Example sentences of "place [prep] [art] [adj] time " in BNC.

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1 Many tournaments ( as you emphasised ) , have been in place for a long time and often with the same people running them for decades .
2 I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time .
3 Such a process has been taking place for a long time .
4 I really believe he could n't stand the boredom of being in one place for a long time , listening to other people . ’
5 Privately , senior party members claim women do not put themselves forward , are not up to the job and stress that most male MPs have been in place for a long time .
6 3 STEVE BULL scored twice as England finished their European Championship Under-21 qualifying campaign with a flourish in Jastrzebie Zdruj , but they are still likely to miss out on a quarter-final place for the first time since the competition began 13 years ago .
7 You should telephone before venturing to a place for the first time , but it is probably wise also to go by yourself and have a look , to check whether you can manoeuvre the patient in and out of the building easily , and whether the toilet facilities are suitable .
8 Captain of the 1975–76 team that won an FA Cup semi-final place for the first time in the club 's history , and then of the side which gained promotion to Division Two the following season , Ian 's future with us looked rosy indeed .
9 The Bramham Three Day Event took place for the first time in 1974 .
10 And know the place for the first time .
11 The prestigious event , at which leading scientists discuss global environment , took place for the first time this year , in Rio de Janeiro .
12 This will liberate much needed space in one two one , and enable the Board to bring together its central administration in one place for the first time ever .
13 For instance , in the Villa Alta dialect of Zapotec ( Mexico ) , it is necessary to distinguish between events which take place for the first time with respect to particular participants and those which are repetitions .
14 When we looked at the place for the first time .
15 The report added that participants had emphasised the significance of the exchange of military information , which had taken place for the first time in Vienna in mid-April , as " one of the key links in the development of a confidence-building and security system in Europe " .
16 Characteristically he uses the imagery of song to point to the highest kind of contemplative experience of God : The Form unfolds a process of definition which comes full circle back to its beginning so that that can be understood in a new way : the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time .
17 After Arsenal had demolished Coventry City 3-0 at Highbury to take top place for the first time since they won the Championship in May 1991 , Graham said : ‘ It is no good looking back .
18 While this is not insignificant ( a weakness of the lecture or the teacher-directed lesson is that it must take place at a pre-set time irrespective of student readiness ) it is hardly Liberty Hall .
19 ( 5 ) Where under a contract of sale the transfer of the property in the goods is to take place at a future time or subject to some condition later to be fulfilled the contract is called an agreement to sell .
20 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 .
21 Even if he is murdered by a homicidal maniac he has chosen to be at a certain place at a certain time .
22 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 .
23 Without concentrations of activity at a given place at a given time there would be no patterns , no spatial or areal differentiation .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 The second method for regeneration to be initiated is by a time clock , so that it takes place at a convenient time such as during the night .
27 For example storytime might take place at an established time towards the end of the school day , but in a follow-up session the next day questions could be asked to see how much they remember of the story , or one child could be asked to retell the story they heard yesterday ( see Boxes 4 and 5 ) .
28 All he saw was the ghost of the waterfall : ‘ we visited the place at an unseasonable time , and found it divested of its dignity and terror . ’
29 Out takes place at an unspecified time several decades after the unexplained but presumably cataclysmic event known as the ‘ displacement ’ .
30 She had never been to Ireland and said that she had never read anything about that country , and yet she was able to supply an abundance of detail about the way of life in that place at an earlier time .
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