Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ At my former company [ French Gold Abbott ] we were inexperienced and no one viewed FGA as the last place they were going to work . |
| 4 | The aim is to provide a link between the various places where Scotland 's future is discussed . |
| 5 | Such laboratories were not meant to be public places , and the requirements of furnaces and sand-baths and enormous wet-batteries all pointed to the basement as the best place , although without good artificial light the hours of usefulness of basement laboratories was limited . |
| 6 | Hove was elegant , Brighton racy , and Kemp Town struggling , but there was something louche about the whole place . |
| 7 | They gave support to the Beacon and Elfreda Rathbone nurseries and most members saw these settings as the best places to ‘ treat ’ children . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Appreciation of the vital place which the Church had in Medieval life is necessary to an understanding of the buildings which we have inherited from this time . |
| 10 | The property had been part of the countess ' lands , and when Risley asked the king 's advice on the matter Edward warned him off : ‘ Risley , meddle not ye with the buying of the said place , for though the title of [ it ] be good in my brother of Gloucester 's hands or in another man 's hands of like might , it will be dangerous to thee to buy it and also to keep it and defend it . ’ |
| 11 | The property had been part of the countess ' lands , and when Risley asked the king 's advice on the matter Edward warned him off : ‘ Risley , meddle not ye with the buying of the said place , for though the title of [ it ] be good in my brother of Gloucester 's hands or in another man 's hands of like might , it will be dangerous to thee to buy it and also to keep it and defend it . ’ |
| 12 | As a result of the central place of class in Marxist theory , as soon as Marxists argue that primitive societies are without class they are left with very little to say about these societies which is in any way distinctive . |
| 13 | The state and private education : a study of the Assisted Places Policy |
| 14 | ‘ Well , I will adventure , ’ said the little tailor , ‘ though I have great fear of the dark places under the earth , where there is no light of day and what is above is dense and heavy . ’ |
| 15 | I share a birthplace with my hon. Friend , and I also share his concern about the future of the assisted places scheme . |
| 16 | The head of Britain 's oldest school will meet education secretary Kenneth Clarke and his Labour shadow Jack Straw next week to discuss the future of the assisted places scheme . |
| 17 | In theory , the scheme is meant to help pupils who would otherwise be unable to do so to benefit from education at an independent school , but Janet Finch argues that past experience of the direct grant system ‘ would lead one to suppose that many beneficiaries of such a scheme will be middle-class children ’ .24 In 1986–7 about 24,500 pupils attended independent schools under the Assisted Places Scheme in England alone , and this transferred £43 million of taxpayers ' money to independent schools . |
| 18 | The most obvious way of obtaining these two facilities would be to keyboard the Supplement entries into the correct places as the OED text was being keyboarded . |
| 19 | He said the Government was funding the association in the first place to the tune of £3.76m this year . |
| 20 | The correct dosage for your fish can only be supplied if you know the gallonage of your pond in the first place . |
| 21 | The week Donald White was shot , New York saw eight similar deaths : black students , good kids in the right place at the wrong moment . |
| 22 | Why did saving collapse in the first place ? |
| 23 | He could serve up waves in the right place at the right time — or not . |
| 24 | They were little eyes in the first place . |
| 25 | Everyone , it seemed , was doing well out of the erosion of the 1878 settlement except the Russians , for whom that settlement had been a defeat in the first place . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't agree with play-offs in the first place . |
| 27 | Not only does such an arrangement disrupt the child 's schooling — although arguably it has already been badly disrupted by the child 's absenteeism — but it can often also be a traumatic experience for the child , entrenching the resentment and disaffection which were among the major causes of the child 's truancy in the first place . |
| 28 | These feelings — homesickness for a place you could n't wait to leave ( Manchester ) , nostalgia for a time that was never any good in the first place ( adolescence ) — were why the music of the Smiths refracted the quandaries of the eighties like no other . |
| 29 | Venables added : ‘ It is unfair that the stigma of being a cheat was attached to Gordon and to our club in the first place , especially when you consider some of the play-acting that goes on abroad . ’ |
| 30 | Mountbatten , as Chief of Defence Staff , welcomed the idea , if he did not actually sow it in the Prime Minister 's mind in the first place . |