Example sentences of "the place [prep] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point it might well happen that blocks of shops and houses would be built down one side of the market place , taking the place of a number of stalls , and so creating the plan , described above , where the original open space is reduced to a broad main street , with a detached block of buildings down one side , behind which is a narrow back street , as at St Albans , or Kimbolton in Huntingdonshire , to speak of only two examples . |
| 2 | Yet my sense that that was the place for a transformation of vision . |
| 3 | Now that is a job worth having — traditionally the stepping stone to the Cabinet and the place for a man of ideas . |
| 4 | This is hardly the place for a dissertation of magnetic monopoles ; indeed , with luck , you can hope to avoid a single mention of the grand Universal Theories ( called GUTs ) that predict them . |
| 5 | ‘ It would reduce the place to a scattering of houses . |
| 6 | Change of weather 's turned the place into a hive of activity has n't it ? |
| 7 | At Burwalls , he and the Warden , Jock Sloane , ran the place like a couple of jolly uncles . |
| 8 | On returning at night , with his dog , who was usually at his heels , he again stopped at Aylesford , and as is too frequently the case upon such occasions , he drank immoderately , and left the place in a state of intoxication . |