Example sentences of "[prep] place at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Taking pride of place at the Help the Aged Golden Awards in the Hilton Hotel was Madeleine Noble , 59 , from Tempo , Co Fermanagh , who met the Princess .
2 The organiser , too , is a woman … though she 'd rather give pride of place at the air display to another female — Sally B , a B-17 bomber , star of the film Memphis Belle .
3 It will take pride of place at the series of steam weekends in Darlington which start on May 23 .
4 It will have pride of place at the series of steam weekends in Darlington which start May 23 .
5 Early in 1983 the new Bomber Command Hall extension had been completed and Sugar was moved the few yards to take pride of place at the entrance to the exhibition , where she still is today .
6 This passage is given pride of place at the start of the title on trusts in UE , but it is not a very laudable analysis of the notion of a trust .
7 Straight away the units were fixed into place at the back of the school building .
8 The now defunct sluice gates are still in place at the head of the race , which is much higher than the Ell Brook .
9 It is therefore essential that the control mechanisms for each are put in place at the beginning of the design stage .
10 The new stone signs are now in place at the Groves Road and Castletown Road entrances , lending lustre to the Village , and negotiations are in hand to do the same at the Nursing Home end in the near future .
11 The range of policies needed to counter the root causes that have given rise to the underclass and keep it firmly in place at the bottom of the social hierarchy are examined in Part IV .
12 Make it secure and tight , and sew in place at the finish
13 Top quality mattresses are also hand side-stitched — this will look like rows of dimples around the borders to hold the springs firmly in place at the edges and to strengthen the border .
14 This time the District Councils collect it from Community Charges payers , and whether you had a rating systems in place at the moment , or whether you have Community Charge , Bob and his high spending friends would still have to rein in their expenditure and recognise that the people of Oxfordshire can not keep paying for his profligacy .
15 Thus many of the elements of the familiar Victorian pub were already in place at the time of William IV 's death in 1837 .
16 The JDS has to apply the regulations in place at the time of the alleged offence , Institute professional conduct director Brian Harris said .
17 The windows were also provided with louvred shutters which could be removed and stored when not in use ; these shutters may have been in place at the time of capture .
18 A key aspect of the methodology used to estimate population trends was the assumption that policies in place at the time of the analysis would continue .
19 That is the two hundred million that I was referring to er , earlier , was n't in place at the time that we made our write there .
20 Adequate safety measures stipulated by the Indian government were not in place at the time of the accident , according to the documents , which state that the accident was due to " sheer negligence " .
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