Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such ideas , which derive from views about the place of humanity in nature that long pre-date Darwin and the birth of modern biology , very much misunderstand evolutionary theory . |
| 2 | ‘ There have been so many plans for the place and everything seems to fall through , ’ he said . |
| 3 | A person domiciled in a part of the United Kingdom may , in another part of the United Kingdom , be sued : ( 1 ) in matters relating to a contract , in the courts for the place of performance of the obligation in question ; … ( 3 ) in matters relating to tort , delict or quasi-delict , in the courts for the place where the harmful event occurred or in the case of a threatened wrong is likely to occur ; … ( 8 ) in proceedings — ( a ) concerning a debt secured on immovable property ; or ( b ) which are brought to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property , in the courts of the part of the United Kingdom in which the property is situated . |
| 4 | A person domiciled in a part of the United Kingdom may , in another part of the United Kingdom , be sued : ( 1 ) in matters relating to a contract , in the courts for the place of performance of the obligation in question ; … ( 3 ) in matters relating to tort , delict or quasi-delict , in the courts for the place where the harmful event occurred or in the case of a threatened wrong is likely to occur ; … ( 8 ) in proceedings — ( a ) concerning a debt secured on immovable property ; or ( b ) which are brought to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property , in the courts of the part of the United Kingdom in which the property is situated . |
| 5 | A person domiciled in part of the United Kingdom may , in another part of the United Kingdom , also be sued : ( 1 ) where he is one of a number of defendants , in the courts for the place where any of them is domiciled ; … |
| 6 | In that context , the designation by article 5(1) of the Convention of the courts for the place of performance of the obligation in question expresses the concern that , because of the close links created by a contract between the parties thereto , it should be possible for all the difficulties which may arise on the occasion of the performance of a contractual obligation to be brought before the same court : that for the place of performance of the obligation . |
| 7 | Many readers of The Place of the Lion would be unable to convict the heroine of ‘ sin ’ at all . |
| 8 | Samuel Pepys , visiting his relations at Wisbech thirty-five years later , was equally unimpressed as he passed through ‘ most sad fennes , all the way observing the sad life which the people of the place — which if they were born there , they do call the Breedlings of the place — do live , sometimes rowing from one spot to another and then wadeing ’ . |
| 9 | And I really like a lot of aspects of the place . |
| 10 | 28–1 At a congregation meeting they resolved that , as under present circumstances the Spiritual and moral interests of the congregation and the large outlying population can not be adequately attended to while Bowmore remains a mere station of the church , seeing that when probationers and Deputies of the Church come their stay is but temporary and quite insufficient for the necessities of the place , that an effort be made to raise the contributions of the congregation to an amount which might warrant the Presbytery to recommend to the Assembly that Bowmore be made a regularly sanctioned charge . |
| 11 | Newspaper advertisements hailed the convenience and amenities of the place ; specifications were laid down as to the length and style of houses . |
| 12 | But this this is spilling out onto the steps of the place . |
| 13 | ‘ And in a building that stood ten or twelve paces from the place where they were beheaded , one after the other like sheep ’ , wrote a Spanish historian , ‘ was Pedrarias , watching them between the canes which formed the walls of his house … ‘ |
| 14 | She felt as if every pair of eyes in the place was turning toward her . |
| 15 | She and Alan hope that Pat 's blythe spirit will attract all her fans to the place and rekindle the old atmosphere of fun . |
| 16 | Most of them would never set eyes on the place and few felt any loyalty towards it . |
| 17 | Like if it 's a family with about forty kids by the place ! |
| 18 | We played at Caxton House Youth Club in Archway and various blues parties around the place . |
| 19 | Comparing two different accounts of the place , for instance , or an adverse traveller 's account and a hotel advertisement persuading people to stay there might lead to a discussion on interpretations in history . |
| 20 | v. Kantner ( Case 38/81 ) [ 1982 ] E.C.R. 825 the Court of Justice held that a plaintiff may invoke the jurisdiction of the courts of the place of performance of a contract in accordance with article 5(1) even where the existence of the contract on which the claim is based is in dispute between the parties . |
| 21 | An enterprising type at the gate sells photocopied plans of the place for a mark apiece . |
| 22 | Given the massive contribution made daily by dedicated staff at the DMH it seems more than a touch insensitive to expect them to dip into their own pockets for the place as well . |
| 23 | One can forgive the old dugouts retrieving their uniforms from the mothballs and flaunting medal ribbons and red tabs about the place , but the young are beginning to sprout extraordinary garments . |
| 24 | The music meant little to him , but the history , the architecture , the stones , the daily sacrament , and all the associations of the place remained with him permanently . |
| 25 | The tower at Radway was based on the medieval Guy 's tower at Warwick Castle , but it was also intended to underline the historical associations of the place : standing on the spot where King Charles I is supposed to have raised his standard before the battle of Edgehill , it was designed to house a statue of the British hero Caractacus and was decorated with emblems of the Saxon heptarchy , and its ceremonial opening took place on the anniversary of the death of Oliver Cromwell . |
| 26 | This was equally , and perhaps more , marked in local politics in the cities , dominated as these naturally were by the bourgeois ( i.e. normally Liberal ) notables of the place . |
| 27 | But when the time comes to close , this delicate balance between gleaming efficient machinery and the secret world of nature can relent the man made , now nature takes over , unfettered by schedules or the relentless hurry into the night shift , it creeps into the bare workings of the place and then it 's not the rest of the world within a world . |
| 28 | The noises of the place went on around him , muffled only slightly by the mists and vapours ; he could hear shouted instructions and curses , the clanking of ladles and giant spatulas , the hiss and splutter of frying , the sloshing of water and soups , the grating of giant pans being moved , the machine-gun chatter of chopping knives . |
| 29 | I fully endorsed the Kingman approaches to the teaching of grammar , which were not ‘ equivocations ’ , but carefully balanced descriptions of the place of English language in the curriculum . |
| 30 | on the uprights of the place . |