Example sentences of "the place [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her imagination ran riot , peopling the place with great caliphs , beautiful ladies in gossamer veils and fierce soldiers to guard the purple-red ramparts . |
| 2 | Their caution was well-founded , for several pyres stood ready but unlit in the cemetery , and several members of the Secte Rouge , wearing cross-belts of sisal rope , guarded the place with wicked-looking machetes . |
| 3 | A further worrying issue here is the place of confidential reports , for the editor 's eyes only , which most journals use . |
| 4 | Here he writes that with the succession of avant-gardes taking the place of established avant-gardes there is a certain ‘ épuration ’ of poetry in which the latter is ‘ reduced ’ to its own ‘ proper materials ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ The place of nutritional intervention in the management of human cancer remains controversial , but it is an exciting prospect to consider that substances so innocuous and commonplace as essential fatty acids may prove to be of benefit in cancer therapy . ’ |
| 6 | There have been discussions , both at education committee and at county council which relate to the district auditor 's concerns , er , county council want a full discussion of course about the place of small schools in the county , being a predominantly rural area . |
| 7 | Croi Crua Adhmaid … the Place of Ancient Enchantments … the Heartwood of the Forest … |
| 8 | Many of the disputes in which the English Catholics were involved during Petre 's lifetime were about the place of lay power in an increasingly clericalized church or , as John Milner , bishop of Castabala [ q.v. ] , one of Petre 's most bitter critics , put it , ‘ whether the nomination of our Pastors shall be with Lord Petre or the successors of St Peter ’ . |
| 9 | No mention was made of the place of other Tanzanian news within this Ministerial pecking order . |
| 10 | You can learn about the place of new technologies , acquire new skills and update old ones . |
| 11 | On the sweet subject of Telethons — or Telecoms , as most people call them , to me at any rate — these monstrous TV raffles which raise millions each year to take the place of decent health care for people who 've paid their National Insurance for decades , are big business . |
| 12 | Normal fluorescent tubes are familiar enough , but the main development in recent years has been in compact fluorescent lamps , which take the place of normal light bulbs . |
| 13 | Before the war all the important dealers were Jewish , and they worked from Berlin because it was the place of international business . |
| 14 | If Habermas has relegated the aesthetic realm to foreground the place of practical and theoretical reason , and if Adorno has attributed priority to the aesthetic , albeit a rationalized and formalized aesthetics from which connections to the social-political are at best obscure , then Benjamin , probably critical theory 's foremost sociologist of culture , has — much like French poststructuralism — promulgated an aesthetics and politicized understanding of art and culture that on a range of essential points are effectively postmodernist . |
| 15 | It was a small example of the place of rural policemen and stations . |
| 16 | There is also a larger reason for considering the objection about the place of causal and other nomic connections in science . |
| 17 | Generally smart and unusual fashion shops are fast taking the place of traditional handicrafts , but you will find alabaster and marble ornaments on the coast , a range of local pottery throughout the region and straw and leather-work specialities in Florence . |
| 18 | This means of discrimination takes the place of visual examination of the area . |
| 19 | The home ranked with the church as the place of religious allegiance , and this was symbolized at the beginning and end of the day by family prayers . |
| 20 | Replacive minerals grow , as their name suggests , in the place of pre-existing minerals and not into pore spaces . |
| 21 | The examination of policy implementation in the education service raises a number of interesting questions about local authority autonomy , the role of school management and the place of professional discretion . |
| 22 | Carried out by Sneh Shah ( 1990 ) in an analysis of the place of equal opportunities in core and foundation subjects and working from a number of final and interim reports by NCC working parties , three key points were identified , relating to the ways in which equal opportunities were handled in definitions and statements about syllabus content , in criteria of assessment and in statements of non-statutory guidance . |
| 23 | The client who presents a single problem will be allowed time to explore several ; the client who appears with a threatened electricity disconnection will be given time to expose other debts ; CAB workers are more aware of the place of industrial tribunals , of medical appeals and of welfare rights case law . |
| 24 | They will also use the data from two major surveys which have been funded directly by the ESRC : the survey , for which Paul Edwards is primarily responsible , looking at the place of industrial relations considerations within managerial decision-making in large manufacturing establishments , and the so-called ‘ Higher Level Survey ’ , for which Paul Marginson is responsible , looking at the hitherto neglected area of enterprise-level decision-making in industrial relations . |
| 25 | The label — showing a four-leaf daisy , the twelve stars symbolizing the EC , countries , and the letter " E " — is intended to harmonize standards across the Community and take the place of proliferating national labels and sometimes questionable environmental advertising . |
| 26 | The place of geriatric medicine within the new arrangements for the National Health Service also remains unclear . |
| 27 | If language is seen as increasingly taking the place of explicit negotiation , communication and conscious thought , there is the possibility that , simultaneously , material objects become increasingly important in the formation of the unconscious , a possibility raised by Freud ( though only briefly ) in relation to repressive mechanisms ( e.g. 1984 : 206–8 ) . |
| 28 | Left unremarked in the discussion so far is the irony of the place of criminal punishment in a system which emphasizes conciliatory control based upon compliance . |
| 29 | Today , if we pose the difficult question of the relation of poststructuralism to postmodernism , one distinction between them that might be drawn would be that whereas postmodernism seems to include the problematic of the place of Western culture in relation to non-Western cultures , poststructuralism as a category seems not to imply such a perspective . |
| 30 | Not only that , but in the place of real scientists he had been lumbered with a no-hoper and a child . |