Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Daren Foster , coming to the end of his present contract , and Steve Bastien are in effect competing for one place . |
| 2 | He was the latest in a long line of seasoned golfers to contract the yips and as a direct result slumped to 51st place on the Order of Merit . |
| 3 | One walks between the banks that show where the houses stood , marking how blocks of squared masonry thrust in one place out of the turf ( a more important building than most of them ) , and how the tree-roots twist among the rubble footings of the peasant dwellings ; and one picks up pieces of twelfth- and thirteenth-century pottery — mere sherds , bits of rim , of sides , of bases , but all datable : nothing later than the Black Death , when the great silence descended . |
| 4 | Dot thought about that place where they 'd visited him long ago , with soldiers guarding the main gate , and long low buildings surrounded by grass clipped so flat there was nowhere for a running man to hide . |
| 5 | One area of normal animation that can cause some heartaches is backgrounding and the scrolling of scenery as action moves from one place to another . |
| 6 | In North Division moved into second place with a 24–12 win Hartlepool whose outstanding player , full back Marty Saunders , scored a consolation try , Alan Calvert adding the conversion and two penalties . |
| 7 | Was anything of Jeopardy left in this place ? |
| 8 | people want more mobility to travel from one place to another . |
| 9 | With Llanelli held to a draw , Neath took the opportunity to leapfrog into third place with a 27–15 home win over South Wales Police . |
| 10 | Motherwell should beat Partick at Fir Park to leapfrog into ninth place while in the battle of Brockville the losers of the Falkirk v Airdrie match will , realistically , have little chance of avoiding the drop . |
| 11 | After his inclusion in the side the Town rose from seventeenth place to third , where they finished the season , their highest position yet . |
| 12 | The general picture obtained for decimal place value is not a very happy one . |
| 13 | I was required every day to go to another place and put cards coloured like the cooked liver of a duck into alphabetical order . |
| 14 | The greater the fraction of atoms with that speed the greater the intensity of metal deposited at that place . |
| 15 | MIDDLESBROUGH suffered a major blow to their promotion hopes when they spurned the chance to climb into third place . |
| 16 | Argentina 's Jorge Recalde , who had been Sainz 's main challenger through the six-day rally fell to third place , 59 minutes behind the leader after both the rear and front drive shafts of his Lancia HF Integrale failed . |
| 17 | We can , then , apply his metaphor to our studies : ‘ Thus the ‘ magic circles ’ pivot , shifting as a person moves from one place in society to another . ’ |
| 18 | One won the overall champion of champions title and the other finished in third place . |
| 19 | Hartlepool have a chance to move into seventh place when they play Stockport County at Victoria Ground tonight . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) The Director may by notice in writing require the person under investigation or any other person to produce at such place as may be specified in the notice and either forthwith or at such time as may be so specified any specified documents which appear to the Director to relate to any matter relevant to the investigation or any documents of a specified description which appear to him so to relate ; and — ( a ) if any such documents are produced , the Director may — ( i ) take copies or extracts from them ; ( ii ) require the person producing them to provide an explanation of any of them ; ( b ) if any such documents are not produced , the Director may require the person who was required to produce them to state , to the best of his knowledge and belief , where they are . |
| 21 | And the Sheikh 's dominance has been maintained this year as he heads the table with some £1.75m in prize money , half a million ahead of his older brother , Hamdan Al Maktoum , who owns Nashwan , with Sangster languishing in 10th place with a mere £250,000 or so in the kitty . |
| 22 | Abergele boosted their Division Two title prospects with a maximum points mauling of bottom team Menai Bridge to move into second place . |
| 23 | its dismal career ended with eighth place at Monza in 1971 , Emerson Fittipaldi driving . |
| 24 | Edwards , a 26-year-old medical scientist , jumped 17.26 metres in the first round to move to third place on the world outdoor rankings for 1992 , behind Frank Rutherford of the Bahamas ( 17.41 metres ) and German Ralf Jaros ( 17.28 ) . |
| 25 | Where the snout , or end , of a glacier stayed in one place for many years — which was when the ice was advancing at the same rate as it was melting — more and more boulder clay was dumped at the glacier snout . |
| 26 | I hope that when the Bill goes to another place the words recorded in the Official Report , spoken both in Committee and on the Floor of the House , will be examined carefully and that what we have started will be built upon to make the Bill even better than it is . |
| 27 | Only his secretary knew of this place . |
| 28 | For more definition in certain areas I allowed the cutter to stay in one place long enough to burn the surface of the timber . |
| 29 | Rousseau 's influential articles , however , had the additional purpose of discrediting the style of music associated with that place . |
| 30 | Why was this allowed to happen ; or to put it another way , why were issues of distribution within society put into second place ? |