Example sentences of "place [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the tutorial is a place for ideas as well as practice , and if they are well used they can help an actor to be more objective about the craft . |
| 2 | Perhaps that is why I 'm not all that much attached to being part of a permanent company for too long — I get bored by being around in one place for too long . |
| 3 | It is the most important medium for getting known by the general public and affecting the attitude of employers but the theatre is still the best place for learning your trade . |
| 4 | Perhaps in art today there is no longer a place for middles , he wrote . |
| 5 | Yet my sense that that was the place for a transformation of vision . |
| 6 | If top panel is without perspective and bottom is nothing but perspective , then is that not the place for a different kind of vision ? |
| 7 | This is the pub as social institution , so much more than just a place for drinking . |
| 8 | There is still a place for it , mainly in institutional catering , but most people think it tastes like cardboard . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ What better place for an engagement party à deux ? ’ said the baronet , pouring out wine . |
| 10 | The Festival has always been a popular meeting place for people interested in all areas of film and television , and this year we are pleased to host a one day workshop for BLACK WOMEN WRITERS . |
| 11 | Place the container in the dark in a cool place for 8–10 weeks , checking from time to time to see if the water needs topping up . |
| 12 | A place for all kinds of wildlife to stop off and drink , it will attract them like a magnet . |
| 13 | At this stage cut off the complete head and invert it in a paper bag , hanging these in an airy place for a few days until the seeds are quite dry . |
| 14 | No place for nigella |
| 15 | In very strong winds the critical place for ground handling is at the tail . |
| 16 | If you live in a conventional two-storey house , the best place for a single alarm is above the bottom of the staircase . |
| 17 | They will want to know that you have a safe , warm place for children to play , and that your kitchen and toilet facilities are adequate . |
| 18 | Must be used with a spermicide and left in place for six hours after intercourse . |
| 19 | Always the demand is for ‘ practical ’ skills , while academic analysis remains a despised pastime , so that even the Superintendents ' Association ( the equivalent of the Police Federation for the lower ranks ) has similarly denied any place for intellectualism for its members . |
| 20 | In consequence , even when the insider retires and ostensibly leaves the family , he will be expected to maintain his silence , and although bland hagiographic biography has been acceptable in the past , there has been no place for the espionage of critical ethnography . |
| 21 | Crime prevention is despised work for detectives for it holds no place for the drama of the chase and no opportunity for the symbolic warfare which exists in the battles between ‘ polises ’ and ‘ prigs ’ . |
| 22 | This retreat into the safety of headquarters with its separation from reality is the route for these ‘ bastards with no teeth ’ ; it is the rightful place for those ‘ nine-til-five administrators who turn up when real polises have been up and at it for hours , and then ask their daft questions because of their lack of practical experience ’ . |
| 23 | But this should not obscure from us the fact that Judaism resisted stoutly the prudery that stultified sexuality throughout the West , and always retained a high and honoured place for bodily functioning and its pleasures — as becomes indeed , a gift from God : ‘ Man and woman are one body and one soul , ( oneness reasserted , as ever ) , and it is this powerful union which it projects and enhances . |
| 24 | The ‘ Quiet Revolution ’ which was beginning to take place in Canada was now seizing Leonard himself ; he would be a poet-writer , and be would find a place for his music alongside it . |
| 25 | Here , on a small island of some 2,000 or so souls , pocketed by the encircling hills around its charming port , was the ideal place for him to gather his thoughts and address himself more seriously than he had been able to do in busy Montreal , grim London or frenetic New York . |
| 26 | ‘ Wonderful place for a short break . |
| 27 | At the far end a rocky promontory extended into deep water — a promising place for snorkelling . |
| 28 | A boat was not the best place for the kind of romance Aveling preferred . |
| 29 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 30 | ‘ The pub is a place for men , not women ’ … |