Example sentences of "a [adj] place [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed a strange place for a red-bearded revolutionary socialist to live . |
| 2 | In 1944 he was awarded a free place as a weekly boarder at Rowan House School . |
| 3 | The Hole in the Wall , a once basic pub in Darlington Market Place , has also become a popular place for a Thai break . |
| 4 | One did not behave like that in a public place with a young man , suitable or otherwise , and John was so very much otherwise . |
| 5 | THE MIDDLE of the road is a dangerous place for a young pop band to pitch its tent — so many that do so are run over by press disfavour and public disinterest . |
| 6 | THE MIDDLE of the road is a dangerous place for a young pop band to pitch its tent — so many that do so are run over by press disfavour and public disinterest . |
| 7 | There was a museum on the southern shore , and the coast was lined by terraces of comfortable villas ; a band-stand occupied a prominent place on a new promenade , and at dusk a large crowd thronged round to listen to the music ministered to them by a company of musicians , what some call in Scotland a ‘ brass band . ’ |
| 8 | Check that the bridge hasn ‘ t moved , then leave in a warm place for a further 24 hours to allow the glue to harden fully . |
| 9 | The player , a black man , sat in the furthest corner of the caravan , in a shadowy place beside a sleeping child . |
| 10 | It 's not a fit place for a young girl to be . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ And it 's not a fit place for a young girl to have a baby , ’ snapped McAllister , who had just seen that his patient was little more than a child , ‘ but she 's having one , all the same . |
| 12 | It is a fine place in a delightful old palazzo . |
| 13 | Yet the fascinating study taken by Eadweard Muybridge in the 1870s earns a rightful place in a new book on the history of cricket photography by ace shutterman Patrick Eagar . |
| 14 | He and my mother bought it when it was nothing — a run-down place with a shabby décor and an even shabbier reputation . |
| 15 | A group of works by contemporaries , often friends collected by an enthusiastic and discerning individual is always appealing and ken Powell takes a deserved place in a long line of such patrons . |
| 16 | I mean , you 're not gon na be it 's not as though you 're gon na be having people staying or erm I mean if you 're gon na get a little place with a little single bed in |
| 17 | A place at grammar school was seen as hardly more genuinely open to everyone than a fee-paying place at a public school ; and so the move towards comprehensive schools was made , largely on grounds of justice . |
| 18 | A thousand feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be — especially with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand . |
| 19 | Just 1,000 feet on the QNH in solid cloud and driving rain ‘ somewhere near Maidenhead ’ is not a good place for a young pilot to be , especially one with less than eighty hours flying time , no ratings , and in an aeroplane flown for only a few hours beforehand ! |
| 20 | A good place for a separate cubicle is in a corner , because two of the necessary walls already exist , and only have to tiled . |
| 21 | The zoo 's always a good place for a few laughs . |
| 22 | ‘ It is a terrible place with a terrible secret . ’ |
| 23 | The basic idea is that in order to study a single linguistic feature , the investigator will elicit a set word or phrase in entirely naturalistic conditions from persons who happen to be in a given place at a given time . |
| 24 | Without concentrations of activity at a given place at a given time there would be no patterns , no spatial or areal differentiation . |
| 25 | It follows that behind every statement we make about the historical Jesus there has to be a tacit qualification : ‘ We are told this by such-and-such an evangelist , writing in a particular literary mode , far a particular audience , in a particular place at a particular period of history . ’ |
| 26 | Take the flipping , a particular or token event which occurred only in a particular place at a particular time , to be f , and the starting to be 5 . |
| 27 | Singular statements , unlike a second class of statements that we will meet shortly , refer to a particular occurrence or state of affairs at a particular place at a particular time . |
| 28 | The problem essentially is that you have got simultaneously to account credibly for someone not being at a certain place at a certain time and to account for them precisely being there . |
| 29 | Even if he is murdered by a homicidal maniac he has chosen to be at a certain place at a certain time . |
| 30 | Small-scale production may have a certain place within a socialist economy but as a general alternative to modern large-scale industry it is merely utopian . |