Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [prep] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Falati had been employed as a housekeeper at the Mandela 's old home in Soweto , the house which featured in the trial as the place to which the youths were taken . |
| 2 | Ten minutes at the most to get the measure of the place , to get some idea of its layout and how it all ran , and to use the information to work out her next move in the game . |
| 3 | Although the income generated by tea-rooms , shops and plant centres is of great importance to the Trust , it is vital that their presence should not be allowed to interfere with ‘ the genius of the place ’ . |
| 4 | But he was so moved by the film that he launched a campaign to raise the money at the place where he worked . |
| 5 | Then France was mentioned , and he said something ordinary , like you can always tell you 're there from the smell of the place , how you could tell even if you were blindfold . |
| 6 | Yes , the smell of the place , even to my clotted nostrils , has definitely improved . |
| 7 | The smell of the place reminded me of a kipper factory . |
| 8 | Feminists have accused political sociologists of substituting their own views of what should be the case in the place of evidence . |
| 9 | In order to effectuate delivery , the carrier notifies the holder of the place and date of intended delivery . |
| 10 | Les clearly liked the look of the place , took an immediate shine to the audience and launched himself into a neatly structured tirade on what makes tradition tick . |
| 11 | Now she would know where Benny went and studied ; she would know the look of the place . |
| 12 | The weather was delicious ; she liked the look of the place , the last weeks had been hectic . |
| 13 | Much more of this and some nosey neighbour was bound to call local Plod , though from the look of the place Camberwick Green probably had tougher policing . |
| 14 | ‘ These include a fishing boat haven at the lough , woodland walks and the general sprucing up of the look of the place , such as taking away all overhead electricity wires and putting them underground and getting a new street lighting system . |
| 15 | I suppose it 's the look of the place is it ? |
| 16 | Even the most brain damaged to the revellers sensed it , and the noise of the place began to die away . |
| 17 | Not that I do n't deserve a view when you consider the rent of the place . |
| 18 | More important , however , is the central fact that in the elevation of the place of the gens in their system , they consummated the fatal union between what we have called their rhetorical and their historical use of anthropology . |
| 19 | So they opened up the roof over the place where Jesus was , and when they had broken through they lowered the stretcher on which the paralysed man was lying . |
| 20 | Left unremarked in the discussion so far is the irony of the place of criminal punishment in a system which emphasizes conciliatory control based upon compliance . |
| 21 | I wondered whether the fact that the buildings had collapsed , were no longer the ordered haven of childhood , helped him to understand that whatever he might do to reinstate the fabric of the place , he would not succeed in re-creating the past . |
| 22 | I do n't try to reproduce the place , but the light of the place . |
| 23 | Delisting would do Jardine Matheson no good in Hong Kong ( though it would certainly do less harm if it were attributed to a row with the regulators than , say , to lack of faith in the future of the place ) . |
| 24 | Helen , neutrally listening , anaesthetised by her state of uplift , thought that they nicely illustrated the condition of the place . |
| 25 | As it was , they were all staring fixedly at the entrance to the place , so I had already been inspected by them . |
| 26 | We ran through the dark towards the place where the cries had come from . |
| 27 | She knew the geography of the place ; she might easily have followed Newley down to Miller 's End . |
| 28 | Theodora tried to remember what she knew of the geography of the place . |
| 29 | And the pong of the place , the carriage : Pol and Rab across from her , sound asleep ; and Paddy , his head , snoring on her lap . |
| 30 | Then the luxury of the place reached out and embraced her . |