Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had spent much time looking for the right place and seemed to have explored almost every corner of the country , from Devon to Cumberland , and had almost settled on a disused mill at Fisherton-de-la-Mare , near Amesbury . |
| 2 | Seemed to go back and forth between the reservation and the city for a while looking for the right place to be . |
| 3 | The families are heading off for the only place where they can make a living these days : the jungle area of Chapare in Cochabamba. province . |
| 4 | The important judicial dignities in Edinburgh attracted a great deal of competitive interest , and men watched the health of the incumbents closely in order to be sure to be first to ask for the vacant place in the event of a death . |
| 5 | So you 're actually , if you 're going for a job , you want er for the highest place where you get the highest wages , which was a for any working , you 're going |
| 6 | But with makeshift striker Paul Warhurst facing a long lay-off after his horror injury , Francis must again decide between himself , Nigel Jemson and Gordon Watson for the other place . |
| 7 | ‘ Or maybe he thought your dad was bound for the other place . ’ |
| 8 | Many persons will have their own particular reasons for gratitude to him , and everyone will so warmly want to wish him well for the new place in life which awaits him back in his own native diocese of Liverpool . |
| 9 | When he cast his eyes around for the one place that seemed , for a man of business , the least affected by the tumult of war , the shrewd Samuel decided on Tangier . |
| 10 | Britain 's golden boy who lost his shine when newcomer David Grindley beat him for the final place in today 's 400 metres final is ready to take a year off from the track if it means he can beat the trouble . |
| 11 | Germany will play France tonight for the third semi-final spot to play Scotland , while the losers will play Switzerland tomorrow morning for the final place . |
| 12 | Take a walk out from Morecambe , and head north to Hest Bank for the best place to see the birds . |
| 13 | After high school in Greece , to which the family returned when Mendoros was in his teens , he looked round for the best place to pursue his obsession — which is what brought him to Perth . |
| 14 | His narrow victory at Mosport over Regazzoni put the two men equal on points with one race to go at Watkins glen , with Scheckter still in with an outside chance , and when Rega retired , Emerson settled in behind Reutemann , Pace and Hunt for the fourth place which was to give him the championship . |
| 15 | Yeah , but for the little place it is |
| 16 | FS ( 21 ) knocked in his first goal for the seniors and addressed the other contenders for the single forward role : I will have a go for the single place up front and i would like to try it vs Costa Rica . |
| 17 | As for the historical place — technically , says Balboa 's biographer , the peak was not in Darién , nor was it actually a peak . |
| 18 | Unacknowledged , it 's been that way for several years , as we have regularly tried to point out here as others wrongly gave the crown to Digital Equipment Corp , but both the Wall Street Journal and Datamation magazine have at last come round to agreeing that Fujitsu Ltd is the world 's second-largest computer company — with NEC Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co both now challenging DEC for the third place . |
| 19 | The prizes at £75 for the winner , £50 for the runner-up and £25 for the third place . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They stopped and another friend bound for the same place , who had seen the problem , pulled up and walked over to them . |
| 22 | Funny that they 'd both been heading for the same place , though . |
| 23 | ‘ Heading for the same place as yours when you see who he 's with . |
| 24 | The Flying Dutchman results were erratic , but certainly much improved , and there is now a real battle for the Olympic place between Will Henderson , Adrian Stead and Roger Tushingham . |
| 25 | The ideology underpinning this report , therefore , promotes the ideals of the family as the main source of care and the home as the appropriate place to receive such care . |
| 26 | Position not being a quality , and sensations not being in parts of the body as pins , wounds and broken bones are in parts of the body , it would seem that the only way in which a part of the body can enter into one 's experience of a pain is as the apparent place of the prick , scratch , cut , or whatever it may be , which has given rise to the sensation . |
| 27 | At Westonbirt , noted as the best place in England for autumn colour , they do not find this so . |
| 28 | Similarly , residential care has been preferred at some times more than others , so until the eighteenth century in the Netherlands and Flanders the foster family was seen as the best place for orphans , foundlings , and abandoned children and has long been extensively used to care for needy children in Scotland ( Packman , 1975 ; Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Pyck et al . , |
| 29 | Some had chosen these northern islands as the best place to make their lives , the best place to bring up their children . |
| 30 | MORE and more savers are turning to unit trusts as the best place to tuck away their money now that interest rates at banks and building societies are plunging . |