Example sentences of "place a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the next few months , Washington is going to try to transform the economic and regulatory environment of health care ( 13% of the economy ) , enact the most sweeping changes in the tax code since 1986 , lock into place a substantial reduction of the deficit and enact a five-year $165 billion ‘ investment ’ package in education , health care and infrastructure . |
| 2 | He quickly engineered the overthrow of the Conservative and Anglican majorities on the town council and the school board and put in place a political machine which carried all before it for well over a decade . |
| 3 | Quitting England , the two moved into the abandoned eighteenth-century château Castille in Provence which they renovated The pictures were Douglas 's and the furniture was mine ’ , says Richardson and in a few years , Cooper and Richardson made the place a private museum and shrine to Cubism and its creators , and where Picasso , Leger and Braque were frequent visitors . |
| 4 | This challenge to ‘ universalism ’ need not pose in its place a simple relativism or a mere piling up of empirical descriptions . |
| 5 | There was no light except hard bars of sunlight shafting almost horizontally through the broken windows , and the concrete floor gave the place a gloomy chill even on that evening . |
| 6 | Nothing had been disturbed here — although the air of desertion and my timid light lent the place a sinister aspect . |
| 7 | Three months after becoming prime minister , he is already putting in place a vast programme to privatise the state-owned businesses that have been a drag on the country since they were nationalised by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in the early 1970s . |
| 8 | But worse is that it comes at the very moment Davies and Jeff Young , the WRU technical director , and forward-looking others have put into place a representative structure designed to facilitate the flow of full international candidates . |
| 9 | In its place a unified system of primary , secondary and further education was set up . |
| 10 | Isaac Walton , Donne 's biographer , relates the tale : ‘ Several charcoal fires being first madde in his large study , he brought with him into that place a winding sheet in his hand , and having put off all his clothes , had this sheet put on him , and so tied with knots at his head and feet , and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted , to be shrouded and put into their coffin , or grave … with his eyes shut and with so much of the sheet turned aside as might show his lean , pale and death-like face . ’ |
| 11 | It will be of interest to see whether the reasoning is applied to the courts ' powers of review ; if this took place a general right to reasoned decisions would have evolved . |
| 12 | The Supreme Soviet on June 14 passed what was in effect the country 's first corporate taxation law , setting in place a crucial element of market economic reform . |
| 13 | But now there was in place a plebiscitary system ; the total number of presidential primaries had risen sharply , thereby substantially increasing popular participation in the selection of delegates and further weakening the power of party leaders . |
| 14 | Working together , we must design and gradually put into place a new architecture for a new era . |
| 15 | By noon on the same day , it is hue , the Government had accepted that there had been a slight set-back and that the European Communities Bill would have to be put temporarily on ice , but almost immediately they conceived and put into place a new plan . |
| 16 | His league 's annual meeting at Mountain Rangers clubhouse at Rhosgadfan had been expected to put in place a new stipulation to limit one player to one club . |
| 17 | Sultan Mahmud I ( 1730–54 ) attempted to disband the janissaries and to put in their place a modern force , modelled on the standing armies of his European enemies . |
| 18 | Gone was the lively , glowing girl of the morning , in her place a pasty ghost . |
| 19 | Miss Hawarth likewise procured several paying guests , moving Wilson to declare she could not imagine why any lady would wish to lodge in her poorly decorated and furnished house when they might find themselves a place a good deal more attractive and comfortable . |
| 20 | ‘ Nonsense , ’ Veronica replied , ‘ we can give the place a good airing before we go . ’ |
| 21 | He also put in place a long-term programme of staff development . |
| 22 | There , I crossed the ancient Monnow Bridge and rode up the broad main street to Agincourt Square , where colourful umbrellas set before the inns give the place a continental air . |
| 23 | Unemployment was a problem right across Europe , he said , and the Government had put in place a comprehensive system of training and employment schemes ‘ unmatched in the history of this country ’ . |
| 24 | At the back of the fort they diverted the Jumna and laid in its place a main road so that the delicate Mughal pavilions look out , not on to the source of the Waters of Paradise , but on to Mahatma Gandhi Marg , the most noisy and polluted stretch of the Delhi Ring Road . |
| 25 | Constitutional amendments formally to set in place a multiparty system were still pending , however : they were passed unanimously by the Federal Chamber on Aug. 8 , and it was hoped to secure the necessary ratification by the assemblies of the republics and provinces by Sept. 20 . |
| 26 | Awaited since the Communist Party ( CPSU ) renounced its constitutionally guaranteed " leading role " in March , the law formally set in place a multiparty system . |
| 27 | This was first proposed in 1974 but when the Environmental Protection Bill becomes law , the UK will be the first European country to put in place a national system of integrated control The importance of IPC is that it aims to treat the environment as it is : an inter-related system where pollutants can be exchanged between air , water and land . |
| 28 | The results confirmed that anti-Congress feelings in the north had not waned since November 1989 , when northern voters had turned against the central government of Rajiv Gandhi , electing in its place a National Front coalition led by V. P. Singh [ see pp. 37030-31 ] . |
| 29 | They gave the place a summery look , an ironic note considering the winter that cloaked them both . |
| 30 | I 'd call this place a hole-in-the-wall operation . |