Example sentences of "[adj] place [prep] [art] [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it was perhaps significant that after such a surrender , chief executive Venables was compelled to leave the comfort of the directors ' box to take his old place in the coaches ' dug-out . |
| 2 | They had offered Dalglish an emotional welcome when he emerged before the game and took an unfamiliar place on the visitors ' bench . |
| 3 | This means that the original parish registers are usually housed in a different place from the bishop 's transcripts which are kept at the record office of the appropriate ancient diocese . |
| 4 | For an old-age pensioner , a warm place on a winter 's afternoon . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Striker Tony Cascarino , Townsend 's former clubmate at Stamford Bridge , also has a hamstring problem and may have to forego his usual place on the substitutes ' bench . |
| 7 | As one of London 's best-known Indian restaurants , this was the natural place for the politicians ' Curry Club to be launched . |
| 8 | After his death in 1151 , the leading place in the king 's council was taken once more by the royal chancellor , Hugh de Champfleuri , bishop of Soissons . |
| 9 | Women and girls would appear in droves , dressed in their carefully planned outfits , to promenade slowly past the smart Caffè Bizzi , a beautiful shiny place like an Aladdin 's Cave , of a sort that is now almost extinct in Italy . |
| 10 | Bill senior , who will celebrate his 90th birthday on 25 August , has the unique place in the company 's history of being the last employee to continue working at the old Etruria factory . |
| 11 | St Bernards had placed a fee on this transfer should he go to a Football League club so Palace had to settle with them and with Kettering , but his eminent place in the club 's history assures us that if Palace had had to pay a dozen clubs , it would have been money well spent . |
| 12 | Indonesia is regarded as a core area , with a key place in the Group 's business portfolio . |
| 13 | A most useful dictionary ( although not called such ) for the country historian , a copy of which has an honoured place in the author 's library , is Old Country and Farming Words by James Britten ( The English Dialect Society , London 1880 ) . |
| 14 | ‘ That new Italian place in the King 's Road , ’ Miranda murmured . |
| 15 | The matter was first drawn to our attention as far back as 1974 when the nuclear industry inspectorate 's chief inspector said this about the consequences of developing reprocessing in the United Kingdom : ’ The price for Britain of building lucrative business world-wide in nuclear fuel services could be that it becomes the dumping place for the world 's nuclear waste . ’ |
| 16 | However , just as at a certain place on the earth 's surface we can still call ‘ down' ’ the direction towards the centre of the earth , so a living organism that finds itself in such a world at a certain period of time can define the ‘ direction ’ of time as going from the less probable state to the more probable ( the former will be the ‘ Past' ’ and the latter the ‘ Future' ’ ) and by virtue of the definition he will find that his own small region , isolated from the rest of the universe , is ‘ initially' ’ always in an improbable state . |
| 17 | Pembroke was well placed to speak for those who wanted a more vigorous and successful war : he had a special place in the king 's affections , and he had acquitted himself well in Aquitaine . |
| 18 | Staveley B1 61312 holds a special place in the writer 's memory . |