Example sentences of "place for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This aquatic ferris wheel churns the Bay 's waters into a brackish and turbid soup — an inhospitable place for many types of life . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | What it 's revealed , totally unexpectedly is the vast extent to which inappropriate placements have taken place for many years . |
| 11 | From her experience Derry is a tragic place for many young men . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | No , Dudley House is the proper place for such as your grandfather . |
| 17 | In institutional care there should be no place for such people . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Lazonby seems a strange place for such lofty thoughts . |
| 20 | ‘ The discussions have been taking place for such a long time that I rather got used to the idea that I should be leaving . |
| 21 | Apart from selling books , the locale also provided a meeting place for such gatherings as ‘ Better Books writers nights ’ , and in February/March 1965 housed ‘ the sTigma environmental exhibition ’ , which included amongst its contributors Jeff Nuttall , and amongst its inspirations Alex Trocchi 's Sigma , a Tactical Blueprint-drawing for its inspiration on the International Situationists . |
| 22 | Keele is the place for such controversial discussion and conversation upon this very important subject continued long after the speaker and the audience had left the lecture room . |
| 23 | Hundreds more are in our prisons , which are the wrong place for such people . |
| 24 | If we subscribe to a truth-conditional semantics , we shall therefore be forced to find a place for such meanings in pragmatic theory . |
| 25 | I would , myself , be very keen to look at the possibility of such machines perhaps even going to third world countries , because it 's even arguable that the place for such intelligence systems is not to replace expert medical people in this country where we have such people , but to export them to developing countries which do n't have such people , and one could imagine , perhaps , a system of erm paramedical orderlies , who had some sort of medical knowledge and manipulative skill , taking a small expert computer in a shoe box — it would be no bigger — to villages and getting diagnoses of patient illnesses there on the spot . |
| 26 | A place for all kinds of wildlife to stop off and drink , it will attract them like a magnet . |
| 27 | Just across the road from the beach of Palma nova as well as all the shops and restaurants along the sea front , this friendly hotel could not be in a better place for all the attractions Palma Nova has to offer . |
| 28 | Regular and straightforward tests will be in place for all 7 , 11 and 14 year-olds by 1994 . |
| 29 | The rewards will be improvements in the quality of relationships and in the effectiveness of the school , measuring how the school has become a nicer place for all , calls for changes to be shown across a range of measures : |
| 30 | If the focus is that the school is a good place for all , that it gives as well as takes , then it can gain a great deal of positive publicity . |