Example sentences of "place of the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In 1860 Birkenhead Improvement Commissioners , who were then operating the ferries , issued metal discs stamped ‘ B'head Ferry ’ to annual contractors in place of the cardboard tickets that had been in use until then .
2 By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them .
3 Having discussed the place of the professional-managerial class in the stratification system , the Ehrenreichs go on to consider the role that it has played in class conflict in the USA over recent decades .
4 The NIBA are going for their fourth successive Under 25 title since the championship took the place of the meaningless Junior Championship in 1990 , and it will be a very hard mission for the PGL to upset the talented Parks side which has tremendous strength in depth .
5 Within that first fraction of potential benefit , I classified the endorsement of ‘ science ’ in place of the separate sciences that have for so long unbalanced or distorted the secondary curriculum ; the opportunity to rethink the nature and role of technology ; and the challenge to begin planning , for all secondary students , a foundation course in a foreign language .
6 Atrophy explains the presence of only a single well-developed anal vein in Anisopus ( Fig. 34 ) and other Diptera , while the occurrence in this genus of a single vein R2+3 , in place of the separate veins R2 and R3 , is due to coalescence .
7 That is to say , in place of the regular ‘ Weidoscope ’ pattern of spots that the regular planes of atoms in a single crystal generate , the diffraction pattern of a glass consists of haloes of uniform intensity ( Figure 1 ) .
8 As in the past , a collection is to be taken up for the Ecclesiastical Students Fund , and this will take the place of the regular second collection .
9 In place of the usual small talk came million-dollar questions such as : ‘ Do you want to buy a MiG jet fighter ? ’ , and ‘ How about a T55 tank or two ? ’
10 In the resulting breed , the body is covered with a short , soft down in place of the usual fur and as the cat grows up this down persists only on the extremities .
11 There is a saying in Yorkshire that ‘ An apple pie without cheese , is like a kiss without a squeeze ’ , and a slice of Wensleydale cheese is often offered in place of the usual cream .
12 They provide you with fibre and healthy nutrients in place of the usual surplus calories , tooth decay and guilt .
13 The second layer can be added as a separate , usually movable , pane inside your existing window ( known as secondary glazing ) , or can be provided by fitting a twin-wall sealed glazing unit in place of the usual single pane .
14 At the meeting , Luigi Zanda , a leading Italian campaigner for Venice and President of the Consorzio Venezia Nuova , made a plea , published here in place of the usual editorial ( see p.1 ) , for the future of Venice to be treated by the Italian government with a new sense of responsibility and morality free from the political factionism which stalemates so much of the country 's public life .
15 29:18 : Jacob offers service in place of the usual marriage gift .
16 In place of the usual 18th-century formality it has a sense of verité that a later age can find reassuringly informative .
17 His one concession to the heat was a grey suit in place of the usual Cabinet Office blue , with a Trinity 1st & 3rd tie .
18 In place of the usual hunt , the handbill says , ‘ there will be an open season on Indians …
19 Could media content continue to be exciting and enjoyable now that it was concerned with the mundane problems of national development in place of the heady business of attacking colonialism ?
20 It seems as though , when the need was felt again for a monument to adorn the last resting place of the rich and great , it was met by monumentalising the only existing art , that of painted pottery .
21 The National Assembly on March 5 unanimously adopted a bill which entitled all Bulgarian citizens freely to choose their own names , and thus allowed ethnic Turks and Pomaks ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) to resume the use of their original names in place of the Slavic names which they had been compelled to adopt during official campaigns of forced assimilation , the Pomaks in the early 1970s and the Turks in 1984-85 .
22 The move is helped by the invention of Mylar , a polyester-based film that takes the place of the brittle acetate — up to that point the only suitable produce for tape recording .
23 In place of the chastened , latter-day apostles of Keynes and Beveridge , a new generation of hard-headed spokesmen of free enterprise emerged , taking their cue from the dogmas of the new Prime Minister herself .
24 Watergate and other traumas could now be put behind them and in place of the paranoid , embittered and beleaguered Richard Nixon there was now a decent and agreeable man in the White House who just might be able to heal America 's wounds and restore faith in the political system .
25 At the same time as the non-past is undergoing this shift , the use of to with the infinitive is being extended beyond its concrete directional sense to cover all cases of subsequent potentiality and subsequent actualization , for which the bare infinitive had formerly been adequate : " … the use of the to infinitive in the place of the bare or plain infinitive increased rapidly during the late Old English and early Middle English periods " ( Visser 1966 : 948 ) .
26 Labour 's economic programme accepted the thrust of the market in allocating social goods and advocated an obviously mixed approach towards economic planning in place of the stereotyped nationalization of 1983 .
27 In place of the spartan simplicity of the original House of the Secession was festive , overly decorative , self indulgence .
28 The rest of the car is regular SE too , apart from the four-speed plus overdrive gearbox , borrowed from the 2.3-litre car , in place of the standard SE 's five-speed item , which ca n't cope with the turbo 's muscle .
29 Back-to-front Unix house Mt Xinu Inc , Berkeley , California has come out with a version of the Mach 3.0 microkernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University as an add-on to its Mach386 product : it runs on Intel 80386 and 80486-based AT-bus computer systems and provides complete Mach 3.0 microkernel source code , a complete build environment which enables users that do not have a detailed knowledge of Carnegie Mellon University system development tools to modify and rebuild the Mach 3.0 kernel , a binary version of a BSD server which makes it possible to run the Mach 3.0 kernel and the BSD server in place of the standard integrated 2.5 Mach kernel provided with Mach386 , source code for many system-specific utilities , which have been modified to operate with Mach 3.0 , and a source-code example of a simple Unix-like server .
30 Negative controls used in place of the primary antibody were either TBS ( control for monoclonal antibodies ) , or normal rabbit immunoglobulins ( control for polyclonal antibodies ) .
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