Example sentences of "place [prep] a [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Same day , same place for a previously unknown album of 60 drawings by Henri Fuseli , acquired by a London couple a few years ago . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The best place for a mentally handicapped person is with their family , but this may not always be possible , particularly as the person grows older . |
| 4 | One journalist went so far as to assert , ‘ Carter should have little trouble with Congress ’ , while Professor Ross Baker noted that ‘ the basic elements are in place for a highly satisfactory relationship between Carter and Congress … there is no reason to forecast discord between the White House and Capitol Hill . |
| 5 | These criticisms are , however , minor and the book retains its unique place as a well from which all concerned with statutory interpretation must regularly quaff . |
| 6 | That is , the employer will have places for a very small number of newcomers to the profession who are not yet union members . |
| 7 | It is a name that has certainly had its share of exposure ever since the 19-year old batsman arrived in England to take the place of Australia 's tearaway fast bowler Craig McDermott , The editorial in the May issue made passing reference to the volte face implicit in a very good batsman taking the place of a very good bowler . |
| 8 | Rather than dampen the festivities , the storm initiated a whole new cycle of tumult with ensuing days and nights of ritual cockfighting which took place beneath a hastily assembled palm-thatched enclosure in the centre of the Rante , observable by the throng from the protection of the slanting gables of the surrounding houses . |
| 9 | From the bifurcation of the two routes , Cool for Cats moves airily up the shallowest of grooves above the semi-rest , with more Stennis jugs for company , to a stopping place beneath a faintly bulging section which bars entry to the more pronounced line on the right flank of the blunt arête . |
| 10 | Zelinsky 's description of the South as ‘ so distinct from the non-South in almost every observable or quantifiable feature and so fiercely jealous of its peculiarities ’ ( p. 122 ) , at least until the present century , suggests a place with a clearly identifiable culture of its own , even though it is large and , on many criteria , heterogeneous . |
| 11 | THERE never was a leader who came from a place with a more appropriate name . |
| 12 | The Manchester United striker hit the perfect response to the new French threat to his place with a typically superb volley in a 2-1 triumph . |
| 13 | It likes damp , moist , airless places with a slightly more alkaline pH than is normally found in the vagina ( normally slightly acid ) . |
| 14 | The steepening of the lee slope by accumulation at the top goes on until the angle of rest of the material is exceeded ( AB on Fig. 11.6c ) , when shearing takes place along a slightly less steep surface ( CD on Fig. 11.6c ) . |
| 15 | This suggests that in more favourable employment conditions it is easier to find a permanent job from which to continue one 's job search — in other words , that the search could take place from a more secure base . |
| 16 | The talks had taken place in a remarkably cordial atmosphere , and at a joint press conference at their conclusion on May 4 , de Klerk declared that he regarded the working document [ see below ] as " an important breakthrough in the peaceful process " , while Mandela said that as a result " not only are we closer to one another , but we are all of us victors " . |
| 17 | My contention is that the events of October 1962 took place in a very specific historical context in terms of the Soviet appraisal of global power relations . |
| 18 | The creation and keeping of records in a local authority takes place in a very specific political , legal and geographical context — with all the social and cultural connotations that come with records-keeping in the public domain . |
| 19 | Petersfield Rugby Club are helping Mrs. Bulmer organise a May Ball as a fund-raising event , and it will take place in a specially erected marquee at Penns Place adjacent to the club on May 1st . |
| 20 | We should not , however , imagine that such exchange activities had to take place in a permanently occupied urban settlement . |
| 21 | Birthday Offering Precise and accurately placed enchaînements and éaulement give a clear definition to each step and pose as it takes its place in a perfectly balanced design . |
| 22 | Crime and Punishment takes its place in a perfectly obvious and open fashion among the international classics of naturalism ( or realism ) , and it is the first of his novels to do so : the earlier and great book The House of the Dead walks so close beside personal history as to rule itself out in this connection ; formally it is a freak , so I argued , a quasi-novel ; and as regards fact and fiction , since he is recounting not ‘ prophesying events ’ , Dostoevsky can not have found much in the Dead House to get excited about . |
| 23 | When industrialization takes place within a predominantly inegalitarian society , ‘ the technology and organizational work patterns developed by the dominant groups are likely to be those that reinforce , can be adapted to , or at least not incompatible with , existing hierarchical structure of social control ’ ( Fox 1980 , p. 182 ) . |
| 24 | Particular emphasis is being placed upon comparing those collaborations which happen spontaneously and those which take place within a publicly sponsored programme . |
| 25 | These two documents named places over a very wide area of Italy ( the duchy of Rome , Tuscany , the Campagna , the Ravenna exarchate , Pentapolis , Sabina ) rather than defined frontiers . |
| 26 | While cases remained open , re-assessment for one of the same group of services took place to a more marked extent in the generic team and by the individual specialist than in the specialist team . |
| 27 | Retrospectively we know that capital outflow took place on a very large scale , amounting to £1,500 million in 1947–9 , well in excess of the receipts from the US loan . |
| 28 | Repayments generally take place on a half-yearly or annual basis . |
| 29 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |
| 30 | Comparison of the contents of the first two editions of Craig 's ‘ Geology of Scotland ’ , published in 1965 and 1983 , reveals just how completely and all-pervasively this change took place over a very short period of time . |