Example sentences of "place [prep] the [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought it was a place for the aged and moribund — St Cemetery's-on-Sea ! ’ |
| 2 | But when Hannah was a girl , chapel was a place for the young and energetic , for people who wanted their voices to be heard . |
| 3 | It 's a well-known therapy in places like mental hospitals and prisons and has a place for the elderly as well . |
| 4 | A gathering place for the literary and artistic set and a fashionable venue for the weddings and banquets of London 's society . |
| 5 | This raises the issue of how we are to interpret the decentralization of jobs which took place between the mid-'60s and the mid-'70s . |
| 6 | At the outbreak of World War I , both informed and common opinion held that a major , probably decisive , naval action would soon take place between the British and German fleets . |
| 7 | The real work of the Assembly started with its second meeting on 15 October but before that much negotiation took place between the British and Irish governments and representatives of political parties in Northern Ireland . |
| 8 | In the United States , a similar shift from credit-rationing to price-rationing also took place between the seventies and eighties . |
| 9 | Elections to the National Assembly were now to take place through the direct and secret vote of the population — deputies having previously been elected by members of each of the country 's 14 provincial assemblies ( which were popularly elected ) from among their own members . |
| 10 | Foucault is actually arguing that ‘ control ’ need not take place through the direct and constant surveillance of individuals by authorities . |
| 11 | The regression session will often take place during the first or second consultation , and no homework as such will follow this . |
| 12 | By degrees the British came to dominate this trade , partly because they were so committed to sugar that they were bound to make large purchases of slaves on their own account , partly because their increasingly dominant position at sea meant that they could take the place of the Dutch as general suppliers of slaves for planters in other European colonies who wanted to buy them . |
| 13 | It seems as though , when the need was felt again for a monument to adorn the last resting place of the rich and great , it was met by monumentalising the only existing art , that of painted pottery . |
| 14 | At the same time as the non-past is undergoing this shift , the use of to with the infinitive is being extended beyond its concrete directional sense to cover all cases of subsequent potentiality and subsequent actualization , for which the bare infinitive had formerly been adequate : " … the use of the to infinitive in the place of the bare or plain infinitive increased rapidly during the late Old English and early Middle English periods " ( Visser 1966 : 948 ) . |
| 15 | PELYNT CHURCH — Last resting place of the famous and infamous |
| 16 | It is in fact directed against the protesters ' own parents — especially the father — and is intended to take the place of the infantile and adolescent reproaches and criticisms of the parental authority which have now come to be directed at each and any cultural equivalent of the father . |
| 17 | Its ultimate objective would be the establishment of a ‘ genuinely democratic and self-governing social organism ’ in place of the authoritarian and bureaucratic system that had come into existence in the Stalinist years . |
| 18 | It was then transformed into a castle by Countess Telfener at the turn of the century and became a great meeting place of the cultured and famous of the area , and a venue for duels . |
| 19 | The decline of the place of the military and the improvement of the position of the bourgeoisie and liberalism in the Austrian state , consecrated by the beginning of municipal self-government in 1850 and rapid economic growth throughout the 1850s , were pivotal in deciding the development of the Ringstrasse . |
| 20 | However , the Junkers , military , civil service and politicians chose to react to the Polish uprisings of 1830 , 1846 , 1848 , 1863 and 1905 — which took place in the Russian and Austrian sectors — by seeing , not a social and political movement that harked back to French revolutionary practice , and which aimed only in part at the restoration of the Polish state , but a Polish threat to Prussian and German identity . |
| 21 | This growth has accelerated in recent years , much of it taking place in the 1970s and it has been concentrated more in the higher levels of the education system . |
| 22 | Many firms that had a significant executive search presence in the market place in the 1970s and early 1980s are mow not even visible in the market . |
| 23 | Initially the activities are such that the validity of the idea was questioned , and this was checked by activities taking place in the scheming and analysis phases . |
| 24 | Thus the model can not take account either of changes in operators ' costs or of developments such as road pricing or a carbon tax which could be in place in the medium or long term . |
| 25 | The merger of Mills and Boon and the Harlequin imprint acts as a paradigm for the sequences of company mergers and takeovers that took place in the sixties and seventies in publishing in Britain and America , a period in which the ownership structures of publishing underwent a profound shift away from specialist producers and distributors of books , towards groups of publishing houses owned largely by corporate organizations whose primary interests were not in publishing . |
| 26 | Nearly all of them took place in the central and southern parts of the island , where the Sinhalese are in the majority . |
| 27 | Properly speaking , therefore , the new narrative pre-dates the so-called ‘ boom ’ , a term which is sometimes erroneously used as a synonym but which in fact refers to a process which took place in the 1960s and continued into the 1970s , when Spanish-American fiction won increasing recognition outside Latin America itself and achieved unprecedented commercial success . |
| 28 | The main surge in US international banking took place in the 1960s and 1970s , aided by the dollar becoming the world 's main vehicle and reserve currency . |
| 29 | While tensions had existed between the Prison Service in the field , their headquarters , and the Home Office since the days of Du Cane and Ruggles-Brise , they were exacerbated by the centralization that took place in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 30 | In the north we have seen that this village planning may have taken place in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |