Example sentences of "[prep] place to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skirtings are generally nailed into place to timber packing pieces , called grounds , which are themselves secured to the masonry behind with large cut nails . |
| 2 | After the last captive had been secured , the cordon remained in place to bag any stragglers , waiting until their colleagues who had been doing the sweep through the woods arrived to join up with them again . |
| 3 | Farming was carried on in open fields that had not changed basically since the thirteenth century , and beyond the arable fields and their meadows lay great tracts of common pasture , much of it covered with gorse and furze , rising in places to moorland and mountains . |
| 4 | The elliptical phraseology of the law , amounting in places to ambiguity , obscures the cut-on point for gentility , if indeed there was one in vew of the presence in the musters and subsidy rolls of a not inconsiderable number of gentlemen of extremely limited means . |
| 5 | When we do this , we find that a critic 's range of activities varies from place to place and period to period . |
| 6 | As its diamond-tipped drill moves from place to place along a rock band that stretches through the Mweelrea Mountains and the Sheeffry Hills , local concern is growing . |
| 7 | The problem then needs to be formulated in scientific terms and this requires the object to have some property which is unique to its origin , but which varies from place to place and is not significantly modified by manufacture ; the property must also be scientifically detectable . |
| 8 | The history of clerical suspicion of ‘ secular ’ celebrations is still only patchily written ; it would reveal not only a remarkable — though by no means even — development over time , but a no less remarkable variation from place to place . |
| 9 | The history consisted of genealogies ( which were different in their emphases and resonances from place to place and from person to person ) and of anecdotes , poems , stories , all of which were similarly variable . |
| 10 | Within the chromosomes of a single individual , however , there are processes whereby pieces of DNA are duplicated , or moved from place to place . |
| 11 | At the scale of a single cell , molecules move from place to place by diffusion , although even at this scale larger objects like chromosomes and vacuoles are moved actively by the contraction of fibres called microtubules . |
| 12 | One of the great achievements of the Roman Empire was the construction of their roads by which means their Legions moved with comparative speed from place to place . |
| 13 | What 's more , so that you do n't have to walk too far to get from place to place , most of the nightlife is crammed into one strip no more than 400 metres long , which has bars , cafés and discos on 3 levels , just like one enormous night club with over 50 bars and dance floors . |
| 14 | ‘ It is safer for me to move around from place to place . |
| 15 | It had wheels on the bottom and a handle inside , which he turned to get him from place to place . |
| 16 | Mr Crangle was rushing from place to place checking the details of his plan . |
| 17 | As might be expected when the large area in which Gaelic was widespread is considered , plant names may differ from place to place or be recorded in variant forms , and the choice ( in most cases ) of one name only in the Flora was extremely difficult . |
| 18 | – Taken all in all , then , the land is intrinsically more intricate than the oceans ; it has more variation , from time to time and from place to place . |
| 19 | He sat and thought somberly about Kegan , keeping his chin tucked into his neck and his eyes on the toes of his outstretched feet , as people clutching clipboards bustled about , and men wearing earphones and pulling the attached wires behind them moved importantly from place to place and shouted at the invisible listeners who spoke to them through the earphones . |
| 20 | Although he referred to her in letters to Zbo as ‘ his wife ’ and was concerned and excited about the baby , Modi was very much the Italian husband , leaving his woman alone while he visited the cafés , living inside of himself for much of the time , coming home drunk and moving restlessly from place to place . |
| 21 | For one thing , they varied enormously from place to place ( e.g. the distinctions between the policies of the colonial administrations of Kenya and neighbouring Uganda , Brett 1973 ; Leys 1975 ) , and between Anglophone and Francophone Africa . |
| 22 | Henry was an exacting master , possessed of so much energy that it was popularly rumoured that he could fly , so swiftly did he travel from place to place . |
| 23 | The structure of the interview will vary from place to place . |
| 24 | According to Sheila Sisulu of the South African Council of Churches , the DET 's strategy has largely involved shifting resources from place to place rather than substantially expanding the system . |
| 25 | As well as differing from place to place , what is defined as crime changes over time . |
| 26 | ‘ In Xamdu did Cublai Can build a stately Palace , encompassing sixteene miles of plaine ground within a wall , wherein are fertile meddowes , pleasant springs , delightful streames , and all sorts of beasts of chase and game , and in the midst thereof a sumptuous house of pleasure , which may be moved from place to place . |
| 27 | Man can never completely get away from his origins with out harming himself ; he was a nomad , wandering from place to place with all his goods in tents , accompanied by his flocks of sheep and goats . |
| 28 | It also varies from place to place . |
| 29 | Anxiety is commonly intermingled with fear and takes the form of restlessness ; it is a mental anxiety and uneasiness that makes the patient toss and turn , get up and walk about , move from place to place , one position to another but they become so weak that eventually , in very serious diseases , he is prostrate even to having a deathly aspect . |
| 30 | Pains that fly around , wander from place to place . |