Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They gave support to the Beacon and Elfreda Rathbone nurseries and most members saw these settings as the best places to ‘ treat ’ children . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The week Donald White was shot , New York saw eight similar deaths : black students , good kids in the right place at the wrong moment . |
| 6 | He could serve up waves in the right place at the right time — or not . |
| 7 | They were little eyes in the first place . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't agree with play-offs in the first place . |
| 9 | Smacking , says Leach , will not help the toddler 's anger , frustration and fear , which create tantrums in the first place . |
| 10 | Further difficulties lay in raising funds in the first place . |
| 11 | ‘ We are funding Two Castles in the first place . |
| 12 | The major constraints which tenure conditions impose upon conservation programmes that discourage private initiatives to invest in conservation practices are short leases which tempt the tenant to remove as much plant material and nutrients as possible from the soil within the period of tenancy ; insecurity of tenants in longer leases ; uncertainty of compensation to tenants by landlords for conservation works at the end of the lease ; and a lack of an accepted means by which landlord and tenant can share these outlays in the first place ( Barlowe 1958 ) . |
| 13 | If you want the same philosophy , stay in Britain and do your shopping for both cars in the same place , in Blackpool . |
| 14 | Search unemployment can be seen as part of the annual turnover of the job market — firms rid themselves of workers who have proved to be unproductive or unsatisfactory in some way , and workers quit jobs which have failed to meet their expectations or which were intended only as stop-gaps in the first place . |
| 15 | And I 've borrowed money to go out to shops in the first place |
| 16 | And obviously other criminal organizations with spies in the right places would hear about . |
| 17 | The managerial implications are profound in many ways but above all a management framework must be created which facilitates such relationships in the first place and then allows them to flourish . |
| 18 | His letter was hearty , breezy , man-to-man : let it never be thought , it seemed to say , that I am the man who can put your academic career on the chopping block by a couple of words in the right places . |
| 19 | But since some writers do seem to have an aversion to the hyphen — just as they have lost the art of splitting words in the logical places ( tran-sport , winds-creen , ins-pector , screwd-river , etc ) — let them run them together for clarity . |
| 20 | He had a curious way of stressing words in the wrong place , sometimes swallowing them completely , but there was a hypnotic singsong quality to his voice which made it very hard to concentrate on what he was actually saying . |
| 21 | When you have copied precisely bar ten would you please now finish bar ten by putting the tails in the right places . |
| 22 | To get to the Bungles in the first place needs a certain pioneering spirit as it involves a seven-hour drive from Kununurra , and the last three are over rough terrain that can be tackled only by four-wheel-drive vehicles . |
| 23 | I have read his highly critical speeches in the other place about the difficulties that he repeatedly encountered when trying to pursue European legislation and the obstruction that emanated from senior Ministers . |
| 24 | The basis for all these conclusions seems to be that because there are bad comprehensive schools the system must be abandoned ( and if this is not the intention it is likely to be the secondary education for all , which led to the establishment of comprehensive schools in the first place , has , it seems , to be given up in favour of ‘ good ’ education for some and ‘ bad ’ for others , the ‘ good ’ now being variously identified with the rigorous , the vocational , and the wealth-producing . |
| 25 | They spend months in the wild places of the world , they have all the atavistic pleasures of the hunt without the guilt of killing , they see the wonders of the world direct , not on the small screen , and they get paid for it . |
| 26 | Yet , as if some kind of mathematical progression took hold of him , Johnson 's accounts of the several places in which he found himself , get longer , with Raasay the longest so far . |
| 27 | Repechages for the other places were rowed on Tuesday evening but yesterday 's final was cancelled when the wind blew up again and made racing out of the question . |
| 28 | MORE and more savers are turning to unit trusts as the best place to tuck away their money now that interest rates at banks and building societies are plunging . |
| 29 | This research is exploring this relationship via a detailed examination of the origins , operation and effects of the Assisted Places Scheme , introduced by the Conservative government in 1981 to provide places in certain independent schools ‘ for academically able children whose parents can not otherwise afford the full tuition fees ’ . |
| 30 | Although EEC policy is necessarily uniform for the Community as a whole , member governments are responsible for applying it in ways which are relevant to local problems , just as they were for identifying boundaries of their Less Favoured Areas in the first place . |