Example sentences of "place at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keast , who was just able to recall the Jubilee celebrations for George III in 1810 taking place at the Bullers ' home at Shillingham , was to officiate at Queen 's Victoria 's Golden Jubilee celebrations in 1887 at the age of 84 . |
| 2 | The lover 's certainty that his love was the source of everything good and worthwhile in his life — the belief which lay behind the radiantly lyrical love poems of Bernard de Ventadour , some of which were composed at the court of Henry II and Eleanor — was a belief which gave to woman , as man 's partner and sometimes , in this context at least , the dominant partner , a place at the heart of things which had not been hers before . |
| 3 | THE EXTENT of the philosophical shift taking place at the top of the Metropolitan Police was illustrated in a speech delivered by Sir Peter Imbert to the International Police Exhibition and Conference in London at the end of September . |
| 4 | Victory would have secured Jarryd his place at the top of the points table , a feat worth £110,000 . |
| 5 | I took my place at the top of a walkway between the orchestra , the curtains opened and a lush sigh from the string section led the intro of ‘ Memories ’ . |
| 6 | Having secured miners ' place at the top of the manual wages league , there was nowhere for that economism to go . |
| 7 | Currently this competes with the Tithonian ( discussed in Chapter One ) for a place at the top of the jurassic . |
| 8 | He and Broughton carried the dead body of Hilary Frome from its resting place at the top of the stairs , and laid it on the bed in the sick bay . |
| 9 | Having established the tone , Procul Harum duly yielded their place at the top of the charts to the Beatles , who settled on the essence of that summer with ‘ All You Need Is Love ’ , to be followed by Scott McKenzie 's ‘ San Francisco ’ , which was , millions of radios announced , the place to be to skip the light fandango , and where all one needed was love . |
| 10 | In the past , drugs firms could rely on innovation for success : one blockbuster drug was enough to win a place at the top of the pharmaceutical league table . |
| 11 | The steps taken to field a team who would maintain the Premier Division side 's place at the top of Group A in the European Champions League were costly only in terms of the gamble that |
| 12 | Members of the national and specialist press attended the launch of Head 's new Anatom System tennis shoe , which took place at the Roehampton Club during April . |
| 13 | An open exercise session takes place at the Landsdowne Centre for Physically Handicapped People , Landsdowne Road , Middlesbrough , on Wednesday , from 3.15 pm to 4.15 pm , with a trained physiotherapist . |
| 14 | The boy had just started work when a raid took place at the newsagents where he worked . |
| 15 | Although the recruiter had obviously bathed , he still exuded the faint mustiness of the habitual opium smoker as he pressed past Duclos to take his place at the breakfast table . |
| 16 | The Prince of Wales has offered to take her place at the service if necessary . |
| 17 | The horse trading , or rather fish trading , that takes place at the Council meetings and other times — the talks with EFTA and the quota swaps — are all very well and sometimes seem to work to our advantage . |
| 18 | The now defunct sluice gates are still in place at the head of the race , which is much higher than the Ell Brook . |
| 19 | Eden , naturally , took Churchill 's place at the head of the Defence Committee , and the list of ad hoc committees he chaired reflects both his appetites and the intrinsic importance of their subject matter : GEN 502 on the supply of military aircraft ; GEN 503 on security in Cyprus ; GEN 506 on preparations for the meeting of foreign ministers of France , the UK , USSR and USA in Geneva in October 1955 ; and GEN 511 on a third Indian steel plant . |
| 20 | In taking his place at the head of the Second Crusade , the Rex Francorum decisively hastened the transformation of the Franks into the French . |
| 21 | Sarah resented me , even my place at the head of the table , and gave orders to the servants over my head . |
| 22 | As Harry sat down in the chair Martha indicated , he glanced at Will , who , looking rather hot and red-faced , was now taking his place at the head of the table . |
| 23 | Shelley looked across at Abuelo , sitting in his usual place at the head of the table . |
| 24 | A similar rite seems to have taken place at the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus . |
| 25 | She heard him being pushed from his place at the keyhole . |
| 26 | On January 24 1987 a demonstration with 12,000 to 15,000 demonstrators took place at the premises of newspaper proprietors in Wapping and there were many arrests . |
| 27 | A meeting then took place at the border on Nov. 8 between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the then Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki , first on the German side at Frankfurt an der Oder and then across the river at Slubice ( part of pre-1945 Frankfurt ) . |
| 28 | These final exchanges were to have taken place at the border town of Mundhiriya from March 14 , but did not in the event go ahead as scheduled . |
| 29 | Prague 's second famous defenestration took place at the Hradčany Castle when Bohemian Protestants again thought themselves threatened in 1618 . |
| 30 | Lucky Draw winner David Owen of Waterloo and his partner will be rubbing shoulders with the stars and sharing anecdotes no doubt with the big names and personalities at the awards lunch taking place at the Blundellsands Hotel . |