Example sentences of "a [adj] place at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nearing my twelfth birthday , I was fortunate enough to secure a free place at the local secondary school . |
| 2 | But I tended to do much better on tests and examinations than I did on coursework , so I passed the eleven-plus and got a free place at the local St. Albans school . |
| 3 | A place at grammar school was seen as hardly more genuinely open to everyone than a fee-paying place at a public school ; and so the move towards comprehensive schools was made , largely on grounds of justice . |
| 4 | The basic idea is that in order to study a single linguistic feature , the investigator will elicit a set word or phrase in entirely naturalistic conditions from persons who happen to be in a given place at a given time . |
| 5 | Without concentrations of activity at a given place at a given time there would be no patterns , no spatial or areal differentiation . |
| 6 | It follows that behind every statement we make about the historical Jesus there has to be a tacit qualification : ‘ We are told this by such-and-such an evangelist , writing in a particular literary mode , far a particular audience , in a particular place at a particular period of history . ’ |
| 7 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
| 8 | Singular statements , unlike a second class of statements that we will meet shortly , refer to a particular occurrence or state of affairs at a particular place at a particular time . |
| 9 | The problem essentially is that you have got simultaneously to account credibly for someone not being at a certain place at a certain time and to account for them precisely being there . |
| 10 | Even if he is murdered by a homicidal maniac he has chosen to be at a certain place at a certain time . |
| 11 | ‘ Sandra Riverton was killed at a remote place at a remote hour . |