Example sentences of "a place [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of 1987 , three years after the conference ‘ A place For All Our Children ’ , one council day centre offered a place to a child with a ‘ learning difficulty ’ . |
| 2 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
| 3 | The move is more or less an insurance policy that Apple will at least have a place as a client in the enterprise . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ IT really is a friendly and fun restaurant ; not a place for a tête à tête . |
| 8 | The deal includes a place for a Taiyo Kobe employee on the Credito Commerciale board . |
| 9 | If , for example , eligibility for a grant for education , or for council housing , or for employment in the public service , or for a place for a child at a school of first choice , were to be assessed by reference to the citizenship record of the applicant , then this would put considerable pressure on many people to perform these ‘ voluntary obligations ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I would have thought with 50,000 men training already under General Richardson to fight for Northern Ireland there was a place for a fine young Ulsterman like you . ’ |
| 11 | If you had to choose a place for a factory making some similar consumer goods , perhaps pop records , which city , on either side of the Pennines , do you think would be best , and why ? |
| 12 | ‘ There 's a time and a place for a joke , but this is n't it . |
| 13 | He found a place for a year in the household of a wealthy London merchant where he started to translate the New Testament ; it became clear , however , that there was no possibility of printing it in England , so in 1524 he left for Germany , never to return . |
| 14 | But Wilson had been immeasurably kind to him , found a place for a very square peg in his government and , in 1967 , when he no longer had room in his government for Wigg , created him a peer and was at pains to find him a suitable job as chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | Whether or not there is a place for a trade union Ombudsman to carry out investigations and give general advice to unions , it is considered that this task should not be given to the Commissioner in view of the benefit to be derived from her maintaining an independent position . |
| 18 | Love Lane ( what a place for a cop shop ! ) was n't actually the nearest nick to where we were , but I did n't think about that . |
| 19 | It was , he thought , one hell of a place for a man to spend a Thursday evening . |
| 20 | Er well we would we would record them and and that would be it you know but we would have a fair idea when we 'd be recording the album like that you know there 's always be a place in a Foster and Allen programme for a Beautiful Dreamer so if you get a sound that 's pretty close to that there 'll always be a place for a an up tempo sound that that Mick would do so you have to sort of pick ones with a good story line and a good melody and again that you can work a good video round you know . |
| 21 | The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him . |
| 22 | For three weeks we have no proper political events , of the sort that would earn a place on a news programme under normal circumstances . |
| 23 | A lot can be learned about a place on a long Sunday morning run . |
| 24 | Look straight ahead as if gazing at a place on a wall . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He had lost his job because of the incident , but had later found a place on a youth training scheme , magistrates were told . |
| 27 | for example , if you were sacked you can be prepared , not with a feeble-sounding excuse , ‘ The office manager and I did n't hit it off , he was a very difficult man ’ , but with a positive statement , ‘ Yes , the job did n't suit me and I was asked to leave but I was lucky enough to get a place on a word-processing course so I was much better prepared for my next job and I stayed for two years ’ . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | ‘ I had to fight for a place on a packed plane and , after much pleading , they finally knocked someone off their list . |
| 30 | If so , you could be in line to win a place on a 10-month MBA course at INSEAD , courtesy of Arthur Andersen and Cosmopolitan magazine . |