Example sentences of "place [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A good place for a separate cubicle is in a corner , because two of the necessary walls already exist , and only have to tiled .
2 Many tournaments ( as you emphasised ) , have been in place for a long time and often with the same people running them for decades .
3 I 've knocked about a bit in the last few years I suppose , but I was always restless until I came to a very ordinary house in a rather dingy London suburb , where there was a large and interesting family who had been in the same place for a long time .
4 Such a process has been taking place for a long time .
5 I really believe he could n't stand the boredom of being in one place for a long time , listening to other people . ’
6 Privately , senior party members claim women do not put themselves forward , are not up to the job and stress that most male MPs have been in place for a long time .
7 This is not the place for a long explanation or analysis of the history of the period , but a brief resume may be beneficial for some readers .
8 The committees could find ‘ a nice place for a nice boy ’ , wrote Bray , but the problem remained untouched , in part because apprenticeship alone was no solution .
9 The latter accepts shelf-life [ i.e. that books will be available in the same place for a reasonable period of time ] as part of the process , the librarian-disposer wants quick clearance .
10 Aside from the fact that I use this place for a specific purpose — a purpose that requires privacy , peace and quiet — it might lead to considerable misunderstandings .
11 If the latter were the case , we would expect no accommodation to take place for a specific variable until that variable had already been used by the interlocutor .
12 Whether or not you accept Idso 's claims , surely this is just the place for a critical appraisal of them ?
13 The surrounding path system makes the area an ideal place for a pleasant walk .
14 There was simply no place for a communist renegade in the Cold War political climate of postwar France .
15 He said : ‘ It wo n't be long before this area of town is the only place for a good night out . ’
16 Speaking in a Belfast safe house a hooded IRA member claimed it had enough explosives and terrorists in place for a major offensive .
17 There was no place for a young man of humbler origins who had shown what he could do by his own energy and determination .
18 A thousand feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be — especially with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand .
19 Just 1,000 feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be , especially one with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand !
20 It 's not a fit place for a young girl to be . ’
21 ‘ And it 's not a fit place for a young girl to have a baby , ’ snapped McAllister , who had just seen that his patient was little more than a child , ‘ but she 's having one , all the same .
22 Dr Neil could have given her several answers , beginning with the beautiful hands lying in her lap which had visibly never done a stroke of work in their owner 's life , but said instead , ‘ A strange place for a young lady like yourself to look for it . ’
23 Did n't happen any town that I knew of except London and I can understand why they did it in London — very expensive place for a young detective to make a shape — cost too much money keeping in front of your job there .
24 ‘ Nor are the roads between here and Mdina any place for a young woman alone . ’
25 THE MIDDLE of the road is a dangerous place for a young pop band to pitch its tent — so many that do so are run over by press disfavour and public disinterest .
26 THE MIDDLE of the road is a dangerous place for a young pop band to pitch its tent — so many that do so are run over by press disfavour and public disinterest .
27 Not all that distant from the rocky stretches and barren wastes of Mayo and Connemara , Longford might n't be the most profitable place for a wandering fiddler , Owen thought .
28 In those circumstances does he think that there is a place for a new organ donor card , which has to be countersigned by next of kin ?
29 They gave the de Klerk proposals a cautious welcome but called for sanctions to remain strictly in force until all arrangements were in place for a new constitution and democratic elections .
30 This is not the place for a jurisprudential exegesis on the nature of discretion .
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