Example sentences of "place a " in BNC.
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| 31 | At least , that was the case , until I demolished a tumbledown pigsty at the bottom of the garden , and built in its place a guest annexe . |
| 32 | Isaac Walton , Donne 's biographer , relates the tale : ‘ Several charcoal fires being first madde in his large study , he brought with him into that place a winding sheet in his hand , and having put off all his clothes , had this sheet put on him , and so tied with knots at his head and feet , and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted , to be shrouded and put into their coffin , or grave … with his eyes shut and with so much of the sheet turned aside as might show his lean , pale and death-like face . ’ |
| 33 | Instead , his debut in a red shirt will take place a few hundred miles away against Benfica . |
| 34 | Grobbelaar , Anfield 's No 1 keeper for 11 years , lost his place a week later when he resumed his international career with Zimbabwe rather than play in the opening League game at Nottingham Forest . |
| 35 | But worse is that it comes at the very moment Davies and Jeff Young , the WRU technical director , and forward-looking others have put into place a representative structure designed to facilitate the flow of full international candidates . |
| 36 | In sharing the Reds ' upset win in that national trial he proved a bit of success as a distributor and made two scorching breaks which hinted at a swashbuckling touch to his nature : ‘ I was very keen to make a good impression in the trial because it took place a week after my ‘ B ’ debut against Ireland and I wanted to make up for two particular errors in that game . |
| 37 | Why do n't we take it to some safe place a hundred miles away and dump it at the bottom of the deep blue sea ? ’ |
| 38 | But he 'd only been inside the place a few minutes . |
| 39 | In the next few months , Washington is going to try to transform the economic and regulatory environment of health care ( 13% of the economy ) , enact the most sweeping changes in the tax code since 1986 , lock into place a substantial reduction of the deficit and enact a five-year $165 billion ‘ investment ’ package in education , health care and infrastructure . |
| 40 | In the run up , DEC will put in place a campaign aimed at independent software vendors , OEMs and other technology partners which will stress the ability to run the catalogue of Unix SVR4 applications on the personality , plus OSF/1 software , from within the same environment . |
| 41 | Sparc International last week set in place a SparcBuilders programme which will include the licensing of a portfolio of designs , hardware and software interfaces , tools and implementations for designing and building Sparc systems and applications . |
| 42 | The ceremony took place a week early during the end-of-term Mass because the pupils will be on their Easter holidays on Maundy Thursday . |
| 43 | A Scotland Yard spokesman said detectives received 30–40 new pieces of information after Thursday 's reconstruction , which took place a week after the murder of 47-year-old Miss Bradley , whose boyfriend was teacher Nick Osborne , from Felsted School , near Great Dunmow , Essex . |
| 44 | This challenge to ‘ universalism ’ need not pose in its place a simple relativism or a mere piling up of empirical descriptions . |
| 45 | But now there was in place a plebiscitary system ; the total number of presidential primaries had risen sharply , thereby substantially increasing popular participation in the selection of delegates and further weakening the power of party leaders . |
| 46 | In common with other supply-side enthusiasts , he was convinced that sundry federal agencies had put in place a web of unnecessarily restrictive regulations that distorted market forces and inhibited the spirit of free enterprise . |
| 47 | In fact , the system of Republican education created by Jules Ferry after the defeat of 1870 put in place a common culture of liberal values . |
| 48 | Quitting England , the two moved into the abandoned eighteenth-century château Castille in Provence which they renovated The pictures were Douglas 's and the furniture was mine ’ , says Richardson and in a few years , Cooper and Richardson made the place a private museum and shrine to Cubism and its creators , and where Picasso , Leger and Braque were frequent visitors . |
| 49 | They lend the place a certain cosmopolitan tone . |
| 50 | But at least as far as the church is concerned , a conservative believes that what place a woman should hold was made known in the past and stands for all time . |
| 51 | Although the Hexams ' Thames-side tenement , a former mill , in Our Mutual Friend , is in itself atrocious — ‘ roof , and walls , and floor … alike had a look of decomposition ’ — it is the effort to make the place a home — ‘ a small dresser , making a spare show of the commonest articles of crockery and cooking vessels ’ that is drawn to the reader 's attention . |
| 52 | So we give the place a working over . |
| 53 | In each place a crowd of men in blue overalls , each with a Gauloise stuck in the corner of his mouth , stared into the mirror behind the bar at the reflection of any women who braved their domain . |
| 54 | Once in place a flow deflector and venturi unit can be set to ensure the required flow and aeration . |
| 55 | I 'd keep the place a bit tidier , too . |
| 56 | An armoured glove filled with a sadist 's hand had reached into his heart and torn out his joy in life and put in its place a seemingly permanent sense of loss and despair . |
| 57 | When David first brought her to this house as his wife , Beth had hoped she could fit in , make this place a proper home for all of them . |
| 58 | Hence , it is interesting that , while the historical account of social policy tended to stress a variety of significant contributions to policy , building constructively on the past — the 1911 National Insurance Act , the 1944 Education Act , the 1946 National Health Service Act — perhaps a key theme in modern writings on the policy process is the absence of rational forward planning but in its place a phenomenon that has been called ‘ disjointed incrementalism ’ . |
| 59 | He wound up at Kemp 's place a couple of years ago . |
| 60 | Sultan Mahmud I ( 1730–54 ) attempted to disband the janissaries and to put in their place a modern force , modelled on the standing armies of his European enemies . |