Example sentences of "place [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage cut off the complete head and invert it in a paper bag , hanging these in an airy place for a few days until the seeds are quite dry . |
| 2 | She thought she might avoid the place for a few days herself , just in case the boy had any ideas of adopting her as a protector . |
| 3 | It was great to be working in one place for a few nights on the trot so that I could afford to go to that amount of trouble . ’ |
| 4 | So , too , are the increasing number of so-called closing down sales which often take place for a few days or weeks at the end of a shop lease . |
| 5 | The zoo 's always a good place for a few laughs . |
| 6 | As always , we have to be prepared beforehand , and as we can not start the job without tools , this is the place for a few dos and don'ts . |
| 7 | Perhaps this is an appropriate place for a few brief notes on the more common chemical fertilizers and organic manures of plant and animal origin . |
| 8 | Leave the pot in a warm , dark place for a few weeks — the airing cupboard is best . |
| 9 | ‘ You do n't mind looking after the place for a few days , do you ? ’ |
| 10 | This does not mean that there is no place for the latter . |
| 11 | They all came from similar backgrounds and , as like minds , they were all congregating at the same place for the same reasons . |
| 12 | After the evening when he introduced Atkins , he remained in the background and his place as the latter 's companion was taken by a swarthy newcomer . |
| 13 | Hubel and Wiesel showed that the properties of the neurons in the visual cortex were drastically changed by restricting the visual experience of an animal , provided that these restrictions took place during a few months early in life called the sensitive period . |
| 14 | Yet Mary Joe forcibly made the point that ‘ exhibitions can hurt the tour when they take place during the same period , the same City or just the same continent as specified sanctioned tournaments . ’ |
| 15 | The study of language , literature , and history was also substantially influenced by the general process of higher academic specialization which took place during the same period . |
| 16 | The transition from one to the other takes place after a few seconds of observation , is discontinous and can not be stopped at in an intermediate position . |
| 17 | Once in a while at least , the philosopher must be allowed to approach the psychologist as a counsellor and to say : if you leave the Sorbonne by the exit in the Rue Saint-Jacques , you can either turn up the hill or go down towards the river : if you go up , you will get to the Panthéon which is the resting place of a few great men , but if you go downhill then you 're bound to end up at the Préfecture de Police . |
| 18 | In place of the former culture of bureaucracy , Mr Horton set out to install a structure with the minimum of controls and the maximum of delegation of responsibility , bypassing the traditional middle management layers of the organisation . |
| 19 | The report called for a major debate each year on this White Paper and recommended the creation of a new public Expenditure Select Committee to take the place of the former Estimates Committee . |
| 20 | At officer level there was to be a chief executive ( in place of the former town clerk ) whose role was to advise the Policy and Resources Committee and head a small management team ( consisting mainly of chief departmental officers ) which would prepare plans and programmes as well as co-ordinate policy implementation . |
| 21 | The proposals , adopted by the Supreme Council , would establish 16 ministries in the Latvian government , in place of the former 23 . |
| 22 | The graveyard of the modest little church at Chapel-le-Dale is the last resting place of the many men who died from illness and disease during the construction of the Ribblehead railway viaduct in the 1870s as a result of the privations they suffered . |
| 23 | In place of the few massy figures on that we see scores of small ones , ranged in six registers which give us seven stories from legend as well as a band of animals and florals , a battle of Pygmies and cranes on the foot , and other figures on the flat of the handles . |
| 24 | It was economical , thought Lydia , and reassuring to make your dwelling place of the same indigenous material as your grave . |
| 25 | Also on Feb. 15 the Latvian Supreme Soviet finally passed a law , awaited since October 1988 [ see p. 36487 ] , on restoring to official use the flag , state emblems and national anthem of independent Latvia in place of the those of Soviet Latvia . |
| 26 | Barnes 's bid for a Test place against the All Blacks in Christchurch was ended abruptly in Invercargill on Tuesday , when the two half-backs were involved in a ruck . |
| 27 | Leonard has only to play effectively to win a Test place against the All Blacks in the second international in Wellington on Saturday week . |
| 28 | But Magda ze Schluderpacheru was better than the other madams , the Silver Shuriken could have been a nice place with a little work . |
| 29 | In my opinion , this empty disputation will eventually take its place with the many other myths of human evolution . |
| 30 | ‘ It was in the same place with the same registrar but this time everyone was there , including me . ’ |