Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] in [art] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overflow itself should discharge in an obvious place where it can not be ignored . |
| 2 | Following a request from an Age Concern organisation , we will also be producing short guidelines on why older people should vote in the first place . |
| 3 | The licence-holder of premises to which the section applies must exhibit in a conspicuous place a notice stating that the section applies and the effect of its application ( subs . |
| 4 | The onus of making that interpersonal connection between their differing maps of the mind must rest in the first place with the staff , not with the student . |
| 5 | Consequently , the court can not use what used to be called injunctions , either mandatory or prohibitory , to achieve that the child should live in a particular place . |
| 6 | You do n't want to get caught , you 'll work in a secluded place , you 'll go for a place that 's got hedges around it and where you ca n't see the door . |
| 7 | They 're not really so complicated as perhaps they might look in the first place . |
| 8 | Hence there is a problem of how cooperation could evolve in the first place , although it would be stable once it had evolved . |
| 9 | The difficulty , of course , lies in imagining how such a complex behavioural syndrome , which is stable only when complete , could arise in the first place . |
| 10 | Despite the difficulty of imagining how a behaviour involving the three components outlined in the last paragraph could arise in the first place , I think it is quite possible that the explanation of stable age queues in animals may be of this kind . |
| 11 | It is ac I could sit in a different place . |
| 12 | You would n't think lightning could strike in the same place twice would you ? |
| 13 | Aye , well I mean the social activities you used to have in the old place , were th were those any better than over here ? |
| 14 | Then the strategy ‘ cooperate with your neighbour if he cooperates ; otherwise defect ’ would be an ESS , although I have some difficulty in seeing how it would evolve in the first place . |
| 15 | Yeah , I would have in the first place , but it was just impossible ! |
| 16 | Not only does the hearer assume it is the same ‘ man ’ who is being talked about throughout , he also assumes that the man will stay in the same place unless the speaker announces that he moves . |
| 17 | As a junior nurse new to the surgical ward you are in a good position to understand how uncomfortable a person can feel in a strange place with unfamiliar people . |