Example sentences of "place at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lover 's certainty that his love was the source of everything good and worthwhile in his life — the belief which lay behind the radiantly lyrical love poems of Bernard de Ventadour , some of which were composed at the court of Henry II and Eleanor — was a belief which gave to woman , as man 's partner and sometimes , in this context at least , the dominant partner , a place at the heart of things which had not been hers before . |
| 2 | THE EXTENT of the philosophical shift taking place at the top of the Metropolitan Police was illustrated in a speech delivered by Sir Peter Imbert to the International Police Exhibition and Conference in London at the end of September . |
| 3 | Victory would have secured Jarryd his place at the top of the points table , a feat worth £110,000 . |
| 4 | I took my place at the top of a walkway between the orchestra , the curtains opened and a lush sigh from the string section led the intro of ‘ Memories ’ . |
| 5 | Having secured miners ' place at the top of the manual wages league , there was nowhere for that economism to go . |
| 6 | Currently this competes with the Tithonian ( discussed in Chapter One ) for a place at the top of the jurassic . |
| 7 | He and Broughton carried the dead body of Hilary Frome from its resting place at the top of the stairs , and laid it on the bed in the sick bay . |
| 8 | Having established the tone , Procul Harum duly yielded their place at the top of the charts to the Beatles , who settled on the essence of that summer with ‘ All You Need Is Love ’ , to be followed by Scott McKenzie 's ‘ San Francisco ’ , which was , millions of radios announced , the place to be to skip the light fandango , and where all one needed was love . |
| 9 | In the past , drugs firms could rely on innovation for success : one blockbuster drug was enough to win a place at the top of the pharmaceutical league table . |
| 10 | The steps taken to field a team who would maintain the Premier Division side 's place at the top of Group A in the European Champions League were costly only in terms of the gamble that |
| 11 | Although the recruiter had obviously bathed , he still exuded the faint mustiness of the habitual opium smoker as he pressed past Duclos to take his place at the breakfast table . |
| 12 | The Prince of Wales has offered to take her place at the service if necessary . |
| 13 | The horse trading , or rather fish trading , that takes place at the Council meetings and other times — the talks with EFTA and the quota swaps — are all very well and sometimes seem to work to our advantage . |
| 14 | The now defunct sluice gates are still in place at the head of the race , which is much higher than the Ell Brook . |
| 15 | Eden , naturally , took Churchill 's place at the head of the Defence Committee , and the list of ad hoc committees he chaired reflects both his appetites and the intrinsic importance of their subject matter : GEN 502 on the supply of military aircraft ; GEN 503 on security in Cyprus ; GEN 506 on preparations for the meeting of foreign ministers of France , the UK , USSR and USA in Geneva in October 1955 ; and GEN 511 on a third Indian steel plant . |
| 16 | In taking his place at the head of the Second Crusade , the Rex Francorum decisively hastened the transformation of the Franks into the French . |
| 17 | Sarah resented me , even my place at the head of the table , and gave orders to the servants over my head . |
| 18 | As Harry sat down in the chair Martha indicated , he glanced at Will , who , looking rather hot and red-faced , was now taking his place at the head of the table . |
| 19 | Shelley looked across at Abuelo , sitting in his usual place at the head of the table . |
| 20 | A similar rite seems to have taken place at the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus . |
| 21 | She heard him being pushed from his place at the keyhole . |
| 22 | A meeting then took place at the border on Nov. 8 between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the then Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki , first on the German side at Frankfurt an der Oder and then across the river at Slubice ( part of pre-1945 Frankfurt ) . |
| 23 | These final exchanges were to have taken place at the border town of Mundhiriya from March 14 , but did not in the event go ahead as scheduled . |
| 24 | Prague 's second famous defenestration took place at the Hradčany Castle when Bohemian Protestants again thought themselves threatened in 1618 . |
| 25 | Buried beneath the sensationalism — for Punk Rock 's public face was nothing if not lurid — was a considered critique — derived in part from libertarian theories like Situationism , a big influence in the sixties and since — of pop music and youth culture 's place at the cutting edge of consumer capitalism . |
| 26 | They fear that its place at the cutting edge of environmental radicalism has been taking by groups such as Earth First . |
| 27 | CHRISTOPHER : Well to be quite honest , I did n't like it — so I got a place at the Art College . |
| 28 | FROM the birth of radio astronomy in 1932 , when Jansky discovered cosmic radio waves and established that they come from the Galactic Centre , it has been clear that something very remarkable is taking place at the core of the Milky Way . |
| 29 | Five days after the disaster at Douaumont , on May 13th , the third major conference of the campaign took place at the Crown Prince 's headquarters . |
| 30 | The conference took place at the Polytechnic of Central London in January 1973 , with Kerr and Berrill each chairing one of the sessions . |