Example sentences of "place a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I gave the place a twice-over . |
| 3 | At another place a wife is bidding good-bye to a husband whom duty calls hence . |
| 4 | Under the Financial Services Act , each self-regulatory organisation must have in place a system for dealing with consumer complaints . |
| 5 | I 'd keep the place a bit tidier , too . |
| 6 | You know get a bit of life in the place a bit of zest . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The European Community has put in place a range of measures which are capable over a period of time of leading to a solution . |
| 9 | Often the encoder is visible ( being within the canonical situation of utterance ) and immediately audible and there takes place a kind of indexical reciprocity whereby the specific quality of a deictic expression is only given by the assignment of the extralinguistic referent . |
| 10 | To win a special place a child had to demonstrate ‘ ability to profit ’ from secondary education . |
| 11 | In their place a gang of county council officials in yellow plastic jackets comes once a year to do God knows what , a little genteel scraping , and disappears off the face of the highway for another twelvemonth at least . |
| 12 | The congress confirmed the decline in party authority when it set in place a leadership divorced as never before from the mechanisms of state and government . |
| 13 | Motivating very loving owners to adopt a ‘ nothing in life is free ’ policy can be tough , but a good way is to each place a money box on the mantelpiece . |
| 14 | The University has in place a funding strategy to enable it to achieve this objective ; the funds , however , which it would hope to raise for that purpose would not be available to meet the costs of relocating the medical departments ( see para. 3.1 above ) . |
| 15 | Once in place a flow deflector and venturi unit can be set to ensure the required flow and aeration . |
| 16 | We have in place a framework that will ensure that this country is uniquely advantaged to make the most of the opportunities that will become available in the 1990s . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | And in the middle of the slanting span , circling upon a radius of about three yards , and light enough to maintain its place a foot or so below the surface , something pale and oval went monotonously round and round . |
| 19 | Handover of the building only took place a couple of days earlier so many hands had made it possible for Mass to be celebrated in a beautiful setting . |
| 20 | He wound up at Kemp 's place a couple of years ago . |
| 21 | We need in its place a scheme which is simple , fair and effective , one which people can understand and which delivers help for those who need it most . |
| 22 | The place a hive of industry . |
| 23 | We 've now put in place a performance measurement system that sets out what the job is that people are there to do , what they 're accountable for , what we expect them to achieve and what they are measured on . |
| 24 | In it 's place a memorial to their lost lives . |
| 25 | At the same time today as his funeral was taking place a man charged with his murder was making another appearance in court . |
| 26 | The others held a mixed collection of the minor paperwork of life , some library tickets , the catalogue of a sale of marine painting that had taken place a year ago , the election address of his son-in-law , Vivian Carolan , at the last election , and a few letters , none very recent . |
| 27 | The gathering of about 90 delegates from most Highland denominations took place a year after the churches ' first AIDS conference . |
| 28 | She 's got our number all right an' we 'll 'ave to give this place a miss for a long time after this . |
| 29 | An inglenook , Oh I think it had been a place a sort of built off the fireplace . |
| 30 | MR JUSTICE HUTCHISON said that the applicant was in effect asking the court to declare unlawful the FPC 's use of paragraph 19 provisions in order to put in place a policy for limiting the use of deputising services , save where the power to limit was used for the purpose of keeping the deputising services going properly . |