Example sentences of "[pos pn] place [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hassan , who was usually with him in Abu Dhabi as well as England , manoeuvred into the rear seat of the Mercedes and I took my place beside the young son who had long since graduated into a licensed driver . |
| 2 | After lunch I recrossed the road to the newsagents , and took my place at the wailing wall of the pornography section . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | DIESEL fuel needs a new PR agent to clean up its image in the minds of the public if it is to take its place as the efficient , environmental fuel of the future that many would like it to be . |
| 6 | If one takes everything into account — the shifts in climate which might well remove the United States from its place as the leading ‘ food power ’ and affect the Soviet Union as well , the limited prospects for increased yields , desertification and the steady increase in the global population — it is clear that in the next century large sections of the world 's population will have a very narrow margin between them and starvation . |
| 7 | He rose , and restored his chair to its place at the neighbouring table . |
| 8 | Finally the coffee was steaming in its pot , as hot as good coffee should be ; the cream had been fetched from its place on the cold stone slab in the pantry and poured into its jug , sugar cubes had been decanted into a tiny flowered porcelain bowl which matched the pot and the jug , together with a matching cup and saucer . |
| 9 | If the study of genetic aspects of colorectal cancer continues at its present pace , molecular biology may soon outgrow its immediate role as a research tool and take its place on the clinical stage . |
| 10 | If they do , then there is no reason why this breed should not take its place among the other pedigree types . |
| 11 | During his seventeen years as Chairman the BDDA progressed not only inside the United Kingdom , but , as the representative organisation of the deaf community of Great Britain , it also took its place within the international deaf community . |
| 12 | The BDA at the end of " the decade stood at a critical juncture at home , but its place within the international deaf community was firmly established through membership of the World Federation of the Deaf ( WFD ) . |
| 13 | A quick blast in the G40 is enough to confirm its place in the junior hot-hatch line up . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Perhaps some asteroid , nudged out of its place in the great gravitational gavotte , would fall to Earth ; a bullet into a face , obliterating . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It too , however , would soon make way to allow the changes necessary if the brewery was to take its place in the modern world . |
| 18 | The anti-conspiratorial rhetoric of the Vanguard argument has its place in the general National Front argument about tactics . |
| 19 | Snowdon also has its place in the magical history of Britain . |
| 20 | And we should not be bashful about its place in the current international art scene . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When a social profile of a certain group is constructed using these variables , its place in the social hierarchy is usually evident . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | What is its place in the social hierarchy of knowledge ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Dickie the Great Dane has been entrusted with the unusual task of demonstrating that safe sex has its place in the canine world . |
| 30 | 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 . |