Example sentences of "of a place [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was , he thought , one hell of a place for a man to spend a Thursday evening . |
| 3 | A move across cultures for lunch at China Jazz , 29 Parkway , NW1 ( 01–482 3940 ) just around the corner from Camden Market , an ocean liner of a place with a cool Thirties feel ; all bright steel , pale wood and black granite , overseen by punky waiters in designer bow-ties . |
| 4 | Each such pupil also receives a personalised letter reminding them of their entitlement to education and training , and guaranteeing them both an interview with an officer of the Careers Service and an offer of a place on a training scheme , in a job or in continued education . |
| 5 | Sometimes it was the children who forced the pace , pleading in all innocence to join their brothers , sisters , or friends who had somehow won this great distinction of a place on a Kindertransport . |
| 6 | The final fall-back position for this group of very hard to place unemployed people should be the offer of a place on a temporary work scheme . |
| 7 | Any decision on acceptance of an entry profile and offer of a place on a programme of studies is specific to an individual centre and that offer is not necessarily transferable between centres . |
| 8 | Any decision on acceptance of an entry profile and offer of a place on a programme of studies is specific to an individual centre and that offer is not necessarily transferable between centres . |
| 9 | Often students with babies or young children are not able to pay the full cost of a place at a crèche , so usually alternative funding is required . |
| 10 | As a result the educational psychologist had been investigating the possibility of a place at a local special school for Balbinder . |
| 11 | She had been phoning people who might go to Greece with her or drive her there or , failing that , pay her air-fare , and eventually she succeeded in getting a loan from an aunt and an offer of a place in a minibus from an old schoolfellow and her boyfriend . |
| 12 | They were considering the possibility of a place in a special school for children with moderate learning difficulties which could offer ‘ smaller classes and more individual attention ’ . |
| 13 | And she drew his hand closer and laid her cheek on it , so that he knew she , too , was thinking of Bruges , when she had allowed him that right , and of Ghent , and of a place by a waterfall . |