Example sentences of "place [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , in the first place obviously the size of the sex cell Er , er its genes , the size of the sex cell , the food it gives its offspring , the protection it gives it , the transportation , education , instruction , protection , er you name it erm whatever the parent does , in the case of birds , warmth is a major factor , incubating the eggs . |
| 2 | Although the attack by a young Jew on the German Legation Secretary in Paris , Ernst vom Rath , had taken place just the day before his usual address to the Party ‘ old guard ’ in Munich on 8 November 1935 , Hitler avoided all mention of it in his speech . |
| 3 | Thus wetting involves a reduction of energy and will take place whenever the liquid is given the opportunity to meet the solid . |
| 4 | Other developments in water-dispensing systems have taken place e.g. the use of ‘ barriers ’ or ‘ shelves ’ at various levels . |
| 5 | The conditions attaching to grant are that the D S S transfer , eighty five percent of it has to be spent on the independent sector , and there are monitoring mechanisms in place whereby the government is going to assure itself that has happened . |
| 6 | Pending the design of the new system , a ‘ fix ’ was put in place whereby the data was manually calculated and transmitted — but this meant using another unreliable system ! |
| 7 | Her very good degree and her dedication had earned her a place here the year before and now she taught English to girls who were only too willing to be taught . |
| 8 | If , however , those tastes have been generated by companies in the first place then the idea of consumer sovereignty is overthrown . |
| 9 | It is pointed out as the place where the warriors were buried . |
| 10 | The boy led them up one of the dark streets to a place where the houses were tall and thin and so closely packed together that door followed immediately upon door . |
| 11 | The Court of Appeal had decided that , where the offence takes place in , there was no reason to require the presence of any bystander , actual or likely , since by definition a public place was a place where the public were likely to be . |
| 12 | After months of work Prestbury Park looked proud of itself today on the eve of what horseracing folk regard as their Olympic games … to race … to ride … to watch at Cheltenham is the highlight of the year … millions of pounds will be bet on the nineteen races that make up the festival and this is one place where the budget rarely bites … |
| 13 | If he has rendered a service or engaged in an activity such as the manufacture of goods , the profit will have arisen or derived from the place where the service was rendered or the profit making activity carried on . |
| 14 | postal towns tend to be the place where the council is . |
| 15 | At the place where the head distorted the linen into a spherical bulge , the crisp whiteness was marred by an ugly dark red stain . |
| 16 | The field is a place where the farmer comes to work ; he plants and fertilises and waters and weeds and reaps . |
| 17 | It was the place where the rivers of the East and West Dart met before rushing down , full-blown to Totnes . |
| 18 | 1 What impression did you get of the place where the story is set ? 2 How did the life of the children at that time compare with your life ? 3 Do you believe in ghosts ? |
| 19 | She had reached the place where the Dalek Killer had entered one of the six squat buildings that made up the central complex . |
| 20 | ‘ So , ’ Corbett enquired , ‘ you never went along to Kinghorn Ness or examined the place where the King may have fallen ? ’ |
| 21 | In the centre a huge canopy shielded the place where the king and his leading nobility would sit . |
| 22 | She went to the place where the King had sat . |
| 23 | In this context such formulations have a slightly ambivalent status : " the place where the sun had gone down " ( p. 216 ) or " the water had scooped a bowl out of the rock " ( p. 217 ) are reminiscent of the language of the first part of the novel , but need not , in another context , appear deviant . |
| 24 | But Meadowell 's air suggests a place where the rhetoric of ‘ permanent recession ’ takes on a chilling substance . |
| 25 | They would be voting to divert attention from the one place where the merits or otherwise of fox hunting should be decided and considered amongst M Ps , you will note amongst MPs not by government , this is a matter for a free vote of conscience . |
| 26 | This has become a Place where the man who cares passionately for his craft — lighting or stage work — comes to show what he really can do . |
| 27 | The word here denotes the ( pragmatically bounded ) place where the speaker ( A ) is at the time of speaking ; if B does not know ( or can not find out ) where A is , here is uninterpretable in the sense that B can not comply with the request to go there . |
| 28 | One place where the boys went , then were killed . ’ |
| 29 | Of course , a party may be excused from having to produce a document on the grounds that this would violate the law of the place where the document is kept . |
| 30 | The place where the offence was committed should be inserted here . |