Example sentences of "place [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The easiest place for a burglar to gain access to a house is through patio doors . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It was eventually agreed that each would pay half this cost and as the junction between the two systems was on a rather narrow section of road at the foot of a hump-backed railway bridge , the boundary was not a suitable place for a change point . |
| 4 | Right I think that Salisbury 's is probably the best place for a back pack do you . |
| 5 | Well , I mean we just said well that 's , you know , an expensive place for a holiday by the sound of it , but erm we had n't got into any details . |
| 6 | During its occupation by Cromwell 's troops , in 1657 , it was found ‘ a fit place for a school ’ and Simon Hornby was master . |
| 7 | But , with fog lying constantly in the valley , it was not a healthy place for a school , and by May more than half the girls were seriously ill with typhus fever . |
| 8 | An enterprising type at the gate sells photocopied plans of the place for a mark apiece . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One of my friends was at Sherborne and speaks very posh — I took him back to my place for a drink one day and my dad was going , ‘ Dennis , listen to Tim , listen — go on , talk , say something ’ and my friend says , ‘ Well I do n't know what to say really , Mr Waterman , ’ and my dad says to me , ‘ Why do n't you talk like that , you could make a fortune . ’ |
| 11 | If not , come back to my place for a drink . |
| 12 | It is an unlikely place for a revolution . |
| 13 | If you are using the divider to separate cichlids or other particularly aggressive fish , it 's wise to leave it in place for a couple of weeks and then only remove the divider at a time when you are likely to be around if trouble occurs . |
| 14 | Bishopstrow House , near Warminster , Wiltshire , is the place for a treat , especially if you 're leaving the children behind . |
| 15 | The purpose of these tests is to look for overstatement or understatement and to examine the quality of management decisions which fall outside the scope of the systems in place for a contract . |
| 16 | So standing , looking for a taxi , on a street , the hour , was no place for a lady . |
| 17 | ‘ 'T IS just that the town is no place for a lady at this time . |
| 18 | It follows that this account finds no place for a notion of acquired equivalence . |
| 19 | I suppose it 's reasonably flat , so it 's quite a good place for a beginner . |
| 20 | While this is less common now you can fit phone sockets all around the house , the hall still provides a useful central place for a phone , and if you decide on this option , you will need a chair , table and space for directories . |
| 21 | Yet my sense that that was the place for a transformation of vision . |
| 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 | The great linden tree , the traditional place for a village parliament , was lopsided even now from missing branches , and the nearest farmhouse was patched with un-matching brickwork and some of the window frames were too square to be old . |
| 24 | To Hazel , it seemed a likely place for a weasel : or the white owl , perhaps , might fly along the escarpment at twilight , looking inwards with its stony eyes , ready to turn a few feet sideways and pick off the shelf anything that moved . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He 's doing a big thesis on the border sites , that 's why he 's working at our place for a year or so . |
| 27 | Most of those ones you can audit , they really are procedures we 've had in place for a year but have been audited before and have had minor changes to erm , the wording . |
| 28 | It was no place for a man to live . |
| 29 | Now that is a job worth having — traditionally the stepping stone to the Cabinet and the place for a man of ideas . |
| 30 | This hidey-hole in the house may have been cunningly and expertly contrived , but it was a bleak and dismal place for a man of thirty to live in . |