Example sentences of "place [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In consequence , even when the insider retires and ostensibly leaves the family , he will be expected to maintain his silence , and although bland hagiographic biography has been acceptable in the past , there has been no place for the espionage of critical ethnography . |
| 2 | Crime prevention is despised work for detectives for it holds no place for the drama of the chase and no opportunity for the symbolic warfare which exists in the battles between ‘ polises ’ and ‘ prigs ’ . |
| 3 | A boat was not the best place for the kind of romance Aveling preferred . |
| 4 | On the contrary Olson is to be praised in the first place for the relentless hostility with which he presses the charge home : |
| 5 | Britain , with its growing traffic problems , seems an ideal place for the onset of this revolution . |
| 6 | Mathematics if not logic equated the two-goal lead Chelsea had established on the hour with a third-round place for the First Division side after the two clubs had drawn 1-1 at Stamford Bridge . |
| 7 | England require just one more point to ensure their place for the World Cup finals in Italy next summer and Robson said : ‘ Everybody knows the importance of the game . |
| 8 | If the Sun Chariot emphasised the spreading cloak of Arab domination , then the Cambridgeshire proved there is still a place for the smaller owner when Jeremy Glover sent out Rambo 's Hall , the only horse to have won for him this season , to gain an equally facile success . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ But the German system appears to have no place for the producer — it 's like a final , ridiculous culmination of the auteur theory , which insisted that movies are made by directors rather than producers — and so it has no room for that kind of creative argument . ’ |
| 11 | They all came from similar backgrounds and , as like minds , they were all congregating at the same place for the same reasons . |
| 12 | In this bright new world there is no place for the dragon : no one wants the shadow , wants the dark magic which is as old as the caves in the hills where we dwell . |
| 13 | True , he says , but it is a fine place for the smell . |
| 14 | Since as Jack Droney put it , Brent , with its left-wing trade unionists , ‘ was a bloody good place for the Grunwick strike to happen ’ , one might expect that the union involved had given the strikers not only support but increased impetus in their struggles , but members of the strike committee certainly did not feel this to be so . |
| 15 | This was no place for the frail ball player . |
| 16 | Much youth work in the region is led by young people and a lot of training is taking place for the leaders of different groups . |
| 17 | Yet this was no place for the faint hearted , and Jimmy knew it . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll be happy with Mike 's place for the moment , ’ said Colin , again rubbing in that he knew a thing or two about some of Sheffield 's leading businesses , and that there is no substitute for that kind of detailed and expert and intimate knowledge . |
| 19 | Oh sure , it can be a tonic , and it 's useful as glucose if you just want to kick things over , but , come the advent of a newer and more just social order , the one for which we all cry out , there would be no place for the scandal and achievement of pop , for Prince and any foul Beasties . |
| 20 | It fast became a glorious gathering place for the artistic intelligentsia of the day , who helped to enhance Biddesden further . |
| 21 | Singapore was the obvious place for the main base East of Suez . |
| 22 | Thailand is an ideal place for the virus to spread . |
| 23 | Everything I saw in Government suggested that the right place for the National Freight Corporation was in the private sector and that deregulation of the bus and coach services could provide great public benefits . |
| 24 | There seemed to be no place for the concept of a human soul sustained by a divine being , which exists in other religions , independently of the Christian accretion of the Man-God and suffering Saviour . |
| 25 | He 's invited us over to his place for the circus and if we like it we can have one here . |
| 26 | The desecration of the cave , a holy place for the Indians who lived in the Mojave Desert , caused an uproar . |
| 27 | This was no place for the living . |
| 28 | After grinning broadly , Mr Kinnock replied : ‘ I continue to believe the place for the Elgin Marbles is in the Parthenon . ’ |
| 29 | In July 1990 , he grabbed the last qualifying place for the World Championship cycle in a hard-fought tournament in Manila by defeating Mikhail Gurevich , one of Kasparov 's former trainers , in the final game from a position most players would have given up as a draw . |
| 30 | The Boundary Commission should be set to work immediately and told to report in time for new constituencies to be in place for the next election — to bring fair representation across the United Kingdom , ensuring that a vote in Scotland is no longer worth more than one in England , or a vote in one constituency worth more than one in another . |