Example sentences of "[vb base] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.

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1 Even though the World Cup will swamp the domestic competition , the Shield will still continue to provide some of the most riveting cricket of the summer as these four highly-competitive sides battle for the two places in the five-day final .
2 How does it happen that these stimuli are so arranged in space that the right kinds of cells appear in the right places ?
3 If both NL and LD , or if both EX and CS , are switched on ; only NL and EX respectively will show on the screen : both pairs of codes appear in the same places and NL and EX take priority if both are on .
4 The reflected waves interfere with the incoming waves to produce a pattern of standing waves or clapotis , the crests of which always appear in the same places ( Fig. 8. 1A ) .
5 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 .
6 And then we had to cut those out , by hands hand , that er of course entailed quite a lot of work er for er for the mortices to be cleaned out , and the tenons to be cut by hand , so that they fit in the proper places .
7 Little knock on the right place … ’
8 My husband was mad on golf , and he used to go down into the park and send golf balls onto the lawn and then walk back through the rose garden which I put in the wrong place .
9 I dive to the only place I can go : shoulder first through Richardson 's window .
10 In which case , since Copenhagen is n't the biggest capital in Europe , the chances are that if we look in the right places we 'll find them sooner or later ! ’
11 Erm it 's surprising what you get in here if you look in the right places .
12 The first and second layer spacing is obtained similarly from α c measured along directions for which the first and second layer atoms lie in the same place .
13 Winters are wild enough to curtail many of the outdoor pursuits that attract in the first place .
14 I leave that matter to the other place .
15 Oh it was cutting , definitely cutting it down yes , and I er remember in the first place before erm all this automation was brought in , they used to do the casting er a man and his son used to do all the casting and believe me it was hard work , er the real old way you know er with the fires and that and everything like that and heating the things up in a bellows .
16 They are nearly always the same people and they nearly always sit in the same places .
17 Why did the Third World borrow in the first place ?
18 In view of the complexity of the psycholinguistic abilities which contribute to normal language functioning , it is perhaps not surprising that attempts to explain how these abilities emerge in the first place and are orchestrated into the unified process which we recognise as language have met with only limited success .
19 I watched them decide on the wrong place and paint the first mark carefully round a sapling 's trunk .
20 Thus the pilots may be found in the Engines Section absorbing the means whereby the aviation spirit and flames arrive at the right place at the right time to produce the urge for forward movement , or they could be watching in some fascination an array of lights and switches on a array known as ‘ electrics ’ which behave themselves so well under the persuasion of the engines instructor , but which flash and fail to respond in such heart-breaking fashion when the student is urged to demonstrate that he has ‘ got ’ it .
21 Each Land Registry deals with a certain number of counties , and readers are referred to the current edition of Longman 's Directory of Local Authorities in order to ensure that their applications for First Registration or for a dealing arrive at the right place .
22 And they make to the same place to their feed .
23 if I stay in the right place .
24 And we stay in the same place !
25 If I stay in the same place for too long I get stale . ’
26 If you stay in the same place then the whole process of sexual reproduction means that indeed there are uniform populations which are hybridizing with one another and then barriers to other hybridizing population , but not if you move about .
27 E. People have some choice of where to shop , but normally they go to the nearest place which has the type of goods they want .
28 Go to the right places and there will be a big railway station or a billboard full of flickering neon lights .
29 Well what happens if you go to the wrong place ?
30 They always go to the same place .
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