Example sentences of "place [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roskilde was an important town in the Middle Ages , a royal residence , and the cathedral was used as the burial place for the Danish kings . |
| 2 | Yet this was no place for the faint hearted , and Jimmy knew it . |
| 3 | It is not a place for the faint hearted or those who swoon easily : such are advised to remain in the safety of the car . |
| 4 | On the contrary Olson is to be praised in the first place for the relentless hostility with which he presses the charge home : |
| 5 | In fact any subject matter can be examined and taught with a significant resource-based component , although as in our examples above there is likely always to be an important place for the directed expository lesson , whether " lead " or otherwise . |
| 6 | This is the place for the complete angler ; for the fisherman who loves the wild , distant places of Scotland . |
| 7 | I thought it was a place for the aged and moribund — St Cemetery's-on-Sea ! ’ |
| 8 | During this operation , the market was not a place for the general public . |
| 9 | This was no place for the frail ball player . |
| 10 | At home , Marks & Spencer is considered the most sensible place for the middle class to shop . |
| 11 | Despite all the barriers and disadvantages encountered in the movement to a market economy , there is already an infrastructure in place for the future development of a music industry . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | After his talks with Wörner , Walesa said that Poland did not intend to apply for NATO membership and stressed that a place for the Soviet Union needed to be found within Europe 's security system . |
| 15 | In the House of Commons Sir Edward Boyle argued similarly the case for a ‘ continuing place for the non-autonomous sector within our national system of higher education ’ , but , he reflected , ‘ I was careful to preach no ‘ doctrine of eternal separation ’ , as Lord Robbins called it' . |
| 16 | There is unlikely to be a place for the blond-haired Effenberg despite his good performance at the European Championship finals . |
| 17 | This means that the registering and monitoring arrangements need to be changed and that the statutory authorities need to establish through the joint planning mechanisms a way of incorporating these changes , that health and local authorities need to create a place for the private sector in the planning progress and that the role of bodies like the Mental Welfare Commission , the Hospital Advisory Service , the health councils needs to be extended to encompass and specifically address the whole business of monitoring the provision in the private sector in so far as it 's supported by public funds . |
| 18 | There are now hopes that Trysil , a densely-forested area abounding in roe deer and elk — but remote from domestic livestock — could be an ideal place for the Norwegian wolves to live . |
| 19 | At Stade Roland Garros , the Centre Court temperature is rarely like to be less than 100 degrees F. The sunbaked concrete and clay cauldron is no place for the weak kneed or willed . |
| 20 | We may spread the bread of life with caviar , and smoke the sides of salmon to toast the fisherman of Galilee , and turn the water into the best claret , but we can not guarantee He will sit at our table unless we have laid a place for the poor , the outcast , the hungry and the friendless . |
| 21 | He was handed his first full England cap against France in February and shut out Eric Cantona so comprehensively that he held his place for the European Championship finals . |
| 22 | But in addition the British government went along with the er demand by the French government that they should recognise Strasbourg as a meeting place for the European parliament in perpetuity . |
| 23 | That the European parliament in fact led by Conservative members of the European parliament very often on this issue had argued strongly that Brussels should be a single meeting place for the European parliament . |
| 24 | ‘ It will be very difficult , though , to win a place for the European Championships in Sweden . |
| 25 | The local meeting place for the young people ‘ out of school ’ was at one Mrs Ances 's , whose house is now part of Lilleygarth Farm . |
| 26 | Its primary purpose is to provide a place for the young people of the Diocese to spend time together to develop their faith and to offer training programmes for those in parishes working with young people . |
| 27 | The lily pads are a dangerous place for the young jacana chicks as the lake is full of predators that prey on eggs and chicks — fish , lizards , snakes , young crocodiles as well as predatory birds . |
| 28 | The member of parliament did not give up his efforts to find a place for the young officer , but the close connection between parliamentary politics and placement was made abundantly clear by Scott 's insistence to his correspondent that the young man 's father , a Dundee councillor , would first have to make clear ‘ whether he is to be friendly ’ to the politician . |
| 29 | But when Hannah was a girl , chapel was a place for the young and energetic , for people who wanted their voices to be heard . |
| 30 | It 's a well-known therapy in places like mental hospitals and prisons and has a place for the elderly as well . |