Example sentences of "place [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I ca n't leave this place for one bloody week ! ’ |
| 2 | And since the dog also resided at Almsmead — Frizingley very clearly being no place for one of his pedigree — so too , for most of the time , it seemed , did Tristan . |
| 3 | relocation , in order to rectify an inappropriate placement , to eliminate dual provision ( more than one place for one subject ) and to make room for new subjects ; |
| 4 | ‘ Now here , ’ he announced brutally , ‘ is the perfect place for one of those Japanese-style bridges . |
| 5 | Of course , there is a place for one or two chief executives , but I can think of several names , which I will not mention , of former Labour and Conservative council leaders who could make an enormous contribution . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's a big place for one person — two , ’ she corrected , remembering how he had told her that it was Peter 's home too . |
| 7 | What better place for two of our London-based Target ‘ 92 candidates to test their training progress . |
| 8 | Negotiations between the National Trust and MoD have been taking place for two years and have reached a critical stage . |
| 9 | ‘ Find a place for two of us , I 'll come to you . ’ |
| 10 | A commission appointed by the Court of Session was due to resume yesterday at his home in Beith , Ayrshire , to hear testimony in advance of a full court hearing which is unlikely to take place for two years . |
| 11 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 12 | Where the snout , or end , of a glacier stayed in one place for many years — which was when the ice was advancing at the same rate as it was melting — more and more boulder clay was dumped at the glacier snout . |
| 13 | This aquatic ferris wheel churns the Bay 's waters into a brackish and turbid soup — an inhospitable place for many types of life . |
| 14 | As the new lord was only nineteen years old when he inherited the title , it is unlikely the event will again take place for many years . |
| 15 | Album releases are hindered by the artist 's lack of independent celebrity and the skid row of budget-bin city is often the final resting place for many recordings that deserve much , much better . |
| 16 | In the heart of the Pennines , Skipton ( Table 2.9 ) , traditionally the centre of Craven , was the only place for many a mile recognisable as a town in any real sense ; its population can not have reached 500 . |
| 17 | The best place for many of these is the more peaceful setting of the mainly invertebrate aquarium where they can add a dash of colour and movement and feel better at home . |
| 18 | Since an injunction may be granted on an interlocutory basis pending trial ( which may not take place for many months ) and , in cases of great urgency , on an ex parte basis , it is clear that there is a possibility of the union side being robbed of the initiative in an industrial action . |
| 19 | I told her I 'd breast-fed the children on it and taught them to read by the fire on it , and that it had been wonderful as a family gathering place for many years . |
| 20 | What it 's revealed , totally unexpectedly is the vast extent to which inappropriate placements have taken place for many years . |
| 21 | From her experience Derry is a tragic place for many young men . |
| 22 | So , above all , the picture is of an administrative reform taking place for new mental health services to be created . |
| 23 | Museum place for new bike |
| 24 | She was wrong to think that genuine criticism could be severed from evaluation , but right to think that there was no place for such criticism in the academy . |
| 25 | It was at Oakridge Lynch , close by the junction of the Whiteway and Broadways , an unusual place for such a large mill , the majority of its brethren being well down in the valley bottoms . |
| 26 | Like many I would draw the line if it were a water closet frequented by the public , but prison is not a place for such offenders . |
| 27 | A poem about a daisy or a butterfly , however quiet in tone and however naive it may appear in isolation , may be read in this context as a hymn to battle against economic thinkers , who could find no place for such useless natural objects in their systems of ideas . |
| 28 | No , Dudley House is the proper place for such as your grandfather . |
| 29 | In institutional care there should be no place for such people . |
| 30 | Windata Inc announced on Friday that it has formed a subsidiary in Israel , which will develop software for management of local and wireless communication systems : the availability of many experts in telcommunications and wireless communication in Israel make the country an ideal place for such research and development according to Greg Hopkins , Windata 's chief executive ; Israel 's privileged relationship with the European Community will provide more flexibility to the subsidiary in the firm 's efforts to penetrate European markets . |