Example sentences of "place [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But as his success within the Movement , within the German State , and on the international stage grew until it knew no bounds , so the self-deception of the ‘ conviction ’ ideologist magnified to the extent that it ultimately consumed all traces of the calculating and opportunist politician , leaving in its place only a voracious appetite for destruction — and ultimately self-destruction . |
| 2 | It remained in place only a few minutes more , When the Commanding Officer ordered not only a change of the command team which had built it , but a change of design as well . |
| 3 | As a direct consequence of that success , we believe that the inaugural World Sevens , taking place only a few miles from the company headquarters in Perth and with its strong Scottish flavour through its base at Murrayfield , ideally suited for The Famous Grouse . |
| 4 | The old Minpin climbed out of his window and walked straight down the big steeply sloping branch , then up another branch until he found a place only a few inches from Little Billy 's face . |
| 5 | The last exchange of messages took place only a few seconds later when the tower asked the height of the aircraft ; on receiving the reply " 1,400 on the QNH " the tower controller observed : " I think you are to the south of the field " . |
| 6 | But from those earliest days , she had n't believed in the Church at all ; not one scrap , not one iota , and this was why she 'd been so surprised to discover herself in such a place only the previous morning . |
| 7 | The sitters are evidently at their ease , and in the background we see a representation of the Dutch House at Kew , a favourite place just a few miles from London where they could escape from the formalities of public life . |
| 8 | When you talked to judges in the Sixties , they might have told you they did n't happen at all or would be willing to concede that a miscarriage might take place once every 10 years . ’ |
| 9 | If these contracts require consent to assign or novate the purchaser may insist that completion only takes place once a specified number of consents have been given or , in particular , consents in relation to the most important contracts comprising a specified percentage of annual turnover . |
| 10 | Most of the concrete has gone and er well we tried to tidy the place up a little bit . |
| 11 | If you stay in the same place then the whole process of sexual reproduction means that indeed there are uniform populations which are hybridizing with one another and then barriers to other hybridizing population , but not if you move about . |
| 12 | A design revolution which took place around a hundred years ago is being celebrated in a new book about the Cotswolds . |
| 13 | It took place quite a long time ago , it is known as the cessation of the plebs there were two occasions on which the workers of of Ancient Rome and withdrew from the city and their t the terms on which as as far as I recollect the terms of their return where that somebody should write down the law in comprehensible terms and that there should be a special officer , a tribune appointed who could if necessary explain what the law was to them . |
| 14 | Post-interviews with the individual pupils should take place either a short time after the end of the teaching episode , or ( less favourably ) at the end of the lesson . |
| 15 | Further , to argue , as Gandhi does , that progress towards ahi sā must have taken place otherwise the human race would have become extinct by now , in the same way as lower species of animal life have become extinct , is to ignore the principle of natural selection , and the fact that more sophisticated weapons of hi sā are now at man 's disposal making the possibility of his self-destruction and extinction more real today than at any time in the past . |
| 16 | Note that the court could infer the accused had been in a public place where no such direct evidence exists . |
| 17 | If so , the Deverils were still proscribed so why had she been allowed to enter England and , undoubtedly , to travel to Godstowe , a sensitive place where a former royal mistress had been incarcerated . |
| 18 | A place where a certain set of responses still lies perfectly intact . |
| 19 | Insertions are quite simple in B-trees , every leaf corresponds to a place where a new insertion might happen , however deletions are slightly more complicated . |
| 20 | This approach is not always satisfactory because gaps may not be left in the notation at the appropriate place where a new subject belongs . |
| 21 | Perhaps she was : she seemed to let it out in a long , gusty sigh , and walked away from the children , down the track to a place where a flat rock jutted out from the side of the bank . |
| 22 | It also provides a glimpse of Flanders as a place where a substantial number of fighters could be expensively equipped and then encouraged to leave the county for long periods . |
| 23 | Fire , should it occur in a place where a substantial number of people gather , i.e. a bar or a hotel , may have tragic consequences . |
| 24 | The East Gate had been built thousands of years before at a place where a long ridge ran down into the valley causing it to narrow to a hundred yards or less . |
| 25 | It is a place where a great reputation can be won or an existing one extinguished . |
| 26 | It meant that the moor had in the past few days become known not as somewhere unique and beautiful but as the place where a young girl had been killed . |
| 27 | Bernard remembers Changi Jail as being a very austere place where a 24-hour guard duty would involve four hours on and four hours off at a time . |
| 28 | Reggie had owned the Weir House near Alresford , an attractive place where a well-stocked trout stream ran past the cedars on the lawn . |
| 29 | Paris was the intellectual magnet of the mid-twelfth century — the place where a dynamic and promising young man would wish to be . |
| 30 | The entire city represents to him the place where a dead man he 's obsessed with lived . |