Example sentences of "place [coord] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While agreeing with the spirit of Jameson 's suggestion that an avant-garde sensibility may displace and make strange the regularity of everyday television , it is not enough to appeal to an already formed avant garde — formed in another place or at another time and for another purpose — which can be hauled in and held up to television as a template of value . |
| 2 | As amended in 1965 , it covered any person who in any public place or at any public meeting used threatening , abusive , or insulting words or behaviour or distributed or displayed any writing , sign , or other visible representation which was threatening , abusive , or insulting . |
| 3 | ‘ whether … its members can work as a team while they are apart , contributing to a sequence of activities rather than to a common task , which requires their presence in one place and at one time . ’ |
| 4 | A little arrogance , yes , some petulance , but nothing extra that went beyond what her position in that place and at that time would have encouraged in her . |
| 5 | May I welcome his decision to hold a public inquiry about these proposals and urge him to ensure that the inquiry is held in such a way , in such a place and at such a time that the concerns of many thousands of people about the proposals can be fully communicated ? |
| 6 | The number of youngsters sniffing varies from place to place and at different times . |
| 7 | Unlike singular statements , they refer to all events of a particular kind at all places and at all times . |
| 8 | The same writer also states : " The Bishop of Rochester remained at Hailing and Trottescliffe , where he conferred orders in both places and at certain intervals , " he continues , " this mortality swept away so vast a multitude of both sexes that none could be found to carry the corpses to the grave , men and women bore their own offspring to the Church and cast them into a common pit , and from these pits came such a great stench that hardly anyone dared cross the cemeteries . " |
| 9 | Although human mothers , in some places and at some times , hand over their babies to others to suckle , all other mammals provide their own babies with most , if not all of their milk . |
| 10 | A river with slightly acidic water dissolves its way into limestone , and there are even larger holes — caves — for bats and bears , even in some places and at some times , human beings . |
| 11 | They are properties of embryological processes , existing processes whose details may be changed by genes , acting in particular places and at particular times during embryonic development . |
| 12 | In some places and at different times there was some resistance , at Lincoln at the end of the fourteenth century and at Southampton , where the mayor from 1488 to 1491 made an unsuccessful attempt to preserve some semblance of democracy ( 77 , pp.259–61 ) . |