Example sentences of "[verb] a place [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you should decide to accept a place on a course , do not rush out to buy textbooks until you have finished reading this book , and guidance on returning to learning in particular . |
| 2 | There were strict age limits for entry to the training establishment maintained by the Company to train its recruits , for cadets and writers had to enter within the ages of fifteen and twenty-two , and there was thus great anxiety to secure a place in a director 's list which would ensure that an appointment could be secured before age excluded the candidate for ever . |
| 3 | He found a place through a reputable lettings agency . |
| 4 | He found a place for a year in the household of a wealthy London merchant where he started to translate the New Testament ; it became clear , however , that there was no possibility of printing it in England , so in 1524 he left for Germany , never to return . |
| 5 | But Wilson had been immeasurably kind to him , found a place for a very square peg in his government and , in 1967 , when he no longer had room in his government for Wigg , created him a peer and was at pains to find him a suitable job as chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board . |
| 6 | On the open land of Hampstead Heath , away from people and houses , he found a place in a field where he could sleep without being disturbed . |
| 7 | This can double as the machine teachers use to preview materials and to find a place on a tape before a lesson . |
| 8 | At school leaving age , parents who had previously been able to cope with a child attending or possibly boarding at a special school are faced with the continuing prospect of full time life with their mentally handicapped son or daughter who may be unable to find a place in a training centre or enter full time education . |
| 9 | to find a place in a coherent whole , which relates to the concerns of the world about us . |
| 10 | An education voucher , for example , could be used to obtain a place at a state school , or as part payment of private school fees . |
| 11 | It is not difficult to obtain a place on a committee . |
| 12 | It should be possible to see now that the tone-unit has a place in a range of phonological units that are in a hierarchical relationship : speech consists of a number of utterances ( the largest unit that we shall consider ) ; each utterance consists of one or more tone-units ; each tone-unit consists of one or more feet ; each foot consists of one or more syllables ; each syllable consists of one or more phonemes . |
| 13 | If you had to choose a place for a factory making some similar consumer goods , perhaps pop records , which city , on either side of the Pennines , do you think would be best , and why ? |
| 14 | We were travelling steerage and had secured a place on a bench on a port deck . |
| 15 | She could have saved her breath , for , clearly not interested in her protest that there was no need , he intimated a place on a column by the door where she should put up her foot — and stood by , waiting none too patiently . |
| 16 | Have have have they got a place at a . . |
| 17 | The boy told him that he had got a place in a hostel , but that he would be lucky to get into a place like that if it was his first night . |
| 18 | The deal includes a place for a Taiyo Kobe employee on the Credito Commerciale board . |
| 19 | This was one aspect of her following human emotions where they took her , into many depths and intensities , that has yet hardly had a place in a novel . |
| 20 | In 1687 , when James II was trying to conciliate Dissenters in order to win toleration for Catholics , Bunyan was offered a place in a reconstructed Bedford Town Corporation , which he refused . |
| 21 | One concern is that as the numbers of very aged people increase in the population , so those offered a place in a home are increasingly dependent . |
| 22 | Following the burglary , she has been offered a place in a warden controlled block in Milton Keynes . |
| 23 | If so , you could be in line to win a place on a 10-month MBA course at INSEAD , courtesy of Arthur Andersen and Cosmopolitan magazine . |
| 24 | By Echo reporter A TEENAGER with a flair for cookery has tasted success by beating 3,000 young people to win a place in a national contest . |
| 25 | And finally a 40 strong choral group from Oxford have been singing their hearts out today in a bid to win a place in a national competition . |
| 26 | The doctor recommended a place at a named independent special school . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Striding out for charity FIVE unemployed people who have been given a place on a training scheme at British Aerospace Airbus , Broughton , have decided to give something back to the community by a sponsored walk from Bangor to BAe Broughton over two days starting on June 24 . |
| 29 | We will carry out pilot projects for the ‘ foyer ’ concept , whereby young people are given a place in a hostel if in exchange they give a commitment to train and look for work . |
| 30 | The comedy drama , called Henri , is about the adventures of a brilliant young accordion player from a small rural town who wins a place at a Belfast music school . |