Example sentences of "place on a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are in this position , or even if you are lucky enough to have obtained a place on a re-entry course , it may help to make a tentative assessment of the skills you feel need to be reassessed in order to practise safely . |
| 2 | When applying for a place on a re-entry course keep the following questions in mind so that you can compare what is on offer to your own best advantage . |
| 3 | If , as a returner , you prefer to remain as a second level nurse , there should be no problem in obtaining a place on a re-entry programme . |
| 4 | Violence in the Transvaal townships in August and September reached its worst point on Sept. 12-13 , when 50 died in riots in Thokoza township and an indiscriminate massacre of commuters took place on a Johannesburg-Soweto train . |
| 5 | In an address to the country on Nov. 10 , President José Eduardo Dos Santos announced that a general election would take place on a date provisionally set for the second half of September 1992 and that consultations would continue with political parties and organizations on a firm date . |
| 6 | There is great public concern about design and quality , especially when development takes place on a greenfield site . |
| 7 | Enquire at Keeper 's House near Lettermore if concerned , but note no shooting generally takes place on a Sunday . |
| 8 | Alan Kane turned down an opportunity to explain the Save Ulster From Sodomy campaign on television because the studio discussion would take place on a Sunday . |
| 9 | The exercise is taking place on a purpose built village on the Central Ammunitions Depot at Kineton . |
| 10 | For a long time the hardware available for handwriting recognition was such that the input would take place on a graphics tablet , while the visual feedback appeared on a monitor screen . |
| 11 | For many Tory appointees , getting a place on a quango is like being given a gong that pays ’ — Labour MP Jack Straw . |
| 12 | For an old-age pensioner , a warm place on a winter 's afternoon . |
| 13 | With Niki well back and holding an honourable third place on a circuit unsuited to the Ferraris , only three points separated champion and aspirant as the FI family headed for Japan . |
| 14 | With a first prize of £250 plus a free place on a weekend writers ' course and a second prize of £150 , plus free place , the competition is open to all . |
| 15 | It is not difficult to obtain a place on a committee . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ That our MPs should soil the party 's soul for a place on a committee which is a unionist invention to be used against independence , is staggering . |
| 17 | Sometimes it was the children who forced the pace , pleading in all innocence to join their brothers , sisters , or friends who had somehow won this great distinction of a place on a Kindertransport . |
| 18 | Look straight ahead as if gazing at a place on a wall . |
| 19 | The result is that once those who are unable to purchase have negotiated their way through the labyrinthine and highly variable eligibility rules to achieve a place on a council housing waiting list , they join a queue which is growing at a faster rate than addition to the council housing stock and which in some cases even exceeds the total number of families housed by the district council . |
| 20 | It was ironic that the union should be taking place on a day when Christian Democrats had tabled a Strasbourg motion condemning Mr Major 's refusal to sign the Social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 21 | If you should decide to accept a place on a course , do not rush out to buy textbooks until you have finished reading this book , and guidance on returning to learning in particular . |
| 22 | Many of the commandos , though , died out on the river : Regimental Sergeant-Major A. Moss leading the tiny reserve of 2 Commando 's assault troops was killed swimming in the river after giving his place on a life-raft to a young soldier ; many were burnt in the pools of flaming petrol . |
| 23 | It is plain that the notions of a superior and a supreme criterion merely refer to a relative place on a scale and do not import any notion of legally unlimited legislative power . |
| 24 | if you want to say put the name of an accent down You wanted to put say Birmingham and then say , How would you rate people who have a strong accent from this place on a scale of one to five for friendless , honesty the things which you could |
| 25 | A respondent from a large practice took the pragmatic view that it was only a matter of time before a computer fraud took place on a scale which made the current level of claims pale into insignificance , making the introduction of a cap imperative . |
| 26 | Forbes managed to get a place on a voyage in the eastern Mediterranean , where HMS Beacon was engaged in a survey . |
| 27 | She could have saved her breath , for , clearly not interested in her protest that there was no need , he intimated a place on a column by the door where she should put up her foot — and stood by , waiting none too patiently . |
| 28 | To create an interesting decorative effect with mirrors , you may like to consider mirror mosaic , which consists of small squares of mirror held in place on a fabric backing . |
| 29 | This takes place on a planet 's surface using solid 3D graphics . |
| 30 | This can double as the machine teachers use to preview materials and to find a place on a tape before a lesson . |