Example sentences of "place [prep] the great " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1712 , Atkyns describes a scene of great activity and speaks of Chalford as ‘ a remarkable place for the great number of clothing mills and the great quantity of cloth made there in the neighbourhood ’ . |
| 2 | Sir , the pond in D thirty nine has been shown to be a breeding place for the Great Crested Newt , but it is also known that it migrates to other ponds , several others , but does not necessarily breed there , but chooses at Skelton . |
| 3 | All these marriages took place during the Great War and it is a matter of generation more than anything else if the groom was a serviceman . |
| 4 | In place of the great Moscow or Kolomna merchant , the Nizhny Novogorod miller , the Moscow flax or hemp-factory owner , the large export wholesaler , and the old ‘ flour dealers ’ , the railroad stations now swarmed with a mass of small traders , exporters , and commission merchants , all buying grain , hemp , hides , lard , sheepskin , down and bristles — in a word , everything bound for either the domestic or the foreign market . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Perhaps some asteroid , nudged out of its place in the great gravitational gavotte , would fall to Earth ; a bullet into a face , obliterating . |
| 7 | The ball took place in the Great Room at Grosvenor House . |
| 8 | The transaction had taken place in the great Cistercian abbey of Fossanova which , due to its important position , Innocent was always very careful to treat with much favour . |
| 9 | In fact one of the things that 's most disturbed me about some of the recent discussions that have taken place in the great debate has been that on the one hand people have talked about educating people for adult life and learning more about the way people earn their living , learning more about industry , more about productive things , and on the other hand they 've been talking about maintaining standards . |
| 10 | Do n't Climb Out Of The Window now has pride of place alongside the great authors at Blackwells bookshop in Oxford . |
| 11 | Certainly it could not find a place within the great authoritarian scheme by which Christian society was ordered . |
| 12 | King 's Lynn was one of the busiest seaports in the country in the Middle Ages , and although the sea has receded , leaving the town inland , it is still a busy place on the Great Ouse . |
| 13 | Taken at its first test session at Michelin 's Clermont Ferrand test track , they show the car still under heavy disguise but revealing some of the characteristics that should give it a place among the great supercars . |
| 14 | The second Test in Paris left Muller one cap ahead of Helgard and exhibiting the promise to take his place among the great Springbok names which punctuate rugby legend . |
| 15 | Find your place among the great — aut Caesar , aut nihil ! ’ |
| 16 | It read : ‘ I am convinced that British manufacturing industry can prosper again in the Nineties and restore Britain 's place among the great industrial nations of the world . ’ |