Example sentences of "being [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | They tend to privilege their own language , to make claims for it which derive from the requirements which brought it into being in the first place . |
| 2 | Examples of the former — recombining existing elements — would be the way this eclecticism in 1960s rock came into being in the first place , formed as it was from disparate sources , including many elements from bourgeois ‘ art music ’ ; or the way rhythmic techniques derived from working-class black American music were combined with other elements in 1920s dance music to signify a kind of safe but exotic , hedonist escapism for a broad grouping of classes in Britain . |
| 3 | If we turn the clock back to the beginning of the desktop publishing marketplace in order to trace its development and evolution we first need to establish exactly what desktop publishing was conceived as being in the first place . |
| 4 | Being in the right place at the right time is all important in fishing , and living on the doorstep of the river gave me the advantage . |
| 5 | It means grasping opportunities and being in the right place at the right time . |
| 6 | His first two were classic cases of being in the right place at the right time . |
| 7 | Glenn , who has one daughter and two grand-daughters , said he was very impressed with the NHS but thinks his was a case of being in the right place at the right time . |
| 8 | Earlier that year he had met a merchant from London who had money to spare and was looking for a likely speculation and Harry , being in the right place at the right time for once , had sold him the idea of investing in a privateering cruise to the Americas . |
| 9 | Situational ie based on being in the right place at the right time , |
| 10 | Similarly , the English levies attempting to cope with the raiders of 1009 – 12 are criticised for never being in the right place , but again without further explanation . |
| 11 | Basler have a knack of being in the right place at the right time for acquiring military disposals , their ramp is currently full for former Canadian Armed Forces Daks , awaiting their turn for conversion . |
| 12 | They do nt even create his goals — he s just got that luck/knack of being in the right place for deflections etc . |
| 13 | They had done so by being in the right place at the right time , for the first and last time in their history . |
| 14 | It was n't a graceful goal , but being in the right place at the right time is what counts . |
| 15 | It exists all the more by being in the same place as power . |
| 16 | Being the wrong age , being in the wrong place at the wrong time , or being domiciled in a particular district reverse the assumptions of due process . |
| 17 | Did I mess up your plans by being in the wrong place at the wrong time ? ’ |
| 18 | The young baby in the carry-cot described by the IRA as an accident of war , the young nun serving the community described by the IRA as being in the wrong place at the wrong time and a fireman trying to put out a blaze described by the IRA as helping the British war machine — we did not expect to reach the stage where the IRA would break every precept of human compassion and morality by bombing a hospital . |
| 19 | So I 've done a variety of jobs , and I 'm not quite sure how I ended up doing what I 'm doing I got into computers by accident , just being in the wrong place at the wrong time . |