Example sentences of "[prep] [art] place [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An enterprising type at the gate sells photocopied plans of the place for a mark apiece . |
| 2 | the alphabetical index which provides an entry vocabulary or a list of terms for first consultation , as well as identification of the place of a subject within the scheme . |
| 3 | An excellent example of the role of a place as a focus of collective identity is provided by one of the major events in British industrial relations in recent decades — the National Union of Mineworkers ' strike of March 1984 to March 1985 . |
| 4 | It was , he thought , one hell of a place for a man to spend a Thursday evening . |
| 5 | Sometimes it was the children who forced the pace , pleading in all innocence to join their brothers , sisters , or friends who had somehow won this great distinction of a place on a Kindertransport . |
| 6 | Any decision on acceptance of an entry profile and offer of a place on a programme of studies is specific to an individual centre and that offer is not necessarily transferable between centres . |
| 7 | Any decision on acceptance of an entry profile and offer of a place on a programme of studies is specific to an individual centre and that offer is not necessarily transferable between centres . |
| 8 | Each such pupil also receives a personalised letter reminding them of their entitlement to education and training , and guaranteeing them both an interview with an officer of the Careers Service and an offer of a place on a training scheme , in a job or in continued education . |
| 9 | Often students with babies or young children are not able to pay the full cost of a place at a crèche , so usually alternative funding is required . |
| 10 | She had been phoning people who might go to Greece with her or drive her there or , failing that , pay her air-fare , and eventually she succeeded in getting a loan from an aunt and an offer of a place in a minibus from an old schoolfellow and her boyfriend . |
| 11 | And she drew his hand closer and laid her cheek on it , so that he knew she , too , was thinking of Bruges , when she had allowed him that right , and of Ghent , and of a place by a waterfall . |
| 12 | If , for example , eligibility for a grant for education , or for council housing , or for employment in the public service , or for a place for a child at a school of first choice , were to be assessed by reference to the citizenship record of the applicant , then this would put considerable pressure on many people to perform these ‘ voluntary obligations ’ . |
| 13 | For a place with a population of half a million or so it is a handy size . |
| 14 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |
| 15 | When applying for a place on a re-entry course keep the following questions in mind so that you can compare what is on offer to your own best advantage . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ That our MPs should soil the party 's soul for a place on a committee which is a unionist invention to be used against independence , is staggering . |
| 17 | Most of us are used to the familiar Baker Street landmark now , its squat green ( copper ) dome topped with a disconcertingly transparent Saturn in the place of a weather vane . |
| 18 | They had a there was a sort of electric burner in the place as a whole |
| 19 | Both are chilling tales : blood and guts all over the place as a teenager pumps a shotgun at her school fellows in Monster , while in The Train a bunch of high school friends travelling from Chicago to San Francisco confess their guilty and vicious secrets before falling victim to savage revenge . |
| 20 | On 30 minutes , Farnham 's defence was all over the place at a free-kick and the ball fell at a perfect height to an unmarked Lamboll who struck an unstoppable volley past Cann . |
| 21 | The conversation was hopping all over the place like a dakkabug on a griddle . |
| 22 | ‘ Aye , me and one of my mates have been going round the Forestry Commission tracks up in the hills , goin' round at fifty , skiddin' all over the place like a speedway . ’ |
| 23 | Much controversy surrounded the finalization of this part of the Act centred on the question whether all 3–5 year olds should become entitled to a place in a nursery or pre-school . |
| 24 | He walked round the cold rooms and looked at the place with a stranger 's eyes . |
| 25 | Look straight ahead as if gazing at a place on a wall . |
| 26 | We spent an afternoon with plantation workers who continue to do health promotion training even though they earn little and live in an area where such work can be rewarded by a place on a death list . |