Example sentences of "place as a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a request was made to Thomas Dundas by four of the councillors of Dunfermline who pressed him to use his interest with Lord Sandwich to get Midshipman Ebenezer Fish serving on board the Warwick a place as a lieutenant of marines , since the marine officers were not required to have the years of sea-service demanded of naval lieutenants . |
| 2 | For this reason , instead of joining in the stampede for the latest and newest , I suggest it would be more prudent to wait for a year or two to see if the strawberry blonde holds her place as a glamour queen , or in reality is a blowzy old dame hobbling into the has-beens in the back row of the chorus , where she will find plenty to keep her company . |
| 3 | They had a there was a sort of electric burner in the place as a whole |
| 4 | A very confident performance , which would not have been out of place as a university seminar , but which was not , perhaps , geared to this audience . |
| 5 | His position was at outside-right , although later he occasionally switched wings , and his place as a regular , though unpaid , member of our 1913–14 side tells us that he was a credit to his club and craft because Palace only conceded the Southern League championship to Swindon Town on goal average at the end of a thrilling season . |
| 6 | Thomson was left undisturbed at the Restoration , although he lost his place as a Trinity brother . |
| 7 | This makes Britain in autumn a very special place as a staging post for birds flying further south to the Mediterranean and Africa and as a winter home for many others . |
| 8 | Empty bottles and beer-cans littered the tunnel floor : other people , it seemed , had used this place as a shelter . |
| 9 | But in any reference to useful labour it occupies a significant place as a village where the medieval open field system of farming has survived in some degree . |
| 10 | He was stiff with disapproval at the notion of her carrying buckets of steaming hen mash about the place like any farmer 's daughter in the first place and any chance to cram her back into what he considered her proper place as a lady , he would take . |
| 11 | In 1864 he unexpectedly took his brother 's place as a missionary priest and was sent to Hawaii . |
| 12 | ‘ I see no reason why you do n't use this place as a base . |
| 13 | The locals still used the place as a tip , and piles of old tyres and other junk lay about . |
| 14 | Each of these aspects has its place as a foundation for faith , though the church 's part is not so much essential to faith as an expression of faith . |
| 15 | Rose had come to the dance to claim their place as a couple among the people in this loose , Christmas carnival . |
| 16 | However , X does not appear in the first place as a response to some specific stimulus ( as in the case of a reflex ) , but more or less spontaneously . |
| 17 | Verse 16 : the people 's sin-offering should have been eaten by the priests in the holy place as a sign that God accepted the offering — Aaron 's excuse is not clear , but Moses accepts it . |
| 18 | Anyway , I use this place as a convenience . |
| 19 | His closeness to the king and his enthusiasm for the war would have ensured him a place as a leader of the younger generation of nobles , and his death was yet another misfortune for the king . |
| 20 | London 's place as a world centre for financial and insurance services is pre-eminent ; we intent to keep it that way . |
| 21 | ‘ You should keep more pigs and run the place as a farm , ’ Simon said . |
| 22 | The News International ban was arguably effected along party lines , but it owes its place as a landmark in censorship , and censorship in libraries in particular , to the fact that legislation and hence the State was used to lift censorship rather than to implement it . |
| 23 | An excellent example of the role of a place as a focus of collective identity is provided by one of the major events in British industrial relations in recent decades — the National Union of Mineworkers ' strike of March 1984 to March 1985 . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't see why you 've got to keep this place as a show house , Alison . |
| 25 | My Lord the er case moves on there over the page now to the twenty fourth of September and on that day Mr was notified erm by his bank on the telephone that head office had approved the finance proposal in principal and as a result of that Mr then telephone Peter , the defendant , told him that the financing for this deal had been approved in principal and Mr asked Mr to provide a bankers draft of some seven and a half thousand pounds in order to enable exchange to take place as a matter of urgency . |
| 26 | Then , recovering her composure , she continued , ‘ You 'd be welcome to use this place as a rendezvous , if you understand my meaning , Freddie . |
| 27 | Colonial government is presented as a largely apolitical , administrative business , unrelated to any economic and social changes which might be taking place as a consequence of colonial domination and exploitation ( Eisenstadt 1963 ) . |
| 28 | Transformation of individual structures , as he puts it , does take place directly through participation in the communal life of the sangha , and transformation of social structures takes place as a result of the interaction of the life of the sangha with the life of the community surrounding it . |
| 29 | That shift will take place as a result of three forces . |
| 30 | Learning takes place as a result of these conversations . |