Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [adv] [prep] [art] place " in BNC.

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1 It may be that some hereditary peers are well worth a place , but it is also true that some who are not hereditary peers are equally deserving and it is hard to argue that they should not be considered on their merits on the same basis , with life peerages being conferred on those most suitable .
2 and erm the car 's all over the place because the wheels are all covered in mud and everything so
3 He says , ‘ My mind was much to the place as soon as it was described to me , because it was a full congregation … an ignorant , rude and revelling people for the greater part , who had need of preaching , and yet had among them a small company of converts , who were humble , godly and of good conversations , and not much hated by the rest , and therefore fitter to assist their teacher ; but above all , because they hardly ever had any lively , serious preaching among them .
4 Her lines were all over the place tonight . ’
5 I soon became absolutely obsessed with discovering acanthus everywhere , because the motif is all over the place , in wallpapers , in lampshades — everywhere I found acanthus .
6 So your capillaries are all over the place .
7 And the eggs are all over the place .
8 Statistics are all over the place .
9 ‘ The police are all over the place .
10 I had got what I wanted — his registration number and , in no time at all , the police were all over the place .
11 The '70s thing is all over the place at the moment , it 's when people of my generation were growing up , it 's people 's memories of classic pop imagery from their childhood . ’
12 After another 30 seconds the Vanguard called " BN is established on localiser and glidepath ; the ADF 's all over the place in this weather " .
13 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 .
14 ITN 's political match-summariser says that ‘ individually the polls are all over the place , but put them all together and you get a message you can trust ’ — not a science graduate , presumably .
15 Despite the fact that spiders are all over the place in Dostoevsky , not just in Svidrigailov 's dirty bathhouse vision of Eternity , and that urban potted plants go back to the beginning in Poor People , we are here firmly inside Crime and Punishment in its abandoned first-person narrative form ( ‘ I am on trial and will tell all ’ ) : Petersburg evenings and their hanging summer light , noises from below , happy workmen , blessed ‘ living life ’ elsewhere , a lonely man in pain passing through gates , over thresholds , slipping up and down staircases , the buzzing By of Raskolnikov 's dream and his awakening , intense time-consciousness alternating with time-oblivion .
16 employ twelve hundred people , much of their traffic passes through Bungay , their products , their employee and supplies are all over the place and their products are distributed country-wide , much of their traffic goes through Bungay , and I think they both have plans to extend their plants both er Buxton and Bernard Matthews .
17 She said erm her marks were all over the place .
18 The Market 's all over the place . ’
19 And then she 's , you 're trying to feed her and the , the dinner 's all over the place .
20 Left was away from the place the Mobile had last seen him , away from Neptune Court .
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