Example sentences of "place [prep] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are using the divider to separate cichlids or other particularly aggressive fish , it 's wise to leave it in place for a couple of weeks and then only remove the divider at a time when you are likely to be around if trouble occurs . |
| 2 | It follows that this account finds no place for a notion of acquired equivalence . |
| 3 | Yet my sense that that was the place for a transformation of vision . |
| 4 | Now that is a job worth having — traditionally the stepping stone to the Cabinet and the place for a man of ideas . |
| 5 | This hidey-hole in the house may have been cunningly and expertly contrived , but it was a bleak and dismal place for a man of thirty to live in . |
| 6 | Of course India is no place for a man of his character . ’ |
| 7 | They see a place for a Bill of Rights , a written constitution and constitutional court ; they want to increase the checks on government through a more balanced constitution consequent upon the establishment of a reformed , elected , second chamber with increased powers of delay ; and they look to a revival of the position of Parliament and parliamentary government . |
| 8 | There were also some roadworks along the route and we did not pass our usual stopping place for a cup of tea so we pressed straight on to Brighton . ’ |
| 9 | These are sometimes designed to take place for a period of time such as a day or a week . |
| 10 | And we 're shortly to appoint some erm consultant assessor who will assess our system , and we will run our , have our system in place for a period of about four months . |
| 11 | No further work has taken place for a number of weeks , the barriers have fallen down , one of the warning lights has been thrown into the river and another has been thrown into the hedge several times . |
| 12 | He was in Dublin — an improbable place for a display of Pacific oratory — when he declared : |
| 13 | This is hardly the place for a dissertation of magnetic monopoles ; indeed , with luck , you can hope to avoid a single mention of the grand Universal Theories ( called GUTs ) that predict them . |
| 14 | The ‘ video conference ’ then takes place for a fee of between £80 and £120 for half an hour . |
| 15 | As the result of the demolition of the colleges of education in the 1970s and the mergers that took place between a number of colleges and polytechnics , the latter now have a major stake in teacher education . |
| 16 | Such a request was made to Thomas Dundas by four of the councillors of Dunfermline who pressed him to use his interest with Lord Sandwich to get Midshipman Ebenezer Fish serving on board the Warwick a place as a lieutenant of marines , since the marine officers were not required to have the years of sea-service demanded of naval lieutenants . |
| 17 | His closeness to the king and his enthusiasm for the war would have ensured him a place as a leader of the younger generation of nobles , and his death was yet another misfortune for the king . |
| 18 | An excellent example of the role of a place as a focus of collective identity is provided by one of the major events in British industrial relations in recent decades — the National Union of Mineworkers ' strike of March 1984 to March 1985 . |
| 19 | My Lord the er case moves on there over the page now to the twenty fourth of September and on that day Mr was notified erm by his bank on the telephone that head office had approved the finance proposal in principal and as a result of that Mr then telephone Peter , the defendant , told him that the financing for this deal had been approved in principal and Mr asked Mr to provide a bankers draft of some seven and a half thousand pounds in order to enable exchange to take place as a matter of urgency . |
| 20 | Colonial government is presented as a largely apolitical , administrative business , unrelated to any economic and social changes which might be taking place as a consequence of colonial domination and exploitation ( Eisenstadt 1963 ) . |
| 21 | Transformation of individual structures , as he puts it , does take place directly through participation in the communal life of the sangha , and transformation of social structures takes place as a result of the interaction of the life of the sangha with the life of the community surrounding it . |
| 22 | That shift will take place as a result of three forces . |
| 23 | Learning takes place as a result of these conversations . |
| 24 | As we have seen , for example , the raw fact that an admission to care takes place as a result of a care order made by the court , and thus appears in official statistics as further evidence of compulsion , may tell us little about how this action is experienced either by the child or by his or her family . |
| 25 | But I think it tends to save any type of … any misunderstandings that may later take place as a result of it being a one-on-one deal . |
| 26 | Many things had fallen into place as a result of his father 's explanation : drawings on lavatory walls , the shape of girl babies , the strange scufflings in Jimmy Thompson 's rabbit hutch when they put the black buck Jumbo in with Snow White … |
| 27 | It will be their aesthetic appreciation , economic system and technological abilities which will be the real determinants on any settlement changes that take place as a result of exploiting the new material . |
| 28 | Students will be asked to monitor their own personal and social development which has taken place as a result of work experience and to review this in conjunction with the tutor . |
| 29 | Students will be asked to monitor their own personal and social development which has taken place as a result of the experience and to review this in conjunction with the tutor . |
| 30 | Given that the first best solution of achieving SEM type trade liberalisation on a global basis is not possible because of very large economic and political problems , the second best SEM programme may not be harmful to world trade providing that an expansion in world trade takes place as a result of this programme . |