Example sentences of "place of a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For if he should say ‘ I leave him this ’ or ‘ I commend ’ , because these are direct words , they can not have the place of a trust . |
| 2 | A central Government contribution will remain , along with a reformed business rate , but in place of a levy on the value of a person 's home , individuals within a house will be required to pay a community charge , more accurately described as a poll tax . |
| 3 | A useful example is the erection in a prominent place of a parents ' notice board where details of sales , wants , baby sitters , child minders , community activities , thank you letters , etc are displayed . |
| 4 | In place of a fall from grace which is ultimately to be followed by a return to Paradise , we have the notion that mankind originally evolved out of a sub-human stage of bestiality . |
| 5 | The funeral 's taken place of a pensioner killed in his own home . |
| 6 | The funeral has taken place of a pilot whose Spitfire crashed onto a runway at an airshow , exploding into flames . |
| 7 | Beer line systems have a pressurised detergent solution vessel which takes the place of a keg and use the pumps and controls of the beer dispense equipment with a standing period . |
| 8 | So again , it 's a thing which you might consider when you 're er letting vehicles come in front and er I the rights and wrongs of erm flashing lights , er really the only flashing lights should take the place of a horn . |
| 9 | On the left were two gold lions rampant , on the right a dainty white unicorn with a golden arrow in place of a horn . |
| 10 | ‘ This slightly altered and unique version , showing twin lions and a unicorn with a golden arrow in place of a horn , he had specially made . |
| 11 | The furniture , scanty as it is , would n't fill the back of an Okie pick-up fleeing the dustbowl in The Grapes of Wrath : a stained wooden table , a couple of shelves and half a dozen kitchen chairs , an armchair with the padding leaking out of it , and an old car seat that has been dragged in , probably some years ago , to serve in place of a settee . |
| 12 | the alphabetical index which provides an entry vocabulary or a list of terms for first consultation , as well as identification of the place of a subject within the scheme . |
| 13 | This procedure is indicative of a fundamental difference in determining the place of a person in society . |
| 14 | As I approached the bead curtain that hung in place of a door , I was aware of movement behind the strands of wood beads , a rhythmical rising and falling , murmuring , sighing . |
| 15 | On 31 October 1605 he was by-elected for Evesham , taking the place of a man who had been an Exchequer colleague of one of his Bowyer cousins . |
| 16 | In place of a unity of time came the notion of discrete temporalities , with a recognition of a historicity proper to each discipline or area of knowledge . |
| 17 | The body was moved once more to make the pockets accessible and Fox searched them — there were only those in his trousers ; he was wearing a cardigan in place of a jacket . |
| 18 | On the same day the first reading took place of a bill to merge the Ministries of Defence and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps into a single Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics [ for merger of Ministries in August Cabinet reshuffle see p. 36859 ] . |
| 19 | Although the 1624 Act against letting an individual hold a monopoly meant that no businessman could take the place of a trading company , there was no reason why an individual should not hold a charter as a great landlord . |
| 20 | In place of a sermon there was a time of quiet in which women present spoke to the theme of ‘ creation ’ , some from the perspective of giving birth . |
| 21 | The primary system was adopted in 1992 , in place of a system of simple plurality ( first-past-the-post ) , in order to prevent a candidate from winning executive office with less than 50 per cent of the vote ( Etpison having been elected in 1988 , against six rival candidates , with only 26 per cent of the total vote ) . |
| 22 | On more than one occasion he had had to remove a dead dog from the highway and take it in his barrow to the incinerator , and there were times when he had to take the place of a night watchman who had been taken ill on one of the larger roadworks and stay there until he could be relieved . |
| 23 | Imagine what those bitches might put on the end of that piston rod in place of a dildo , what agonising liquid they could have squirted into you by that pressure pump . |
| 24 | Most of us are used to the familiar Baker Street landmark now , its squat green ( copper ) dome topped with a disconcertingly transparent Saturn in the place of a weather vane . |
| 25 | The funeral has taken place of a student who died in a mysterious barn fire nine months ago . |
| 26 | There are many techniques of archaeological interpretation , and several layers at which interpretation is necessary , from sorting out the structural sequence of excavated buildings to assessing the place of a nation in world history . |
| 27 | However , the pattern is changing , and one recent development is the introduction of camcorders which have power-zoom toggles but no manual zoom lever ; another change is the substitution of toggle-switches in place of a focus ring . |
| 28 | Chuck Moxon drove , his colleague beside him operated the direction-finder ( D/F ) receiver , a small box like a miniature television , save that on the screen in place of a picture was a single glowing dot . |
| 29 | But sources claim that in place of a family atmosphere , a more mainstream business mentality is setting in . |
| 30 | The system developed aims to provide a three-dimensional means of manipulating a virtual reality scene , with a pen-type stylus used in place of a mouse . |