Example sentences of "place [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Greenock does not seem a very inviting place for the pleasure-seeker at any time ; in rainy weather its attractions are not heightened . |
| 2 | Many of the relatives and friends who rated the homes as an excellent place for the person who died to live towards the end of his or her life made rather perfunctory comments : ‘ I ca n't fault the home ’ ; ‘ It was very nice , no qualms about it . ’ |
| 3 | There is no place for the child to play . |
| 4 | In consequence , even when the insider retires and ostensibly leaves the family , he will be expected to maintain his silence , and although bland hagiographic biography has been acceptable in the past , there has been no place for the espionage of critical ethnography . |
| 5 | Since as Jack Droney put it , Brent , with its left-wing trade unionists , ‘ was a bloody good place for the Grunwick strike to happen ’ , one might expect that the union involved had given the strikers not only support but increased impetus in their struggles , but members of the strike committee certainly did not feel this to be so . |
| 6 | FI is no place for the ageing . |
| 7 | We are committed to the highest safety and environmental standards and put great store by the contractual arrangements in place for the return of wastes . |
| 8 | Competition could be fierce , as a young Dundee officer discovered when even the influence of the powerful David Scott failed to secure him a place for the voyage of 1801 because |
| 9 | He completed a three-match ban last weekend but could not win back his place for the Coca-Cola Cup against Crewe . |
| 10 | It is easy to say one of two things : either that such women find an outlet for their mothering instincts through other channels , or that they have no place for the mothering urge within their lives . |
| 11 | Daru booked his place for the Cesarewitch at Newmarket on October 17 when completing a hat-trick at York yesterday . |
| 12 | True , he says , but it is a fine place for the smell . |
| 13 | And now , as the sentences are somewhere , we look for a place for the thought … |
| 14 | Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 87 of the Act of 1985 required that the successor to a tenancy should have resided with the tenant during the period of 12 months ending with the tenant 's death , but did not require the residence to have taken place for the whole of that period in the premises to which succession was claimed ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to succeed to his deceased brother 's tenancy ( post , pp. 133B–E , 135C–F ) . |
| 15 | This protection for the local authority does not require the residence to have taken place for the whole 12 months in the house to which succession is claimed . |
| 16 | for its test or trial for the benefit of a prospective purchaser , for proceeding at the instance of a prospective purchaser to any place for the purpose of such test or trial , or for returning after such test or trial ; |
| 17 | for its test or trial for the benefit of a person interested in promoting publicity in regard to it , for proceeding at the instance of such a person to any place for the purpose of such test or trial , or for returning after such test or trial ; |
| 18 | Originally the forum was a business centre and market place for the inhabitants of the three surrounding hills — Palatine , Capitoline and Esquiline . |
| 19 | ‘ It would be difficult to imagine a less likely looking place for the continuation of the great trade route into Chinese Turkestan . |
| 20 | England under Cromwell and Cranmer was now probably a less dangerous place for the Reformers than the Low Countries . |
| 21 | The direct consequence of this principle is the reduction of all genres to only one ; if the rules of a genre contradict this verisimilitude , the genre is suppressed : in the doctrine of naturalism , there is no place for the poem . |
| 22 | The mechanisms are more transparently in place for the transfer of resources from poor to rich . |
| 23 | No no I have a place for the mince as yet . |
| 24 | If that should change , the Williamson scheme would be a good place for the discussion to start . |
| 25 | This is not to say that there is no place for the principle of legality in constitutional matters . |
| 26 | The Tower served a number of purposes , not least as a public record office and a meeting place for the Council 's chief administrators . |
| 27 | A boat was not the best place for the kind of romance Aveling preferred . |
| 28 | Somehow it conjures images of smuggling days , perhaps because of its standing as the chief gathering place for the seafarers of former times . |
| 29 | The desecration of the cave , a holy place for the Indians who lived in the Mojave Desert , caused an uproar . |
| 30 | He 's invited us over to his place for the circus and if we like it we can have one here . |