Example sentences of "place and the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fertilization can then take place and the first cell divisions can occur . |
| 2 | There was a ‘ For Sale ’ sign outside , and at the time I was beginning to contemplate leaving Baldersdale — half of me wanted a more suitable place and the other half was telling me to stop at Low Birk Hatt . |
| 3 | Diana was not so enthused by the architecture , which Charles delighted in , but there was no doubting the warmth of the welcome — they were greeted everywhere as ‘ Carlo e De ’ — and the sheer beauty of the place and the warm weather lifted everyone 's spirits after an English winter . |
| 4 | The 1824 Act repealing the Combination Laws had , as politicians and trade unionists were very well aware , been " smuggled through " the House by Place and the Radical MP Joseph Hume by dint of persistent lobbying and political manipulation . |
| 5 | The difference with Burton came from the scale on which he did it , the talents he gambled , the colossal winnings , the rupturing losses , the public glare in which increasingly it took place and the undeniable fact that in the middle of this maelstrom was always a quiet , reading man whom Cis would have recognised with relief as the boy sitting beside the fire , buried in a book . |
| 6 | It 's an amazing place and the perfect base for Club 18–30 . |
| 7 | Once the final length of cladding is in place and the protective film has been removed , the job is complete . |
| 8 | The learning programme and learning tasks ( possibilities of adapting these to the needs gauged , so that learning can take place and the therapeutic potential of the curriculum be utilised ( no matter how nationally prescribed ) . |
| 9 | After that no further swelling takes place and the additional water simply adds , very considerably , to the weight of the wood . |
| 10 | In emergency situations , it seemed , constitutional niceties had no place and the chief executive had to be allowed a free hand , an ominous precedent that was to be followed by a series of major military initiatives by presidents with little or no regard to the war power of congress . |
| 11 | We have seen how important it is for the retailer to choose the right place and the right product . |
| 12 | For one thing , the sheer range and historical variation of the sites where encounters between ‘ white ’ and ‘ other ’ have taken place and the immense variety of specialized and popular discourses that have operated in these encounters have by now put into circulation a multitude of selective images . |
| 13 | Dear brother , let me out of this awful place and the blessed Virgin will reward you . |
| 14 | ‘ Friends who want the same place and the same wife , ’ the pretty girl replied . |
| 15 | Conversion of this space has yet to take place and the unlined timber skeleton of the boarded external-wall construction of the upper storeys remains on view to the interior , awaiting its insulation and internal finishes . |
| 16 | Incomprehensibly , there seem to be as many spotters now in the days of dull diesels and anonymous electrics as there were when we were train-spotters in the last years of steam and the trains bore names like Bihar and Orissa , Baroda , Indore , Drake , Camperdown , and Barfleur , names redolent of history and tradition , summoning up fragrant images of far-off places and the martial rattle of distant centuries . |
| 17 | While much of the attention during the weeks leading up to the Ryder Cup was pointed at the race to clinch places and the relative form of the players involved , one man , unconcerned with the battle of The Belfry , was playing better golf than anyone . |
| 18 | In nature the green form lives in green places and the yellow form in yellow and brown places , with rare exceptions . |