Example sentences of "no place [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is no place for a short Sunday afternoon stroll , the paths are very well marked but the going is tough . |
| 2 | BERLIN in 1928 really was no place for a puritan like Elias Canetti . |
| 3 | It was no place for a man to live . |
| 4 | The relationship with Callaghan , who freely confesses he found the Queen 's advice highly supportive , was easier not only because his policies were less socially divisive , but also because , taken to its philosophical conclusion , the Thatcherite dream of a dynamic , enterprise-based meritocracy had no place for a family which reigned simply by blood-right . |
| 5 | The Rowley Mile was certainly no place for a scantily-clad 56-year-old , but needless to say in Piggott 's extraordinary case it made not the slightest difference . |
| 6 | It follows that this account finds no place for a notion of acquired equivalence . |
| 7 | So standing , looking for a taxi , on a street , the hour , was no place for a lady . |
| 8 | Now , at nearly twenty , he was still struggling to pass his Grade 12 examinations in high school , having been assured by his father , the school , and society at large that the world held no place for a boy without his Grade 12 . |
| 9 | There was no place for a young man of humbler origins who had shown what he could do by his own energy and determination . |
| 10 | Apart from the barmaid , we were the only women there , and the two youngest women in our group had a long discussion : one defended the secret solidarity of the men , the other said , " it 's no place for a woman , I could n't stand it . " |
| 11 | An intimate studio is , of course , no place for a dogmatic , hectoring politician . |
| 12 | There is no place for a Profitboss on the board |
| 13 | It was no place for a gentleman . |
| 14 | There is no place for a quality footballer if he believes he is more than just a page in that machine . |
| 15 | There was simply no place for a communist renegade in the Cold War political climate of postwar France . |
| 16 | There seems to be no place for a dying person on the surgical wards . |
| 17 | Of course India is no place for a man of his character . ’ |
| 18 | It was , in short , no place for a gentlemen . |
| 19 | It i5 no place for a wife . ’ |
| 20 | This was no place for a theological argument and it was essential she get on terms . |
| 21 | This house was isolated , no place for a woman alone . |
| 22 | A town filled with disgruntled men-at-arms , more than ready to pick an easy quarrel to pay for the hard one they had lost , was no place for a fugitive Franciscan friar escaped from the Leicester convent , and suspect of treason along with several others of his house , some already executed . |
| 23 | ‘ T is no place for a woman . |
| 24 | ‘ 'T IS just that the town is no place for a lady at this time . |
| 25 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 26 | While US forces are needed , Yugoslavia is no place for a massive ‘ Stormin' Norman ’ style of operation . |
| 27 | No place for a dull ! |
| 28 | Some would argue that these enterprises have no place in a capitalist system , and should therefore be privatised as soon as possible . |
| 29 | But this latter convention has no place in a volume about English local history , or at least none the author has ever discovered . |
| 30 | The main plank in the abolitionist 's platform is that there should be no place in a modern democratic state for a second chamber composed in large part on the principle of heredity and in lesser part on that of nomination . |