Example sentences of "place at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The doctor can refer the person to the social services department for a home help , or meals on wheels , or a place at a day centre . |
| 2 | His 1939 journey took place at a time when anti-British sentiments were beginning to reach Hadhramaut from Cairo and there was increasing criticism of the privileges of sayyid rulers . |
| 3 | In both cases these are intellectuals talking about their own work by linking it with a process continually taking place at a popular level and in everyday life . |
| 4 | It follows that behind every statement we make about the historical Jesus there has to be a tacit qualification : ‘ We are told this by such-and-such an evangelist , writing in a particular literary mode , far a particular audience , in a particular place at a particular period of history . ’ |
| 5 | Labour 's National Executive Committee agreed last night that the leadership contest should take place at a special conference on July 18 . |
| 6 | The controversy which surrounded these events , and which periodically exercised the District Executive and enlivened the District Council , took place at a time when tutor-organisers were less established figures than they were to be in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 7 | Receptions into care were tightly controlled and alternative services offered , such as an intervention package or a place at a Family Centre , where time-limited , highly focused work was planned . |
| 8 | In the end we had to settle for a hurried and depressing buffet in the North British Hotel , with a menu which would not have been out of place at a Sunday-school picnic . |
| 9 | Richard Chauncy tore down this house , and built the one which stands in its place at a cost of £20,000 between 1747 and 1752 . |
| 10 | At various points in the early 1980s consideration was given by the Conservatives to the idea of introducing a ‘ voucher ’ system , designed to enable parents to exercise their choice by ‘ buying ’ a place at a particular school . |
| 11 | The doctor recommended a place at a named independent special school . |
| 12 | The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish . |
| 13 | This cleaning takes place at a definite cleaning station , usually by a large rock or near some other bold feature on the sea bed . |
| 14 | Early trials of the new drug took place at a time when the transplantation of kidneys and other organs was being vigorously investigated . |
| 15 | Those radicals ( among whom Gaitskell was , oddly , not numbered ) who wanted to abolish the public schools , or amalgamate them somehow into the maintained system , persuaded themselves for a time that if this were done , and if everyone had a chance to take the 11 + and compete for a place at a grammar school , then justice would have been done and educational standards would be secure . |
| 16 | A place at grammar school was seen as hardly more genuinely open to everyone than a fee-paying place at a public school ; and so the move towards comprehensive schools was made , largely on grounds of justice . |
| 17 | On 30 minutes , Farnham 's defence was all over the place at a free-kick and the ball fell at a perfect height to an unmarked Lamboll who struck an unstoppable volley past Cann . |
| 18 | Throughout implementation of the job , communication will take place at a variety of levels and the skill with which it is handled will often dictate the ultimate success of the job . |
| 19 | The reason for this is that sperm production takes place at a temperature a couple of degrees lower than body temperature , so the process has to take place outside the body to function properly . |
| 20 | Often students with babies or young children are not able to pay the full cost of a place at a crèche , so usually alternative funding is required . |
| 21 | The festival , organise din association with XFM radio and Riverman concerts , takes place at a series of London venues . |
| 22 | ‘ How to never feel out of place at a social function ’ ( get drunk ? ) |
| 23 | This will take place at a celebration breakfast for Opportunity 2000 's first anniversary on 17 November at the Park Lane Hotel . |
| 24 | A heart-warming incident took place at a little up-country town where we rested to get a midday meal . |
| 25 | If the relocation takes place at a time when it is important for a child to complete a course of education , e.g. GCE examinations , the company will pay reasonable board and lodging costs for the child up to a maximum of £200 per month for the remainder of that school term or until all examinations are complete within that academic year . |
| 26 | ‘ He sent a message to the governor explaining that the thefts continued to take place at a time when the firm had transferred me to England for a period of six months . |
| 27 | These are not , however , the same kind of truth ; for the first holds for all time and every place , whereas the second has to do with a specific event which as a matter of fact took place at a particular point in history . |
| 28 | It has been argued by Clegg ( 1976 ) that in terms of the causal direction of the relationship it is the level of bargaining which determines the degree of centralisation , with the result that power is decentralised within organisations when bargaining takes place at a decentralised level , and vice versa . |
| 29 | Such effects could take place at a number of different levels within the political system : an individual 's relationship to another could change as a result of the media just as an individual 's relationship to an institution could change as an outcome of media work , and so on . |
| 30 | ‘ Sandra Riverton was killed at a remote place at a remote hour . |