Example sentences of "a place at [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sentenced to two years in prison , and was ordered to pay back to the state several thousand Swiss francs which he had used illegally to arrange a place at a Swiss university for Zhivkov 's grandson [ see p. 38017 ] . |
| 2 | At various points in the early 1980s consideration was given by the Conservatives to the idea of introducing a ‘ voucher ’ system , designed to enable parents to exercise their choice by ‘ buying ’ a place at a particular school . |
| 3 | So doing the foundation course here gives me the chance to get a place at a Czech University . |
| 4 | Fortunately , I noticed that he had been given a place at a different school from his older brother and that it was actually a matter of filling in the appeal form requesting a place at another school . |
| 5 | They were invited in , and given a place at the Samain feastings , and they took part in the revelries and the banquets . |
| 6 | The International Student Service came to the rescue with a place at the Northern Polytechnic , with lodgings in a hostel guaranteed by the RCM . |
| 7 | This was consolidated by the desire of smaller states to make the best of their inevitable inferiority by gaining a place at the top table through federation , and by the gradual decline of Austria as the only credible rival for hegemony in Central Europe . |
| 8 | But I know this ; if it is going to work , there is no argument that denies Britain a place at the leading edge of what is happening . |
| 9 | I applied for a place at the Methodist Institution training college in London — and have heard I have been accepted . ’ |
| 10 | Mr Williams recently received the Lympus prize in his FRCO exams and has just been offered a place at the Royal Academy of Music to study organ performance . |