Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour , for example , wants next year to throw £20 million at a ‘ reading recovery scheme ’ for which there would be absolutely no need had reading been properly taught in the first place ( something which requires little in the way of ‘ resources ’ ) . |
| 2 | Little knock on the right place … ’ |
| 3 | If you can scrape together a few hits and make enough to retire to a little place in the suburbs , you 've made the most of the opportunity . |
| 4 | But in all other respects Tonga is more rightfully regarded as the closest place and has an International Date Line Hotel in the main town , Nuku'alofa , to prove it . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's just not true , ’ she protested , ‘ his innocence did n't prevent him from being wrongly accused in the first place , did it ? ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Jeff was obviously calling from a public place . |
| 8 | Here , he is allowing the Bible a degree of jurisdiction over scientific statements , which , though merely affirmed in the first place , might after all turn out to be demonstrable . |
| 9 | ‘ We come to what we more or less knew in the first place . |
| 10 | THE TROUBLE with all this ‘ comeback ’ and ‘ reunion ’ malarkey is it can often destroy a band 's reputation or , worse still , make you realise they were n't much cop in the first place . |
| 11 | How , I wondered , had the woodlands become so neglected in the first place ? |
| 12 | Accessibility is not so important with the small , closed conferences because the participants are usually either highly motivated in the first place ( because of specialist interest or commitment ) or their employers require them to go or at least agree that they should . |
| 13 | Devitrification is almost universal in ancient glasses which were usually badly made in the first place and have had plenty of time to crystallize ; the result , however is , often very beautiful , though these old glasses have become very weak . |
| 14 | Not that she could n't handle him , but it was so much better if the situation did not arise in the first place . |
| 15 | Payment has never been demanded and it is possible that the provisions are not necessary because the liabilities they cover did not exist in the first place . |
| 16 | As with externalities , we can not expect markets to allocate resources efficiently if the markets do not exist in the first place . |
| 17 | The meaning of middle-class friendship is not given by the original place of meeting but by the individuality of the people concerned who can now interact in any situation . |
| 18 | The problem is that writing was not developed in the first place to preserve the meanings of talk or conversation . |
| 19 | It is not limited to a particular place . |
| 20 | The catastrophic and arbitrary loss of love that you had not earned in the first place . |
| 21 | Pot marigolds , as they are often known , are easily grown in a sunny place and light soil , being grown from seed sown outdoors in spring . |
| 22 | Whether you are starting to decorate a first home , have just moved into a new place or are redecorating an existing room , the problem is often much the same : not so much how to arrange things as how to fill up big blank walls and table or shelf surfaces when you do n't seem to have very much to use and certainly very little to spend . |
| 23 | However , X does not appear in the first place as a response to some specific stimulus ( as in the case of a reflex ) , but more or less spontaneously . |
| 24 | Simple denial is when the problem is not seen in the first place , regardless of responsibility or resources . |
| 25 | It goes without saying — so we 'll say it — that STDs are best avoided in the first place by routine sexual hygiene and precautions . |
| 26 | When Samuel arrived in England in 1939 , after a hazardous journey of two months , the country did not look like a safe place in which to live . |
| 27 | The instruments already used for the special place exam were the easiest to adopt , and existing eleven-to-fourteen-year-olds took the exam for reallocation . |
| 28 | Inevitably , forecasters err on the side of optimism because it is always possible to keep whisky which remains unsold , but impossible to sell stock which was not produced in the first place . |
| 29 | The former suggests a long-standing enduring personality trait or outlook — whether the world is generally viewed as a frightening place and whether the client is prone to anxiety state . |
| 30 | he 's in there every morning before eight o'clock and he do n't leave there much before half past six , sometimes seven o'clock , and then the workers goes in on Saturdays and if he knows there 's nothing to do just walk around a crowded place and |