Example sentences of "[art] place [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Plutarch says ( Aratos xvi ) of the Akrokorinth : ‘ it hinders and cuts off all the country south of the Isthmus from intercourse , transits , and the carrying on of military expeditions by land and sea , and makes him who controls the place with a garrison sole lord of Greece . ’ |
| 2 | He walked round the cold rooms and looked at the place with a stranger 's eyes . |
| 3 | On 30 minutes , Farnham 's defence was all over the place at a free-kick and the ball fell at a perfect height to an unmarked Lamboll who struck an unstoppable volley past Cann . |
| 4 | They had a there was a sort of electric burner in the place as a whole |
| 5 | The locals still used the place as a tip , and piles of old tyres and other junk lay about . |
| 6 | But old Hoggatt founded the place as a police lab , and when the chips are down that 's what it 's all about . |
| 7 | Both are chilling tales : blood and guts all over the place as a teenager pumps a shotgun at her school fellows in Monster , while in The Train a bunch of high school friends travelling from Chicago to San Francisco confess their guilty and vicious secrets before falling victim to savage revenge . |
| 8 | ‘ You should keep more pigs and run the place as a farm , ’ Simon said . |
| 9 | On 31 October 1605 he was by-elected for Evesham , taking the place of a man who had been an Exchequer colleague of one of his Bowyer cousins . |
| 10 | Beer line systems have a pressurised detergent solution vessel which takes the place of a keg and use the pumps and controls of the beer dispense equipment with a standing period . |
| 11 | Although the 1624 Act against letting an individual hold a monopoly meant that no businessman could take the place of a trading company , there was no reason why an individual should not hold a charter as a great landlord . |
| 12 | For if he should say ‘ I leave him this ’ or ‘ I commend ’ , because these are direct words , they can not have the place of a trust . |
| 13 | This procedure is indicative of a fundamental difference in determining the place of a person in society . |
| 14 | the alphabetical index which provides an entry vocabulary or a list of terms for first consultation , as well as identification of the place of a subject within the scheme . |
| 15 | So again , it 's a thing which you might consider when you 're er letting vehicles come in front and er I the rights and wrongs of erm flashing lights , er really the only flashing lights should take the place of a horn . |
| 16 | On more than one occasion he had had to remove a dead dog from the highway and take it in his barrow to the incinerator , and there were times when he had to take the place of a night watchman who had been taken ill on one of the larger roadworks and stay there until he could be relieved . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Most of us are used to the familiar Baker Street landmark now , its squat green ( copper ) dome topped with a disconcertingly transparent Saturn in the place of a weather vane . |
| 19 | Unlike Jeanne of Artois , whom he judged to be ‘ prodigal and immoral ’ , the pope thought Margaret well able take the place of a mother and commended her to philip V. She had in effect governed Béarn , and governed it well , since Gaston I 's death in 1315 , but was to die in 1319 . |
| 20 | A substitution note is a note which takes the place of a harmony note immediately adjacent to it ( sometimes above , sometimes below ) . |
| 21 | That is , a number takes the place of a letter . |
| 22 | There are many techniques of archaeological interpretation , and several layers at which interpretation is necessary , from sorting out the structural sequence of excavated buildings to assessing the place of a nation in world history . |
| 23 | Outside 's the place for a cat in the afternoons . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ This is not the time or the place for a pit-popsy , sweetheart . |
| 25 | Yet my sense that that was the place for a transformation of vision . |
| 26 | An enterprising type at the gate sells photocopied plans of the place for a mark apiece . |
| 27 | Bishopstrow House , near Warminster , Wiltshire , is the place for a treat , especially if you 're leaving the children behind . |
| 28 | Now that is a job worth having — traditionally the stepping stone to the Cabinet and the place for a man of ideas . |
| 29 | If a ‘ keep out ’ sign annoys you , stop and think of the stalker and his family before you do anything silly , and even if the whole issue of land use and access in Scotland enrages you , remember the place for a protest is not on the hill , but in the ballot box . |
| 30 | Then , after studying the place for a week , she moved into her present workplace , next to a busy parking lot . |