Example sentences of "place [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason , quite simply , is that architects find work where the market for their skill is most lucrative , and in Britain that tends to be on sites where intensive development has taken place for generations , particularly the commercial centres and inner suburbs of big cities . |
| 2 | This is a fantastic place for birdwatchers — puffin , falcon , raven , gannet , guillemot and cormorants , to name but a few , make their homes along the coastline and on its islands for part of the year . |
| 3 | As these sales have evolved from the original trading of bric-a-brac and home produce to an open market for all goods , this has proved a lucrative market place for groups trading in illegal software . |
| 4 | She rang me the other day and said , ‘ I 've found this marvellous place for clothes — get in the car and we 'll go . ’ |
| 5 | Meanwhile , in Edinburgh , there were also a number of deaf adults , former pupils of the Edinburgh Institution , who desired a meeting place for prayers and social contact . |
| 6 | By this time the port was the third largest in England for imports , after London and Liverpool , and was only beaten into fourth place for exports by Newcastle . |
| 7 | I open the throttle a bit and head out into the sound , where the tide flows strongly and it is a favoured feeding place for auks . |
| 8 | I enjoy making my flat a pleasant , welcoming and restful place for others as well . |
| 9 | I hope that my new home will be very much a friendly place for others . |
| 10 | It took us over an hour the following morning to get through this pass , a notorious place for ambushes . |
| 11 | They do nt even create his goals — he s just got that luck/knack of being in the right place for deflections etc . |
| 12 | Perhaps in art today there is no longer a place for middles , he wrote . |
| 13 | It was also a likely place for lies told by a courier to be exposed , by the host of speed that gather there , Famlio and otherwise . |
| 14 | The fairs could last for up to forty-nine days and became a meeting place for merchants from Spain , Italy , England , the Low Countries and other parts of France . |
| 15 | Objections were also raised ( as in 1314 ) to being called to meet in Westminster , the usual venue of parliament , instead of at St Paul 's , the normal place for gatherings of the southern clergy ; in 1322 the southern clergy objected to a summons to meet at York in the northern province ; in May 1314 and April 1316 objections were raised to the presence of lay councillors of the king . |
| 16 | She would redesign the apartment , transform it so that it became a proper home , a space where friends could come , a place for gatherings , a home like the Princesse 's which always hummed . |
| 17 | Not only should school be a good place for children but a good place for teachers and other adult workers too ! |
| 18 | My rose-growing Surrey headmaster ( by now retired ) came to Banbury for a weekend , and as we drove off to the Cotswolds he tried to persuade me that the implication of all this was that secondary schools would no longer be a worthwhile place for teachers with academic interests : all the good work would hereafter be done within an inflated system of higher education . |
| 19 | Similarly , residential care has been preferred at some times more than others , so until the eighteenth century in the Netherlands and Flanders the foster family was seen as the best place for orphans , foundlings , and abandoned children and has long been extensively used to care for needy children in Scotland ( Packman , 1975 ; Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Pyck et al . , |
| 20 | It provides a pleasant and relaxing place for businessmen to meet and talk about problems they might have and how they cope with them . ’ |
| 21 | Next week it will launch the Novell Network Registry — not a place for networks to take solemn vows but a user service designed to eliminate conflicts between names and addresses on NetWare internetworks . |
| 22 | Griffiths ' plans thus once again brought local government firmly to centre stage as the proper place for initiatives for the local population . |
| 23 | In the 1840s the Montpellier Pleasure Gardens was a favourite place for visitors to take a constitutional stroll before breakfast . |
| 24 | We have managed to keep the lounge to ourselves , after all you have to have one hair-free place for visitors . |
| 25 | What does the map show about Bristol being a suitable place for managers to have their wholesale warehouses ? |
| 26 | ‘ Out of doors is the best place for Brownies , really , but we 've only been able to be out of doors so much because of this hot summer . |
| 27 | It would be a thrilling place for Brownies to meet in — both girls agreed about that . |
| 28 | Pocklington beck , which played a large part in the 13th and 14th centuries , though no longer used for the running of mills or for carrot washing , is a favourite place for youngsters who paddle in it or catch tiddlers . |
| 29 | It 's the sort of establishment formerly called a List D school , a place for youngsters who have , for example , committed offences or were beyond parental control . |
| 30 | The Warehousemen 's and Cutter 's Union might not seem the obvious place for compositors — even women — to find a welcome . |