Example sentences of "place at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end we had to settle for a hurried and depressing buffet in the North British Hotel , with a menu which would not have been out of place at a Sunday-school picnic . |
| 2 | While this is not insignificant ( a weakness of the lecture or the teacher-directed lesson is that it must take place at a pre-set time irrespective of student readiness ) it is hardly Liberty Hall . |
| 3 | This cleaning takes place at a definite cleaning station , usually by a large rock or near some other bold feature on the sea bed . |
| 4 | However , the change is taking place at a differential rate which seems to be related to the relative prestige of the various media . |
| 5 | It has been argued by Clegg ( 1976 ) that in terms of the causal direction of the relationship it is the level of bargaining which determines the degree of centralisation , with the result that power is decentralised within organisations when bargaining takes place at a decentralised level , and vice versa . |
| 6 | At the stage in the growth of a scientific discovery when it is no longer just internal but has not yet become a formal paper , then the scholarly interchange would have depended on whom individuals knew or knew of , the letter writing would be unmanaged and survive by chance ( often only one side of the story ) and , due to concern that ideas should not be stolen , may only have taken place at a late stage of the discovery process . |
| 7 | ‘ Sandra Riverton was killed at a remote place at a remote hour . |
| 8 | Besides a number of activities which took place at a regional level , many more were carried on throughout the year by its corporate and personal members . |
| 9 | He was sentenced to two years in prison , and was ordered to pay back to the state several thousand Swiss francs which he had used illegally to arrange a place at a Swiss university for Zhivkov 's grandson [ see p. 38017 ] . |
| 10 | In order to avoid disputes and unnecessary duplication of effort , where work requires remeasurement this will take place at a joint meeting of the builder 's surveyor and the sub-contractor . |
| 11 | The infrastructure to usher in the brave new world of interactive multimedia applications is being put in place at a breakneck pace in the US , and Englewood , Colorado cable television operator Tele-Communications Inc has just announced plans to invest $1,900m to install fibre optic cable in 250 cities , towns and counties by 1996 . |
| 12 | ( 5 ) Where under a contract of sale the transfer of the property in the goods is to take place at a future time or subject to some condition later to be fulfilled the contract is called an agreement to sell . |
| 13 | The problem essentially is that you have got simultaneously to account credibly for someone not being at a certain place at a certain time and to account for them precisely being there . |
| 14 | Even if he is murdered by a homicidal maniac he has chosen to be at a certain place at a certain time . |
| 15 | A place at grammar school was seen as hardly more genuinely open to everyone than a fee-paying place at a public school ; and so the move towards comprehensive schools was made , largely on grounds of justice . |
| 16 | The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish . |
| 17 | A 20Mb/second SCSI-2 interface connects the host system and the array , allowing backup to take place at a sustained rate of 3.5Gb per hour . |
| 18 | ( An event in this sense is something that takes place at a single point in space , at a specified point in time . ) |
| 19 | Cross-sectional studies take place at a single point of time ( although the ‘ point ’ may in practice cover several months ) . |
| 20 | If the reconnection were to take place at a steady rate , the ion energy would show a continuous latitudinal dispersion . |
| 21 | Puddephat had refused to take his place at a formal dinner to welcome the new master of his college because he had been placed opposite Dr Theodore Sykes , a fellow member of the English faculty . |
| 22 | The basic idea is that in order to study a single linguistic feature , the investigator will elicit a set word or phrase in entirely naturalistic conditions from persons who happen to be in a given place at a given time . |
| 23 | Without concentrations of activity at a given place at a given time there would be no patterns , no spatial or areal differentiation . |
| 24 | So doing the foundation course here gives me the chance to get a place at a Czech University . |
| 25 | Technical change within the IT sector is taking place at a fast pace as data processing , microchips , telecommunications , image broadcasting and satellite transmission coalesce . |
| 26 | At various points in the early 1980s consideration was given by the Conservatives to the idea of introducing a ‘ voucher ’ system , designed to enable parents to exercise their choice by ‘ buying ’ a place at a particular school . |
| 27 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
| 28 | Singular statements , unlike a second class of statements that we will meet shortly , refer to a particular occurrence or state of affairs at a particular place at a particular time . |
| 29 | It follows that behind every statement we make about the historical Jesus there has to be a tacit qualification : ‘ We are told this by such-and-such an evangelist , writing in a particular literary mode , far a particular audience , in a particular place at a particular period of history . ’ |
| 30 | These are not , however , the same kind of truth ; for the first holds for all time and every place , whereas the second has to do with a specific event which as a matter of fact took place at a particular point in history . |