Example sentences of "a place [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sweet scent of her native land came back to her , but she also began to remember the terror she had felt when she was wrenched from her home and transported to a place beside the sea . |
| 2 | ( 210 ) But a handsome butcher , who had found a place beside her , held that she was entitled to the post of honour in the front row , and bade her not be frightened . |
| 3 | Some of the documentaries screening are A PLACE OF RAGE , a portrait of two inspirational African-American women Angela Davies and June Jordan , and MYSTERIES OF JULY an elegaic investigation into the issue of deaths at the hands of the police . |
| 4 | A Place of Rage |
| 5 | It was a place of moss and mud and standing pools , myriads of flies twirled in the sun-rays , and dogs and children ran out to greet the newcomers in a raucous chorus . |
| 6 | He needed solitude to write , as well as a place of his own for entertaining his girlfriends , which he found on Mountain Street . |
| 7 | It was a place of solitude , of plodding donkeys ( even today no cars are allowed on the island ; nor would they get very far if they were ) ; cold water and kerosene lamps . |
| 8 | The writ was served at the London address on the basis that it constituted a place of business established by Capricorn as an overseas company in Great Britain , rendering such service valid under section 695 of the Companies Act 1985 , Capricorn had not registered the name and address of a person authorised to accept service . |
| 9 | Capricorn applied for the service of the writ to be set aside on the ground that the London address did not consitute a place of business in Great Britain or that if service was good , Capricorn sought a stay on the ground of lis alibi pendens in Ohio . |
| 10 | MR JUSTICE HIRST said that the criteria in determining whether an overseas company had established a place of business in Great Britain were summarised in Palmers ' Company Law , 24th edn ( 1987 ) page 1658 . |
| 11 | Britain was bound to become a place of paralysing congestion in some parts , of miserable underdevelopment in others , a place of inefficiency , and because of the refusal to make public investment , a place of considerable danger too , for the travelling public and people working in those industries as we have seen so tragically demonstrated . ’ |
| 12 | Britain was bound to become a place of paralysing congestion in some parts , of miserable underdevelopment in others , a place of inefficiency , and because of the refusal to make public investment , a place of considerable danger too , for the travelling public and people working in those industries as we have seen so tragically demonstrated . ’ |
| 13 | Britain was bound to become a place of paralysing congestion in some parts , of miserable underdevelopment in others , a place of inefficiency , and because of the refusal to make public investment , a place of considerable danger too , for the travelling public and people working in those industries as we have seen so tragically demonstrated . ’ |
| 14 | Henry 's court is a place of dramatic lighting and suppressed excitement , while the atmosphere of the French deliberations is more informal , full of frustration and weariness . |
| 15 | East Anglia on a sunny weekend is a place of matchless beauty . |
| 16 | A vague mother , an aunt described as ‘ a figure entirely out of fiction ’ and a hysterical sister who seems to have elevated emotional blackmail into a minor art-form , made his domestic environment a place of turmoil . |
| 17 | A century ago Scheveningen was a place of painters as much as of fishermen , and not far off the tram route you can still see exactly what the artists saw . |
| 18 | St Clement Danes is a place of pilgrimage for many who come to see the incribed names in the Memorial Books of those whom they have lost . |
| 19 | He needed a place of quiet , a good library , and a chapel where the worship was Anglo-Catholic and he would feel at home . |
| 20 | A monastery was a place of prayer , and some monks had teaching duties , and most of them had to guide souls . |
| 21 | The City is again a place of insect-like life , drab scenes and rats , unless there is present what Eliot had earlier described as an ‘ organic ’ , a sort of tribal , community sense . |
| 22 | Yet , as one of his prose pieces of the period reveals , the desert remained for him not only a place of death , but also a place of Christian triumph . |
| 23 | Yet , as one of his prose pieces of the period reveals , the desert remained for him not only a place of death , but also a place of Christian triumph . |
| 24 | If it was like seeing a long lost friend again after twenty-seven years , Darby O'Gill was comfortingly predictable with touches of the old sparkle but we had lost a lot of common ground as I had moved from a place of romance and innocence through a world of cynicism and calculated sophistication . |
| 25 | After long years of living in unsatisfactory rented accommodation , it now looked as if Jack and Minto could afford a place of their own . |
| 26 | In 1986 the local authority became concerned about injuries which D had sustained and they obtained a place of safety order . |
| 27 | Like Europe itself , it is a place of ghosts and a hall of historic mirrors . |
| 28 | Another girl , placed in a children 's home at 13 after her mother had a nervous breakdown and her father left for another woman , described her shock at finding it was also a place of ‘ correction ’ for young offenders . |
| 29 | The building is as bland as a modern concert hall : a place of marble floors , wide foyers and sweeping staircases . |
| 30 | I want , as Milton says in those pathetic closing lines of his Epic , ‘ a place of rest ’ … 1 am too doubtful about my own writing to think of making an effort towards completing another volume . |