Example sentences of "[prep] [be] [prep] [art] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Calcutta has to be about the worst place in the World to live . |
| 2 | Even if he is murdered by a homicidal maniac he has chosen to be at a certain place at a certain time . |
| 3 | Apart from the pure nostalgia generated among those of us who know the route well , it was enlightening to hear from Russell of the practical problems and time involved in making such a film — 200+ hours and many journeys , hoping to be at the right place at the right time — and , as always , the great unknown — the weather . |
| 4 | I promised to be in a certain place by this time tomorrow , and I intend to be there . |
| 5 | Whether any other position could serve that purpose is at best arguable , but in any case all discs need to be in a standard place so that they can be checked in seconds without searching . |
| 6 | ‘ That 's our pinnacle , ’ says Chuck , ‘ To be in a small place , and just rocking it with our own tunes . ’ |
| 7 | One of the qualities which I think you alluded to earlier was the quality of imagination , to the ability of , to actually feel what it was like to be in a particular place at |
| 8 | The basic idea is that in order to study a single linguistic feature , the investigator will elicit a set word or phrase in entirely naturalistic conditions from persons who happen to be in a given place at a given time . |
| 9 | I wanted to be in a harder place , hearing the great murmur of shock and argument you hear only when people realize that life has changed forever . |
| 10 | Counsel were able to refer to three cases only in which the source of profits had been held not to be in the principal place of business of the taxpayer . |
| 11 | So , you either decide to start again , or you cut and paste , often laboriously , to move the range to where you think it ought to be in the first place . |
| 12 | But there 's lots of wildlife around , if you happen to be in the right place at the right time , and not singing a Betty Boo number at the top of your voice . |
| 13 | We expect Jesus to be in the right place at the right time , therefore his choosing of male apostles was quite deliberate , which must have theological significance and definite implications for the ministry today . |
| 14 | You have to be in the right place at the right time , you hear there 's a place going , then you grab it . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm not being modest about it , but I was lucky to be in the right place at the vital moment ’ , he says . |
| 16 | In some ways , the coaching world is like a jigsaw , in as much that when a piece of the puzzle which one felt was the perfect fit is found not to be in the right place after all , then it goes somewhere else and another piece has to be found to fill the gap . |
| 17 | Like policing , it is also a matter of flair , of the ability to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 18 | Field men know that pollution does not crop up at random and one of the arts of enforcement is to be in the right place at the right time — or at least to know where to look , for a particular problem in this form of enforcement is to forge a link between act or event and offender . |
| 19 | I 'm not proud , it 's just that I want to be in the right place . |
| 20 | So the criminals move freely around the galaxy , pursing their profession , and the FedPol must swallow its frustration and hope one day to be in the right place at the right time to catch a big-time wrong-doer in the act . |
| 21 | ‘ I guess I threw myself at you because of everything that had happened between Jonathan and myself ; I guess I was just looking for a diversion and you happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 22 | They just happened to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 23 | I know because many years ago I happened to be in the right place , in the ambulance I was driving at the right time and was able to e effect a rescue of an old woman from her smoke filled house at Burstill Ten minutes later I could not have done it because of the smoke . |
| 24 | Yeah although the tape 's on I 'll still say I 'll still say I mean there are people within the company as within any company I 'm sure who you when you get to know their technical ability or lack thereof you think well how have they managed to get where they have but they just seem to be able they seem to have this ability to be able to be in the right place at the right time . |
| 25 | ‘ I just happened to be in the right place at the right time . ’ |
| 26 | He is , of course , the corporation 's watcher of science ( along with medicine , aerospace , and aviation , not to mention street sieges when he happens to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ) for radio 's news department . |
| 27 | Sometimes this may be unfortunate pupils who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time ; but often it is the teachers ' families who begin to bear the brunt , and whose reserves of tolerance and goodwill may also , after a while , begin to dry up in turn . |
| 28 | He just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time . ’ |
| 29 | In classical physics , if I measured each electron 's position as it was delivered they would all be found to be in the same place . |
| 30 | Most such acute psychiatric wards are now sited in district general hospitals ; and even though it is not essential for in-patient facilities of this type to be in the same place as other medical specialties , it is often helpful for elderly people , in particular , to be treated where specialist medical advice on physical illness and disability is readily available . |