Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in all other respects Tonga is more rightfully regarded as the closest place and has an International Date Line Hotel in the main town , Nuku'alofa , to prove it . |
| 2 | ‘ Did they know of the deep place in the pond ? |
| 3 | This non-drying adhesive stays very sticky for months and can be squeezed out onto a strip of tape around benches , staging , individual pots , or even across doorways to prevent them walking in the first place . |
| 4 | It was an appalling mistake for the city to be attacked in the first place . |
| 5 | ‘ I was always proud to play for my country and I 'm baffled why I should have been omitted in the first place , for the linesman incident was trivial . |
| 6 | the subject areas omitted in the first place ; |
| 7 | Endill watched Tock make a hole in the wall , holding his hammer with both hands to stop it banging in the wrong place . |
| 8 | Many techniques for stress reduction can be appropriated by the same injunctions to succeed that got you stressed in the first place , and should be discontinued if you spot that they have been subverted in this way ( unless your goal has also changed along the way from stress reduction to record-breaking ) . |
| 9 | The catastrophic and arbitrary loss of love that you had not earned in the first place . |
| 10 | To prevent the reactions from occurring in the first place , filtered blood has to be used from the very first transfusion and 99% of white cells have to be removed . |
| 11 | Make his life as easy as possible when he first starts school to avoid the problem occurring in the first place . |
| 12 | The trick is to prevent violence occurring in the first place . |
| 13 | It does not immediately cure all known cancers — something that no one with a modicum of medical knowledge would have expected in the first place given the different causes and the versatility of cancer — nor is it without undesirable side effects . |
| 14 | The man who inspired many of the staff to come in the first place was Seymour Papert . |
| 15 | So I think if you 've got the creativity to write in the first place , you just need to change , not so much the instrument , but maybe change the tuning or the pitch . |
| 16 | The battery compartment is located in the same place , so you wo n't have to shred your hand through the soundhole to effect a changeover . |
| 17 | You will now want to make sure that your feet are landing in the right place . |
| 18 | Three methods were being tried : A benign substance called Hot Foot Gel painted on the top of transformers and similar equipment to produce a ‘ sinking ’ feeling for the Hoodies when they try to land ; Plastic strips with irregular plastic spikes fixed to the top of equipment to discourage the birds from landing in the first place ; Non-working poles incorporating ‘ alternative nesting pans ’ were erected at selected sites to encourage the crows to use them instead . |
| 19 | But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place . |
| 20 | I need to explain why this was happening in the first place . |
| 21 | It argued that public-sector resources were substantial , ‘ but efforts need to be pulled together more effectively , and brought to bear in the same place at the same time ’ ( ibid . |
| 22 | If one player stands in the wrong place , it will change the value of the team number . |
| 23 | Though they 've slipped up lately , there is still hope that the Premier League will end up in the hands of the sort of club that the likes of Arsenal , Everton and Manchester United were trying to exclude in the first place . |
| 24 | On the one hand , such action would simply rekindle the international outcry that resulted in the postponement of the ‘ harvest ’ or cull in the first place . |
| 25 | Similarly teams of medical advisers were brought down to William Osborne to inspect and comment on the level and location of medical equipment so that as the boat was built the right equipment was installed in the right place . |
| 26 | It had been included in the first place On the insistence of the republicans , who refused to march without it . |
| 27 | If added water constitutes more than 5% of total product weight , that , too , must be included in the appropriate place in the list of ingredients . |
| 28 | Indeed why did it flourish in the first place ? |
| 29 | They may be of course , but we may not have looked in the right place yet to find that . |
| 30 | And when you the schools , the shops in that area , I 'm not only surprised it was n't considered in the first place , but secondly , it is the key to the whole scheme and er although I 'm quite happy to move the erm recommendation , I must say that I have a very very deep concern regarding Road . |