Example sentences of "place [prep] modern " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where he had been standing had been a turning point for cars once upon a time — when there were still cars in the world — but this had never been a place for modern things . |
| 2 | A ceiling fan did duty in place of modern air-conditioning . |
| 3 | Yet Robert Reiner ( 1989 ) , writing on the collective culture of chief constables , is the first to explore their extraordinary place in modern society , simply because as an élite among the powerful in society they have had little need to reveal how they operate , link together , or reveal what structures of significance guide their actions . |
| 4 | parody has grown sickly , its place in modern literature is insignificant . |
| 5 | The castle earned itself a place in modern history on 1 July 1969 when it was the setting for the Investiture of HRH Prince Charles as Prince of Wales . |
| 6 | The transmutation of elements has an important place in modern nuclear physics ( as it did in mediaeval alchemy ) but ran completely counter to the aims of Dalton 's atomistic programme . |
| 7 | Are there any features of the modern jury that can be explained only as historical survivals , which are out of place in modern society , or has the jury been so adapted that it is a truly modern institution ? ’ |
| 8 | It was preposterous enough , a medieval demonstration grotesquely out of place in modern England . |
| 9 | Whereas Polybius ' fortunes can easily be followed , Posidonius ' place in modern thought will be established only when we have a proper study of early ethnography . |
| 10 | In Chapter 1 I emphasized the importance of social classes in the political struggles which take place in modern capitalist societies , and outlined the changes in class structure , as well as the diversity of the political movements and organizations to which classes give rise , in relation to recent politics . |
| 11 | The law of criminal libel is an unnecessary relic of the past which is now generally agreed to have no place in modern jurisprudence . |
| 12 | Ancient oak gave place to modern pine forest on either hand . |