Example sentences of "place [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | FI is no place for the ageing . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | True , he says , but it is a fine place for the smell . |
| 10 | And now , as the sentences are somewhere , we look for a place for the thought … |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ; |
| 14 | 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 ; |
| 15 | ‘ It would be difficult to imagine a less likely looking place for the continuation of the great trade route into Chinese Turkestan . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The mechanisms are more transparently in place for the transfer of resources from poor to rich . |
| 18 | No no I have a place for the mince as yet . |
| 19 | If that should change , the Williamson scheme would be a good place for the discussion to start . |
| 20 | This is not to say that there is no place for the principle of legality in constitutional matters . |
| 21 | The Tower served a number of purposes , not least as a public record office and a meeting place for the Council 's chief administrators . |
| 22 | A boat was not the best place for the kind of romance Aveling preferred . |
| 23 | He 's invited us over to his place for the circus and if we like it we can have one here . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ Everything is very cheap but it is not a place for the vegetarian , the food consists mainly of red meat and cabbage . ’ |
| 25 | There was a minute cabin on the barge , no more than a place for the bargee to take shelter . |
| 26 | His supporters , Baldwin said , thought that he should meet Parliament , ‘ and that former precedent did not apply in this instance , in which the question at issue was one concerning not two but three Parties , and that the House of Commons was the proper place for the choice of the Electorate to be made known ’ . |
| 27 | Suger offered the vision of divinely inspired harmony , a place for the king below the saints and martyrs of the church , with his vassals the princes on the rung below , and other lesser men in their serried ranks below again , all enveloped in St Denis 's protection , fulfilling their roles on earth until they took their place in heaven . |
| 28 | The Bible , accordingly , is the safest place for the Spirit . |
| 29 | There seemed to be no place for the concept of a human soul sustained by a divine being , which exists in other religions , independently of the Christian accretion of the Man-God and suffering Saviour . |
| 30 | There was always a place for the camp characters who asked : ‘ Are you being served ? ’ and ordered ‘ Shut that door ’ , but about them there was always ambiguity . |