Example sentences of "place by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The real issue was put in possibly the best speech that I have heard in this place by the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) last night . |
| 2 | Atoms consist of a densely packed positively charged nucleus encircled by negatively charged electrons all held in place by the electrical attraction of opposite charges . |
| 3 | An earlier Neville connection is implied by the marriage of Roger 's sister Alice to Thomas Metcalfe , a match which must have taken place by the mid 1460s . |
| 4 | An earlier Neville connection is implied by the marriage of Roger 's sister Alice to Thomas Metcalfe , a match which must have taken place by the mid 1460s . |
| 5 | Labour held Hemsworth , where the Conservatives were beaten into third place by the Liberal Democrats . |
| 6 | The process of conception as such is not affected , and the scientist no more ‘ creates ’ a baby than does the obstetrician who performs a Caesarean section , an operation which has saved the lives of countless mothers and babies in situations where birth could not take place by the natural route . |
| 7 | Through the 1930s and 1940s the habit quickly spread through Britain , at far too fast a rate for it to have taken place by the natural selection of Mendelian genes ( Figure 3.12 ) . |
| 8 | Mass rallies commemorating Azerbaijanis killed in Baku in January were permitted to take place by the military authorities controlling the city . |
| 9 | Often Cerberus , the remotest and most difficult task , is made the climax , but here it is pushed into penultimate place by the local legend . |