Example sentences of "places [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Changing places during a meal would clearly be too disruptive . |
| 2 | 2a The pupil can identify the place value of a column or a digit in it for values of tenths , hundredths and thousandths ; 2b the pupil can represent in numerals a decimal number given in words ; 2c the pupil can represent in words a decimal number given in numerals ; 2d the pupil can order decimal numbers ; 2e the pupil can provide a decimal number which is between two given numbers in size ; 2f the pupil can represent a given decimal number on a number line or read one from a number line or scale ; 2g the pupil can understand relationships of the form 1.3 x 8 ( I x 8 ) + ( 0.3 x 8 ) ; 2h the pupil can represent a fraction in tenths or hundredths as a decimal ; 2i the pupil can represent a decimal with not more than two decimal places as a fraction . |
| 3 | The pupil can represent a decimal with not more than two decimal places as a fraction ( Example 90 ) . |
| 4 | A word from Maud and he had been given one of the four coveted places as a dresser , which meant he had more chance to learn the great man 's skills . |
| 5 | Many provincial towns in the United States have lost almost all their shops to suburban shopping malls and have become very dead places as a result . |
| 6 | District forecasts : 1,2,3,4,5,7 : Outbreaks of rain , heavy in places for a while , dying out later . |
| 7 | Its dense growth provides nesting places for a range of bird life as well as warm cover in winter or roosting small birds . |
| 8 | We invited our critics to trade places for a day . |
| 9 | His transport manager must have had nightmares finding parking places for a caravan of that size . |
| 10 | The Flour Advisory Bureau , in conjunction with the Forest Service of Northern Ireland , has produced this guide to some of the best places for a picnic in the forest and woodlands of Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | The writing was on the wall for Charles in June 1990 when he broke his arm in two places after a fall from his polo pony . |
| 12 | " Hotel " is defined by s.139(1) as meaning ( a ) in towns and suburbs a house containing at least four apartments set apart exclusively for the sleeping accommodation of travellers , and ( b ) in rural districts and places of a population of less than 1,000 according to the most recent census a house containing two such apartments . |
| 13 | ‘ Well , a single girl staying in places with a man like that . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ This year there are a lot of students who have not yet got training places — significantly more than at a similar time in previous years , ’ Mr Pritchard said , adding that the Law Society was considering various ways of helping those unable to find a training places with a law firm . |
| 15 | The District Council also agreed to a 50% increase in the Quota , the extra sum paid by branches to the District on a sliding scale according to the populations of the communities they served : branches in places with a population under 1,000 , for instance , were now expected to pay £3 per annum , those where the population was between 5,000 and 7,000 £5 5s. 0d. , those in places of between 50,000 and 75,000 £9 and so on . |
| 16 | My sketchbook sequences record places along a walk or events in time at a single site . |
| 17 | Some women have acquired status as heroines ; Rosalba Carriera , Angelica Kauffmann , Rosa Bonheur , Berthe Morisot , Paula Modersohn-Becker and Käthe Kollwitz have found places in a pantheon of major talent from which there ought never to have been any question of their exclusion . |
| 18 | I wrote to Belgium , and found them places in a school in Brussels , which was owned by a Monsieur Héger . |
| 19 | Hysteria had nothing to do with reality , it was something you could n't help , could n't hold back any more than you could stop flood water finding out the weak places in a dam . |
| 20 | At the end of the twentieth century , at least some colour illustrations are likely to find places in a monograph . |
| 21 | At all periods there must have been recognised places in a locality where goods could have been acquired or disposed of . |
| 22 | The same figure occurs in several places in a textbook . |
| 23 | You could imagine the illustration [ Figure 10.3 ] appearing in several places in a book , a text-book for instance . |
| 24 | Mr Kinnock , reaffirming his confidence that Labour was on course for an overall majority , dismissed reports that Mr Ashdown was seeking four Cabinet places in a coalition with Labour . |
| 25 | Slovenia in Milk Race CYCLING : Yugoslavia , who last competed in the Milk Race 30 years ago , will be represented by the breakaway state of Slovenia , which has joined the Commonwealth of Independent States in taking up the last places in a record field of 18 teams . |
| 26 | It was a triumph of planning in so short a time for so complicated a matter , most of it carried through in most places within a year or two years of the passing of the act . |
| 27 | lt would , for example , sound distinctly odd to have a tone-unit boundary between an article and a following noun , or between auxiliary and main verbs if they are adjacent ( though we may on occasions hesitate or pause in such places within a tone-unit ; some people who do a lot of arguing , notably politicians and philosophers , develop the skill of pausing for breath in such intonationally unlikely places because they are less likely to be interrupted than if they pause at the end of a sentence ) . |
| 28 | People have made wonderful toys in a lot of different places over a period of time . |
| 29 | There were as many Probate Courts as there were dioceses , in addition to the Prerogative Courts of the two Archbishops , and a number of courts in places called Peculiars , places outside a bishop 's jurisdiction , and under a special ecclesiastical jurisdiction of their own . |
| 30 | However , it has to be recognized that the whole concept of conservation areas would never have become established in many places without a willingness by local authorities to accept development behind facades . |