Example sentences of "[prep] [det] a place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mud is not only the most appropriate building material for such a place because of the low rainfall , only 20 mm per year , but also to ameliorate the living conditions . |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , I know of such a place , but it is going to cost you even more . |
| 3 | The attraction of such a place was enhanced by the prize money paid in time of war to officers of the Indian Marine as to those of the Royal Navy , but the time promotion was unique to the Indian service , virtually guaranteeing advancement in rank . |
| 4 | I will not be an old girl of such a place . |
| 5 | He attached himself to the Sussex magnate Thomas Sackville , then Lord Buckhurst and later lord treasurer and first Earl of Dorset [ q.v. ] , who in 1594 recommended him to act as deputy to John Parker in a Chancery post as ‘ of honest sort and behaviour , of such good knowledge and skill for the discharge of such a place , and withall having so good means and ability to live ’ . |
| 6 | " In Christ 's name , who 's ever heard of such a place ? " |
| 7 | from such a place rather than such a place |
| 8 | It is the sort of place which will always revive and rebuild , and in such a place Salim 's part is to make good , carry on . |
| 9 | possess any secret official code word , or password , or sketch , plan , model , article , note , document or information which relates to or is used in a prohibited place or anything in such a place , or which has been made or obtained in contravention of this Act , or which has been entrusted in confidence to him by any person holding office under Her Majesty or which he has obtained or to which he has had access owing to his position as a person who is or has been employed under a person who holds or has held such an office or contract — [ and who ] ( a ) communicates the code word , pass word , sketch , plan , model , article , note , document , or information to any person other than a person to whom he is authorised to communicate it , or a person to whom it is in the interest of the State his duty to communicate it , or ( aa ) uses the information in his possession for the benefit of any foreign power or in any other manner prejudicial to the safety or interests of the State , or ( b ) retains the sketch , plan , model , article , note , or document in his possession or control when he has no right to retain it or when it is contrary to his duty to retain it , or fails to comply with all directions issued by lawful authority with regard to the return or disposal thereof , or … |
| 10 | He found that in such a place present was near to past and visible near to the invisible world . |
| 11 | Even now , many factories employ varying proportions of these two other groups alongside Asian women , but a white man would almost never work in such a place except as a supervisor . |
| 12 | One answer could be that , where the damage is caused by fire , the consequent danger to life may be similar to that created by an explosion , and the inferences may be the same : who could cause such a fire in such a place without appreciating the danger to others ? |
| 13 | Would a person like Crevecoeur be so desperate as to seek sanctuary in such a place ? |
| 14 | Yet the horse , never having discovered food in such a place before , will stop short in its tracks and say , quite clearly , ‘ I want it ! ’ |
| 15 | It looked like hundreds and hundreds of houses all piled dangerously on top of each other and Endill wondered if it was safe to live in such a place . |
| 16 | The brutish , uncaring nature of the staff was conveyed as almost an inevitable necessity brought about by the institutionalisation of working in such a place ; just as the public will accept that prison warders will overstep the line from time to time because of the people they are dealing with . |
| 17 | it was unwise to linger in such a place . |
| 18 | Not surprisingly , only families in real difficulty were prepared to see their own older generation end their lives in such a place . |
| 19 | The fate awaiting someone pitched from his horse in such a place might be blood-poisoning , ‘ being dreadfully venom 'd by rolling in slake ’ , as William Hall put it in his nineteenth-century fen doggerel . |
| 20 | When he stands alone in such a place confronted by several police officers , usually some of high rank , the dice are loaded against him , especially as he knows there is no one to corroborate him as to what exactly occurred during the interrogation , how it was conducted and how long it lasted ’ . |
| 21 | Both these works were played during the first Tilford Bach Festival after which William Mann reviewing the concert in the Times wrote ‘ such a Festival in such a place does Bach signal homage ’ . |
| 22 | ‘ any animal kept in such a place or manner as to be prejudicial to health or a nuisance ’ . |
| 23 | Now , as he grew older and more mature , especially after his hectic and sometimes horrifying war experiences , he realised how lucky he was to be born and live in such a place . |
| 24 | Elizabeth reported that she had heard in such a place : ‘ Long time , no see , old boy , what 's your poison ? ’ |
| 25 | It is almost inconceivable that such a thing could have happened at eight in the morning in such a place . |
| 26 | A pool in such a place ! |
| 27 | A dog with more breeds in its blood than hairs on its back foamed and yapped at them from the limit of its rope ; the curtains of several trailers were drawn back by shadowy witnesses ; two girls in early adolescence , both with hair so long and blonde they looked to have been baptized in gold ( unlikely beauty , in such a place ) rose from beside the fire , one running as if to alert guards , the other watching the newcomers with a smile somewhere between the seraphic and the cretinous on her face . |
| 28 | In such a place , this near the walls of the Iahmandhas in the Third Dominion , Godolphin had acquired his most sacred possession : a Boston Bowl , complete with its forty-one coloured stones . |
| 29 | The idea is that one does not really accept a universal rule unless an imaginative attempt to put oneself in the place of everyone affected still leaves one happy with it , for only so does one accept the prescription that the action should be done in that case in which it would be oneself rather than the other who was in such a place . |
| 30 | A middle-aged building worker who arrived at the palace — his first time in such a place — after his marriage had broken up , said , " I was a little bit disgusted , they do n't treat you as if you were just unemployed , they treat you like a person who has just crawled out of the gutter . " |