subject and mechanize its place in a shelf or catalogue array . |
| 29 | Among the Kwakiutl , discussed above , all objects may be related through a style expressive of an orality in which humankind achieves significance by its place in a universal cycle of devouring and reproduction ( Walens 1981 ) . |
| 30 | Probation … is a test or trial of the character of a convicted offender under suspension of judgment , in order that the court may determine if the probationer be fit to retain his or her place as a helpful member of society , or being unfit , must be deprived of his or her liberty as a menace to society . |