Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't know if it should be that important if everything we do is based on good sound scientific principles , because if people perhaps in the same industry are situated in different places in the estuary , y'know , if one was to point the finger at the other and say ‘ But you allow him to discharge such and such and you only let us do this ’ , then we should be able to turn round and say , ‘ Ah yes , but you 're discharging in a different place and the river quality in this different place needs different treatment . ’ |
| 2 | Also , the roof is leaking in several places , there are cracks appearing on the parapet , which need , even to my eyes , need to be filled . |
| 3 | This myth of a maiden rescued from a monster is found in many places , but the most distant from the Mediterranean is probably Japan . |
| 4 | On the first lap , the Italian veteran was edged into fifth place by Jean Alesi 's Ferrari and , for the next 30 minutes , he had to work hard to win the place back . |
| 5 | The child is removed to another place , usually a bedroom or into the hall , to avoid any reinforcement for the aggressive behaviour . |
| 6 | Bowden was beaten into second place by Dublin 's Eamonn Byrne after he suffered a line penalty on the seventh test . |
| 7 | His nose was broken in two places by a player he had sent off for violent play . |
| 8 | When a crystal is formed , for example by cooling of a melt , crystal grains of different lattice orientation are formed in different places ; as the whole material solidifies these meet on grain boundaries — the counterpart of the line from A to B in Fig. 22.2 . |
| 9 | His legs and back were broken in numerous places . |
| 10 | Ken said he saw the play in the way he saw all comedy ‘ like a ball being thrown from one place to another ’ . |
| 11 | The glass-framed roof of the verandah was broken in several places where branches of nearby trees had pushed against it , and the whole of the wooden frame — the elaborately-carved side pieces , the stanchions , rails and planking — was visibly rotten . |
| 12 | Esparto was grown in such places as Spain and Algeria , imported and transported from either the South Wales Railway , via Woolaston Station , or the diminutive wharf at Cone Pill . |
| 13 | The need to restrict vehicle movements and access is mentioned in many places in the document and the Core Strategy ( p.4 ) rightly seeks ‘ a reduction in the adverse impact of road traffic on the quality of the environment ’ . |
| 14 | Vagog was struggling in fourth place at the last where Lady Westown , going the best , fell and brought down Parlezvousfrancais . |
| 15 | It is important that the characteristics of division used in this process should be mutually exclusive in order to avoid cross-classification ( documents on one and the same subject being classified at different places in the scheme ) . |
| 16 | ‘ His leg 's broken in two places and he 's badly bruised , but he 'll be all right . |
| 17 | If , as a result , a particular chemical substance is concentrated at particular places , it may induce the cells in those places to differentiate in particular ways , just as the presence of galactose in the medium can induce bacterial cells to produce proteins they would not otherwise make . |
| 18 | Seating is limited to eighty places . |
| 19 | The Labour candidate was beaten into third place with only 12 per cent . |
| 20 | Mr Peter Allen , the Liberal Democrat candidate was pushed into third place with about 8,400 votes . |
| 21 | St Ives 's leg was fractured in two places . |
| 22 | When corruption was exposed in high places in the Democratic Party ( though not touching Truman personally ) the formula was complete . |
| 23 | The mutant is clothed in moist sacking only , and his skin is covered in most places with thick green scales . |
| 24 | But what better way of fooling the enemy when your Prime Minister was going to one place than by having a double suggest he was somewhere else altogether ? |
| 25 | A criticism of Bolshevism was removed , and the wording was edited in several places , to include the word " communism " , a reference to the " teaching of Marx , Engels and Lenin " , and an appeal for unified and centrally led armed forces . |
| 26 | Bent 's jaw was broken in four places , and Penney was shown the yellow card . |
| 27 | In the second his jaw was broken in two places and his nose broken . |
| 28 | After a steward 's enquiry Colour Chart was relegated to fourth place . |
| 29 | This time stroke play was used with first place going to Eddie , second to Andy White and third to Ian McCulloch . |
| 30 | My family and I originate from many countries , this is because members of my family were born in different places . |