Example sentences of "[noun sg] of the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appreciation of the vital place which the Church had in Medieval life is necessary to an understanding of the buildings which we have inherited from this time . |
| 2 | The property had been part of the countess ' lands , and when Risley asked the king 's advice on the matter Edward warned him off : ‘ Risley , meddle not ye with the buying of the said place , for though the title of [ it ] be good in my brother of Gloucester 's hands or in another man 's hands of like might , it will be dangerous to thee to buy it and also to keep it and defend it . ’ |
| 3 | The property had been part of the countess ' lands , and when Risley asked the king 's advice on the matter Edward warned him off : ‘ Risley , meddle not ye with the buying of the said place , for though the title of [ it ] be good in my brother of Gloucester 's hands or in another man 's hands of like might , it will be dangerous to thee to buy it and also to keep it and defend it . ’ |
| 4 | As a result of the central place of class in Marxist theory , as soon as Marxists argue that primitive societies are without class they are left with very little to say about these societies which is in any way distinctive . |
| 5 | Now , a great black car with tinted windows was taking up not only her place but part of the next place too . |
| 6 | However poor , a child who passed the hurdle of the special place examination would get an education which would open up university or further training and , if not that , a white-collar , clean , respectable job — and in many cases an allowance to help with his or her maintenance . |
| 7 | However pleased she was to revel in the shimmersilk robes of garnet and lavender , their perfumed delight was as insubstantial as light through caramel compared with the security of the only place the fresh-born Chesarynth knew — and the gateway to the starscape of meanings called through the tides of her blood . |
| 8 | As they went they heard the clatter of feet in the porch of the church , and voices that spoke in reverent undertones , but not from awe of the holy place . |
| 9 | It took the puritan fanatics to destroy these high spirits and mockery , which led inevitably to long periods of repression with its back-street prostitution of women and young boys , one of the many ‘ hidden ’ elements in Victorian society and , what was equally lamentable , the denial of the rightful place of women in society . |
| 10 | Not desiring to defile the wall of the consecrated place , I went round the corner to spit into the gutter . |
| 11 | Geographers are familiar with the concept of the central place — a locally or regionally important centre fulfilling a number of functions for the settlements around . |
| 12 | The character of the whole place is best assessed by walking down from the castle rather than climbing east to west . |
| 13 | As the final sentence of the chapter puts it , The belief which inspires every paragraph of the present Report is that this much-desired spiritual unity in the nation and the equally necessary uplift in the whole level of the popular imagination can only come through a general acknowledgement of the paramount place which the native speech and literature should occupy in our schools and in the common life of our people . |
| 14 | Education ha ooh I never know what the address of the stupid place is ! |
| 15 | For Klein , the equivalent of the central place of symbolism in Piagetian analysis is the concept or phantasy , which is the form taken by all the mechanisms so far described . |
| 16 | Creggan felt even more afraid , not of the strangeness and unfamiliarity of the dreadful place to which he had been brought , but of the eagle in the cage next to his . |
| 17 | In the quiet of the huge place the horse performed like a champion and Felipe looked like another person from the man she now knew . |
| 18 | Other people see it as a corruption of the French place name , Ronceval , where , it is believed , the spoons were first made . |
| 19 | Bored with the assertion of the central place of boredom in human affairs , he wrote . |
| 20 | I rambled aimlessly for about an hour , in and out of dirty narrow streets , their only saving grace being their brevity , in and out of a variety of shops , bought some oranges from the market stalls , the most interesting feature of the wretched place , then went in to see an ‘ explicit sex ’ film and was presented with a badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film which I left within the first fifteen minutes . |
| 21 | Salim is now homeless in the sense that he has shed an old tendency to nostalgia : ‘ the idea of going home , of leaving , the idea of the other place ’ , he takes to be weakening and destructive . |