Example sentences of "[adv] a place " in BNC.
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| 1 | MIP is basically a place where the big guys parade their wares . |
| 2 | It is merely a place |
| 3 | But obviously a place not already converted would cost less initially , and the price of rebuilding would be spread over a longer period . |
| 4 | The road tops a hill and commences a long descent to a built-up area that , even when seen at a distance , is obviously a place of greater importance than any yet seen on the journey . |
| 5 | For him it now became less a place of protest than a refuge for failures , free-loaders and misfits . |
| 6 | Yet , as one of his prose pieces of the period reveals , the desert remained for him not only a place of death , but also a place of Christian triumph . |
| 7 | For patients with isolated systolic hypertension perhaps there is only a place for dietary therapy , as although this form of hypertension is associated with increased mortality and morbidity ( Kannel et al , 1980 ) , evidence is lacking that drug therapy is beneficial . |
| 8 | But I watched her transform the house from being their place — and it had been only a place , child-soiled , functional — into her home . |
| 9 | Only a place like that , for instance , could have produced the idea of Superman , this kind of man-God alien who comes to Earth , to America of course , puts on a red , white and blue colour scheme — disgusting , is n't it ? |
| 10 | So then you we can tighten in on the site to not only a place actually on the site but how far down they came from as well . |
| 11 | Perhaps in art today there is no longer a place for middles , he wrote . |
| 12 | Camus photographed by Cartier-Bresson : left and far left , Algiers today , no longer a place where ‘ even the poorest men walk like gods beneath the heat-soaked sky ’ |
| 13 | Today the black ghetto 's become a model for everybody 's experience : the city 's no longer a place of opportunity but a ‘ hell ’ to be survived . |
| 14 | The Scentmakers ' Bazaar was not normally a place she would have allowed herself to have been seen dead in . |
| 15 | It 's normally a place for quiet reflection in the midst of the commercial centre of Edinburgh , but this morning it 's full of books – boxes and boxes of them wherever you look – and people sorting them for the annual Christian Aid Book Sale . |
| 16 | Surprising though cause normally a place like that can need a car |
| 17 | There , in 612 , he established his hermitage , which was soon a place of pilgrimage . |
| 18 | This is the pub as social institution , so much more than just a place for drinking . |
| 19 | You 're saying it 's just a place where you 're happy . ’ |
| 20 | It was just a place where she had been left , and as she grew out of infancy she knew that it was her mother who had left her there . |
| 21 | It 's just a place people go to listen to a little music , you know ? |
| 22 | The Bar was not just a place , but also a person ; The Bar was Madame . |
| 23 | After years of greatness it was just a place like any other place . |
| 24 | It turned out that Lou wanted a garden pond of the wildlife variety — no fish , she stipulated , just a place where garden birds could come to drink , and where frogs and newts could frolic . |
| 25 | But Seefeld is far more than just a place to swing your mashie niblick . |
| 26 | It is an island merely , a place with a history and a beautiful name , but just a place . |
| 27 | After all , there are lots of people for whom the cinema is just a place to go , to get away from the children for a few hours , to be together perhaps , for a courting couple . |
| 28 | It 's far more than just a place to drink ; it 's the social and conversational heart of any Irish village . |
| 29 | They ignored the threats of the house and from everything else , it was just a place to grow . |
| 30 | Generally a place is public if the majority of the public have access to it . |