Example sentences of "[prep] the [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 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Or maybe he thought your dad was bound for the other place . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Yeah , but for the little place it is |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | As for the historical place — technically , says Balboa 's biographer , the peak was not in Darién , nor was it actually a peak . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Javier Clemente , Spain 's new manager , says : ‘ Everybody knows how I admire English football and how I wanted Wembley as the perfect place for my debut match . ’ |
| 18 | Griffiths ' plans thus once again brought local government firmly to centre stage as the proper place for initiatives for the local population . |
| 19 | And er you even find them in some of the mills er in Galashiels and in er as the taking place of steam . |
| 20 | The important thing was to ensure that nobody tried to change the border between the new place and Greece . |
| 21 | There is confusion too about the future place of the Certificate of Pre-vocational Education . |
| 22 | Information about the actual place is sparse , but an Orangutan Foundation representative told BBC WILDLIFE that there are no facilities and no expertise there to care for the orangs , and that the surrounding primary forest has been destroyed by fire and so is unsuitable as a release area . |
| 23 | ‘ There are three tall trees , ’ he said , ‘ in about the right place . |
| 24 | About the only place you could see them was on the scrap heap . |
| 25 | He was on the point of taking his own life because he was depressed over his ill health and at the , in the church one can find spiritual food and physical food together , and in our country that 's about the only place where you can find those two together . |
| 26 | He 'd met her at work , which was about the only place where he did meet people these days . |
| 27 | About the only place is the lavatory and in the lavatory you cry alone . |
| 28 | Both approaches are necessary and , in fact , complementary , yet there may be misapprehension about the appropriate place of each , leading occasionally to unnecessary conflict even within an organisation . |
| 29 | I know that such experiences are often said to be the result of the individuals concerned having read a book or article or seen a film or television programme about the particular place and then having forgotten that they have done so . |
| 30 | Acute hardship persisted until widows ' pensions — granted in 1925 — ameliorated the problem , but even then ambivalent feelings on the part of the authorities about the proper place of the able-bodied widow persisted . |