Example sentences of "place [conj] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there are other rewards , although normally not quite so powerful , such as affection , or caressing or scratching the horse , especially on its chest or neck or some other place that the individual horse may particularly like . |
| 2 | The place that the High Kings and Queens had called Medchuarta . |
| 3 | If you 've got a coil you 're just making your womb into such an uncomfortable place that the little things with a will to live ca n't actually live there . ’ |
| 4 | He gathered his cloak and entered the bailey , a calmer place than the previous day . |
| 5 | It is normal practice , subject to negotiation , for contracts to be executed on the basis that completion will only take place once the relevant consents have been obtained or approvals given . |
| 6 | The identification of the extra meanings mentioned above can only take place once the initial sentences have been in themselves understood . |
| 7 | Coleridge suggests that such mental creation can take place if the conscious and subconscious minds are combined , because only then can a mind truly understand itself and its own existence . |
| 8 | No excavation took place until the bored piles were in position . |
| 9 | In the plant world new growth can not take place until the old has died and dropped away . |
| 10 | The cordon , supported by joint mobile patrols from the RUC and other elements of the battalion , remained in place until the whole area was declared clear at 1600 hours on 30 June , and responsibility for operations in the area was handed back to the police . |
| 11 | There was a ‘ For Sale ’ sign outside , and at the time I was beginning to contemplate leaving Baldersdale — half of me wanted a more suitable place and the other half was telling me to stop at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 12 | The theatre can be a risky place and the entire staff have to be on their guard . |
| 13 | Diana was not so enthused by the architecture , which Charles delighted in , but there was no doubting the warmth of the welcome — they were greeted everywhere as ‘ Carlo e De ’ — and the sheer beauty of the place and the warm weather lifted everyone 's spirits after an English winter . |
| 14 | The 1824 Act repealing the Combination Laws had , as politicians and trade unionists were very well aware , been " smuggled through " the House by Place and the Radical MP Joseph Hume by dint of persistent lobbying and political manipulation . |
| 15 | The difference with Burton came from the scale on which he did it , the talents he gambled , the colossal winnings , the rupturing losses , the public glare in which increasingly it took place and the undeniable fact that in the middle of this maelstrom was always a quiet , reading man whom Cis would have recognised with relief as the boy sitting beside the fire , buried in a book . |
| 16 | It 's an amazing place and the perfect base for Club 18–30 . |
| 17 | Once the final length of cladding is in place and the protective film has been removed , the job is complete . |
| 18 | The learning programme and learning tasks ( possibilities of adapting these to the needs gauged , so that learning can take place and the therapeutic potential of the curriculum be utilised ( no matter how nationally prescribed ) . |
| 19 | Normalisation is the process of transforming data into well formed or natural groupings such that one fact is in one place and the correct relationships between facts exist . |
| 20 | After that no further swelling takes place and the additional water simply adds , very considerably , to the weight of the wood . |
| 21 | In emergency situations , it seemed , constitutional niceties had no place and the chief executive had to be allowed a free hand , an ominous precedent that was to be followed by a series of major military initiatives by presidents with little or no regard to the war power of congress . |
| 22 | We have seen how important it is for the retailer to choose the right place and the right product . |
| 23 | For one thing , the sheer range and historical variation of the sites where encounters between ‘ white ’ and ‘ other ’ have taken place and the immense variety of specialized and popular discourses that have operated in these encounters have by now put into circulation a multitude of selective images . |
| 24 | Dear brother , let me out of this awful place and the blessed Virgin will reward you . |
| 25 | Conversion of this space has yet to take place and the unlined timber skeleton of the boarded external-wall construction of the upper storeys remains on view to the interior , awaiting its insulation and internal finishes . |
| 26 | Much development was taking place and the old landmarks were fast disappearing , so he realised it must be done with some urgency . |
| 27 | According to his plans , the old Kunsthalle will remain in its place but the adjacent ugly exhibition buildings of the Sixties will replaced by an elegant showcase à la Ungers . |
| 28 | The team is now in place but the total reorganisation task has been expensive and operational efficiency has suffered during the process of change . |
| 29 | It is impossible with our conscious mind to fully know what we feel about this place but the Gothic tale can set in motion atavistic fears and fantasies . |
| 30 | The professional people and the wealthy tradesmen ran the place but the characteristic figures in the town were the shopkeepers and the craftsmen . |