Example sentences of "[pron] place in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I turned down a new contract at the end of the season , even though it meant getting a testimonial next year because I 've got to be playing in the Premier League to confirm my place in the Irish side . |
| 2 | As I took my place in the darkened centre stage for the opening of the first act , and the lights slowly came up , I saw a sight which I 've never seen before , a sight which chilled me to the marrow and froze me to the spot . |
| 3 | A quick blast in the G40 is enough to confirm its place in the junior hot-hatch line up . |
| 4 | Nicolas Poussin 's ‘ A dance to the music of time ’ ( 1639–40 ) which gave its name to the famous series of novels by Anthony Powell , was recently returned to its place in the Great Gallery following restoration by Herbert Lank , Simon Bobak and Nonie Tasker . |
| 5 | Perhaps some asteroid , nudged out of its place in the great gravitational gavotte , would fall to Earth ; a bullet into a face , obliterating . |
| 6 | Both these are very different from the ‘ experimental researches ’ which made up Faraday 's main research-publications , where every paragraph is numbered consecutively up to 3,299 , and where theorizing is kept in its place in the Baconian manner . |
| 7 | It too , however , would soon make way to allow the changes necessary if the brewery was to take its place in the modern world . |
| 8 | The anti-conspiratorial rhetoric of the Vanguard argument has its place in the general National Front argument about tactics . |
| 9 | Snowdon also has its place in the magical history of Britain . |
| 10 | And we should not be bashful about its place in the current international art scene . |
| 11 | However , we need to adopt a balanced viewpoint and accept that the use of drugs can not be totally ruled out ; everything has its place in the holistic scheme of things . |
| 12 | Although intuitive aromatherapy is much derided by orthodox practitioners ( and even by a few scientifically minded aromatherapists ) , it too has its place in the holistic scheme of things . |
| 13 | When a social profile of a certain group is constructed using these variables , its place in the social hierarchy is usually evident . |
| 14 | These complications have led to a whole variety of views as to the composition of the middle class and its place in the social structure . |
| 15 | What is its place in the social hierarchy of knowledge ? |
| 16 | In politics he was usually to the left of H. M. Hyndman , whom he much admired , but he accepted the latter 's scepticism towards trade unionism and its place in the socialist movement . |
| 17 | Whatever its place in the literary league tables , After Silence is undoubtedly entertaining : Carroll 's style has a high gloss , twinkling with near epigrams : his novel is packed with cute , intelligent or attractively wacky characters — cartoonist Mac Fisher , his lover Lily Aaron , her little boy Lincoln , the temperamental gay owners of the restaurant where Lily works , all inhabit the warm , cutesy , feel-good world of an Armistead Maupin novel . |
| 18 | Form is made perceptible against a background of existing literary form , and the function of a device is determined not just by the structural hierarchy of a particular work , but by its place in the literary system as a whole . |
| 19 | Dickie the Great Dane has been entrusted with the unusual task of demonstrating that safe sex has its place in the canine world . |
| 20 | Irrespective of the circumstances of their composition , the Anglo-Norman fabliaux were transmitted , eventually , and preserved for posterity because the fabliau was recognized as a genre which had its place in the full range of new and recent vernacular literary production in England . |
| 21 | Dill has been slow to win its place in the English kitchen . |
| 22 | It would be easier , he thinks , at dawn , to fix his gaze steadily on one particular light and then to establish its place in the returning landscape . |
| 23 | Her success against 31 other drivers in the regional contest won her place in the national final in Bedfordshire later this year . |
| 24 | Käthè Kollwitz seemingly used her autobiographical writing in letters and the diary to establish a sense of her place in the artistic community . |
| 25 | Of his eight symphonies written over this period , two ( No 25 in G minor , K.183 , and No 29 in A major , K.201 ) are works of outstanding maturity , and are his earliest symphonies to take their place in the standard modern repertory . |
| 26 | Still , even these , to whatever extent they are not merely believed in , but have come to be actually felt in the world as we experience it , will thereby have their place in the real fabric of the world , which must certainly include all personal or socially shared versions of it . |
| 27 | This project aims to identify the local leaders who were responsible for chapels , schoolrooms and manses in a period of nonconformist growth , to study their place in the religious bodies they served and in the communities where they lived . |
| 28 | The reason the return of Madness got the fans out and raised critical hackles was because there 'd been no outfit to take their place in the intervening years . |
| 29 | The more fully we have developed ourselves the more cause for such gratitude we will have , and the more we understand the cosmos , particularly by grasping the true nature of detailed parts of it and their place in the total scheme , the more we will appreciate the sheer wonderfulness of it , and arrive at a kind of mystical adoration of it . |
| 30 | We also value our school sixth forms , and will ensure they retain their place in the new system . |