Example sentences of "place [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , if it 's a terrifically hot day and you do n't feel like burning out a gasket on the tops , Malham is just the place for an easy stroll , going " just steady on " , as they say in the Dales . |
| 2 | This was not the first purge it had masterminded ( though it would be the first of this scale ) ; the structure was in place for an invisible but comprehensive cleansing . |
| 3 | This was no place for an aspiring poet . |
| 4 | A general textbook on the law of tort is no place for an extended discussion of the specialised law relating to trade disputes but those disputes have provided most of the ‘ raw material ’ for the development of the common law and their legal regulation has been so substantially modified by statute since 1906 that some account of the legislative intervention is necessary . |
| 5 | WordPerfect Corp , Orem , Utah says that things are now in place for an initial public offering sometime in the future , but it is not prepared to give any indication of when the long-awaited event might happen . |
| 6 | This is not the place for an exhaustive description of the model . |
| 7 | The 1992 UN conference on the environment could be the right place for an analytical look at what the world needs to do to ensure that it can feed its vulnerable populations in the next country . |
| 8 | ‘ We should emphasise that we do have opinions on what is happening , but in my place as an official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs I can not go into comments without having all-inclusive information and orders in that regard . ’ |
| 9 | This is not simply a matter of economic growth , although that has become increasingly important and perhaps dominant , but of a more general development of a distinctive culture and way of life which would allow the society to take its ‘ rightful ’ place as an autonomous , self-determining unit among the other nations of the world . |
| 10 | Now that the US , the IMF 's largest shareholder , has agreed a quota increase the main dispute is a wrangle over rankings in the IMF hierachy with the Japanese demanding their place as an economic superpower be fully recognised . |
| 11 | I thought of the place as an imaginary island , a sort of French Never Never Land . |
| 12 | However , although the effects on market share in the short term were certainly negligible , it is possible to argue , from a dynamic perspective , that the removal of Rowntree from the market place as an independent supplier eliminated a potentially powerful long-term competitor in world markets for the Swiss firms . |
| 13 | So , in the classroom , as in the family and the peer group , socialisation largely takes place as an unintended consequence of the interaction of its members . |
| 14 | While machines could do the work of muscle , ‘ the labourer is needed to guide the machines , and to take his place as an intelligent factor in the complex system of modern industry ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ My dear Tom spoke of the place as an undeveloped shambles with Matt living there alone , although I 've now heard that he and Silas accommodate a few guests . |
| 16 | If you want to fit a fluorescent light , recessed light(s) , ceiling light , or track lighting in place of an existing pendant light , you will normally want to remove the ceiling rose . |
| 17 | Fit it in place of an existing thinner jacket , and over any shrunk-on rigid foam insulation your cylinder may have . |
| 18 | In place of an external adviser drawn from the careers service , the primary school draws on the build-up of a pupil 's capacities and potential as assessed by teachers in the traditional way and by the national system of assessment at two stages . |
| 19 | Scientific truth then is relegated to the place of an unintended consequence of the instrumental ( and not substantive ) rationality of agents in the economy of scientific practice . |
| 20 | In place of an unbridled power struggle in which almost anything was permissible and extreme instability in relations between states was the norm , it was now being asserted that the task of diplomacy was not to deceive or even perhaps to defeat an opponent , but rather to reconcile conflicting ambitions and help different states to coexist , at least for considerable periods , in a reasonable degree of amity . |
| 21 | While she hovered on the threshold , patting her wispy hair into place with an agitated hand and looking distractedly at her reflection in ‘ The Light of the World ’ , a breathless child hurried into the lobby , calling her name . |
| 22 | Lord Carrington had entered the House thirteen years earlier and recalls a relaxed , convivial place with an overwhelming political bias : |
| 23 | Standing by her place with an endearing air of domestic pride , she explained that her husband was away with the other men , spreading the meat strips on the higher thorn bushes to dry in safety . |
| 24 | The only place with an inalterable role was Scone . |
| 25 | I had finally been forced to apply a large pad of cotton wool held in place with an enormous length of three-inch bandage . |
| 26 | The Golden Hind was smaller and a lot more cheerful than the Lord Howe , a busy little place with an obvious hard core of regulars wedged into their favourite corners . |
| 27 | Using a type one slot means that PCMCIA devices — such as modem cards — can not be used , instead all communications will take place via an inbuilt RS-232 socket . |
| 28 | It was probably set up around 1150 and given this huge market place along an existing road running north to south But the main through road from Oxford to Aylesbury ran from east to west a little to the north of the new town . |
| 29 | Useful investigation can take place in an individualised environment ( as many Open University students know ) ; however , it is often best to approach it as a co-operative endeavour . |
| 30 | For these discussions to take place in an effective manner accurate forecasts are needed over the medium term . |