Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [prep] the place " in BNC.

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1 Room 4.17 has been nominated as the place for the delivery of nominations and withdrawals .
2 I do n't know any of these fellow who are tearing around the place but the odds are first of all that they are unemployed , secondly that they feel that nobody really cares about them , thirdly that the only way to get any sort of excitement out of life is to charge around the way they do .
3 Bags of coloured wools are pegged on to scaffolding near the machine and sample lengths of fabric and felted scarves are swagged about the place .
4 ‘ You are going to the place where their bodies were found ? ’
5 Besides , you know how I 'm regarded in the place . ’
6 Or rather , Francis is actually going to play soldiers , I 'm sneaking around the place to see what I can see and maybe take a few incriminating photos with my trusty Box Brownie . ’
7 The Palestinians are blamed , plus any Iraqi soldiers who may still be lurking around the place .
8 Next Tuesday it 's the turn of drama and literature , and I shall be looking at the place of Britain in Europe with the help of Gabriel Droskapovchy .
9 Within a few hours Denwood was stripped of everything , there was not a soul or a vestige of its recent occupation to be seen in the place .
10 The issue then is whether it can be re-created in the place to which it has moved .
11 He is generally believed to be commemorated in the place name Caradon , which formerly applied only to the hill around which he held sway but now covers a complete District of South East Cornwall .
12 ‘ And they all said , Hereinafter and for evermore let this place be known as the place where the milk was spilt , ’ said Betty dreamily .
13 Implicitly in this analysis Freud suggests that the group , that is , the primal horde situation , is attractive to people because the tension with the ego ideal is lost when the leader can be put in the place of the ego ideal .
14 oranges , is gon na be issued in the place we say that that er , er at two o'clock if it 's wet we 'll be in the
15 Sunset and sunrise are to be taken at the place where the alleged offences were committed .
16 ( 9 ) The partnership books are to be kept at the place of business of the partnership ( or the principal place , if there is more than one ) , and every partner may , when he thinks fit , have access to and inspect and copy any of them .
17 In Union Transport Plc. v. Continental Lines S.A. [ 1992 ] 1 W.L.R. 15 the House of Lords held that under article 5(1) of the Brussels Convention the court 's jurisdiction was to be determined by the place of performance of the principal obligation in the contract , applying the Court of Justice decision in Ets . A. de Bloos S.P.R.L. v. Société en commandite par actions Bouyer ( Case 14/76 ) [ 1976 ] E.C.R. 1497 described in the speech of Lord Goff of Chieveley [ 1992 ] 1 W.L.R. 15 , 19 :
18 I had not realized just how cold my house might seem , she having no need to be working about the place .
19 He will be astounded by the place names beginning with the three letters of each prefix .
20 All are in pieces , and spare parts , jars of gilt polish , winding keys , pendulums and the like are littered about the place .
21 Staff were advised that the company was looking for a new property when the search for a new suitable area began and when Aldermaston had been identified as the place where the new offices were to be built .
22 The object has been put in the place of the ego ideal .
23 The windows had been broken years ago but the railway company had boarded the frames up with wooden battens which were very effective ; they did however allow a view into the building and although the children could see in they were fascinated with the place and were happy playing in the cutting .
24 Romance and mystery were added to the place when Meade Falkner wrote Moonfleet , the classic children 's adventure story which was loosely based on this family and hamlet , though set nearer to the sea .
25 In a short campaigning season curtailed by either seasonal or financial considerations , or by both , the advantage did not lie with the attacker who , if he began a siege , risked being caught between the place he was seeking to capture and ( a constant fear ) a force coming to relieve the besieged .
26 Here in the Abu Dhabi/Al Ain area it was both a statement and a signature used only by those whose lives were rooted in the place .
27 They had left behind the Silberner Hirsch and were moving towards the place where I lay .
28 And I 'm sending all this lot off that did n't get sent off , and contacting I 'm being contacted about the place .
29 So that women porters could cope , the weight of luggage allowed to passengers was restricted and three women were employed in the place of two men .
30 Internationally , there were already questions being asked about the place of sport in a time of war .
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