Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | We must embrace change in the way we do things , to get better value for money to go to more places and cover more stories . |
| 2 | He suffered a jaw broken in two places which had to be wired up for five weeks . |
| 3 | He left PC Jones in a pool of blood with a jaw shattered in three places . |
| 4 | Daren Foster , coming to the end of his present contract , and Steve Bastien are in effect competing for one place . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The same figure occurs in several places in a textbook . |
| 7 | Even in a system dominated by the class cleavage , there is no necessity for people on the same side of the cleavage living in different places to favour the same political party . |
| 8 | Zuwaya probably used marriages to create alliances with members of other lineages living in the same place , and to maintain connection with members of the same lineage living in different places , even though they did not feel the same ecological pressures as the members of the Saadi confederation . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In many respects , the mining frontier in colonial and foreign countries moved through the City of London 's major capital markets : gold and silver strikes in far-away places captured the imagination of different types of investors and speculators creating segmented share markets such as the ‘ Kaffir Circus ’ and ‘ the Jungle ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Michael Peck made 87 but then had his cheekbone broken in two places after being struck while fielding at silly point . |
| 15 | They also complain about the shortage of wood brought about by iron smelting , and ask for opinions on that matter : " … also of any opinion conceived of the great consumpcon of timber and all other kinds of wood made in divers places thereabouts by the Iron Mynes " ( they must refer to wood taken for charcoal burning for the furnaces , the iron mines at this stage would not be using large amounts of timber , but the woodlands were decimated for this reason . |
| 16 | Was anything of Jeopardy left in this place ? |
| 17 | people want more mobility to travel from one place to another . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The Bible refers in many places to the importance of the home environment . |
| 21 | After his inclusion in the side the Town rose from seventeenth place to third , where they finished the season , their highest position yet . |
| 22 | I do not think the compulsion to write about foreign places can be very closely compared to a painter 's sensuous delight in new light , new forms , new colours , Monet seeing the Cap d'Antibes in blue and rose , Turner seeing the bright watery Venetian light in Venice , Gauguin in Tahiti . |
| 23 | Most Scots believe they have a moral right to walk in wild places provided they are causing no harm and behave appropriately . |
| 24 | But cases of die links between different places or over a long period of time are unusual . |
| 25 | But , as Action on Smoking and Health predicted that within a few years the majority of companies will have smoking policies , Roger Stubbs , deputy managing director of MORI , warned a confrontation is looming between ‘ green consumers ’ and ‘ smoking civil libertarians ’ who insist aggressively on their right to smoke in public places or at work . |
| 26 | The general picture obtained for decimal place value is not a very happy one . |
| 27 | I was required every day to go to another place and put cards coloured like the cooked liver of a duck into alphabetical order . |
| 28 | For the next two years the King lived in various places , sometimes treated as a prisoner , sometimes as an honoured guest , but hardly ever able to consult with his most trusted advisers . |
| 29 | For a variety of historical reasons , initial development occurs in some places and not in others . |
| 30 | I would simply say that if you want to know what happened in America after Pop and Minimalism , you have to concentrate on art made in unconventional places and with unconventional materials : out of the studio art , land-art , body-art and video . |