Example sentences of "place a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everywhere , transistors give off the Reggae beat , making the place a party that never stops , and that might catch fire . |
| 2 | In 1988 Courage 's Head of Design disdainfully referred to such ramshackle , unplanned buildings as ‘ an abundance of licensed living rooms ’ ; many of his contemporaries have enthusiastically destroyed the internal room plan of such cosy and comfortable buildings in order to install in its place a series of short flights between ascending levels — an increasingly common solution originally devised by pub designer Roy Wilson-Smith in the 1970s . |
| 3 | ‘ Nonsense , ’ Veronica replied , ‘ we can give the place a good airing before we go . ’ |
| 4 | MR JUSTICE HUTCHISON said that the applicant was in effect asking the court to declare unlawful the FPC 's use of paragraph 19 provisions in order to put in place a policy for limiting the use of deputising services , save where the power to limit was used for the purpose of keeping the deputising services going properly . |
| 5 | He also put in place a long-term programme of staff development . |
| 6 | I took up my place a short distance in front of the Officer in Command of the parade . |
| 7 | There , I crossed the ancient Monnow Bridge and rode up the broad main street to Agincourt Square , where colourful umbrellas set before the inns give the place a continental air . |
| 8 | Working together , we must design and gradually put into place a new architecture for a new era . |
| 9 | This was first proposed in 1974 but when the Environmental Protection Bill becomes law , the UK will be the first European country to put in place a national system of integrated control The importance of IPC is that it aims to treat the environment as it is : an inter-related system where pollutants can be exchanged between air , water and land . |
| 10 | It 's time to haul away from the centre of pop , the humanist body ( Terence Trent , U2 , Simply Red ) and leave in its place a ghostly un-body ( Public Enemy , Throwing Muses , A.R . |
| 11 | I could n't help but imagine the scene of panic and desperation that must have taken place a few hours earlier - the young dolphin fighting and dying in a few frantic spasms , its grieving mother well able to defend her child from sharks but helpless against a silent , resisting wall of nylon . ’ |
| 12 | Three months after becoming prime minister , he is already putting in place a vast programme to privatise the state-owned businesses that have been a drag on the country since they were nationalised by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in the early 1970s . |
| 13 | You really ought to give the place a going-over with the Hoover once in a while . ’ |
| 14 | Miss Hawarth likewise procured several paying guests , moving Wilson to declare she could not imagine why any lady would wish to lodge in her poorly decorated and furnished house when they might find themselves a place a good deal more attractive and comfortable . |
| 15 | As you can see , we have specially adapted the sitting-room to accommodate our experts ; I have removed my old mac from the back of the armchair to give the place a more ‘ streamlined ’ look . |
| 16 | BNF has even opened a £5 million multimedia exhibition centre to try to make the place a tourist attraction . |
| 17 | At another place a wife is bidding good-bye to a husband whom duty calls hence . |
| 18 | She 's got our number all right an' we 'll 'ave to give this place a miss for a long time after this . |
| 19 | Unfortunately , their conception of American culture woefully behind the times and Cameron Smith , a KGB man with a more up-to-date approach , convinces his superiors to allow him to give the place a more modern look by duping a couple of real American experts to act as advisors . |
| 20 | In their place a gang of county council officials in yellow plastic jackets comes once a year to do God knows what , a little genteel scraping , and disappears off the face of the highway for another twelvemonth at least . |
| 21 | To the east of the Elbe the western demand for grain and timber had helped create and then kept in place a series of societies based upon the feudal manorial order of lords and serfs . |
| 22 | The place a hive of industry . |
| 23 | Giving a place a special label , and , in some cases , fencing it off , may raise people 's awareness , but offers only a flimsy barrier against developers . |
| 24 | In addition , the murder took place a good two hours after the window was closed . ’ |
| 25 | Motivating very loving owners to adopt a ‘ nothing in life is free ’ policy can be tough , but a good way is to each place a money box on the mantelpiece . |
| 26 | Somewhere between the first drink on Christmas Eve ( at around 5pm ) and the first cup of tea on Christmas morning ( at around 5am ) , the fear evaporates , leaving in its place a wonderful feeling of contentment . |
| 27 | We 've now put in place a performance measurement system that sets out what the job is that people are there to do , what they 're accountable for , what we expect them to achieve and what they are measured on . |
| 28 | They should discuss the best way of monitoring loan arrangements within the company so as to put in place a control system to avoid these problems . |
| 29 | Handover of the building only took place a couple of days earlier so many hands had made it possible for Mass to be celebrated in a beautiful setting . |
| 30 | The first three Gospels each place a heavy emphasis on the ‘ Kingdom ’ . |