Example sentences of "[to-vb] a place [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you should decide to accept a place on a course , do not rush out to buy textbooks until you have finished reading this book , and guidance on returning to learning in particular . |
| 2 | There were strict age limits for entry to the training establishment maintained by the Company to train its recruits , for cadets and writers had to enter within the ages of fifteen and twenty-two , and there was thus great anxiety to secure a place in a director 's list which would ensure that an appointment could be secured before age excluded the candidate for ever . |
| 3 | This can double as the machine teachers use to preview materials and to find a place on a tape before a lesson . |
| 4 | At school leaving age , parents who had previously been able to cope with a child attending or possibly boarding at a special school are faced with the continuing prospect of full time life with their mentally handicapped son or daughter who may be unable to find a place in a training centre or enter full time education . |
| 5 | An education voucher , for example , could be used to obtain a place at a state school , or as part payment of private school fees . |
| 6 | It is not difficult to obtain a place on a committee . |
| 7 | If you had to choose a place for a factory making some similar consumer goods , perhaps pop records , which city , on either side of the Pennines , do you think would be best , and why ? |
| 8 | The last thing I want to do is to share a place with a couch potato . |
| 9 | If as Marx said , the working class have no country , what does it mean to have a place in a culture anyway ? |
| 10 | Forbes managed to get a place on a voyage in the eastern Mediterranean , where HMS Beacon was engaged in a survey . |
| 11 | for example , if you were sacked you can be prepared , not with a feeble-sounding excuse , ‘ The office manager and I did n't hit it off , he was a very difficult man ’ , but with a positive statement , ‘ Yes , the job did n't suit me and I was asked to leave but I was lucky enough to get a place on a word-processing course so I was much better prepared for my next job and I stayed for two years ’ . |
| 12 | If I had failed to get a place in a law school and had been forced to take something else as a second choice then this would have been acceptable . |
| 13 | The result is that once those who are unable to purchase have negotiated their way through the labyrinthine and highly variable eligibility rules to achieve a place on a council housing waiting list , they join a queue which is growing at a faster rate than addition to the council housing stock and which in some cases even exceeds the total number of families housed by the district council . |