Example sentences of "the [adj] place [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps we are looking entirely in the wrong place for any significant employment gains in industry . |
| 2 | Physical training occupies the central place in most formal schemes of rehabilitation . |
| 3 | And yet the effective place of this life-soiled object is in the body of the book , nourishing the reality of the whole Marmeladov set-up , like the children 's washed day-clothes drying overnight . |
| 4 | It goes without saying — so we 'll say it — that STDs are best avoided in the first place by routine sexual hygiene and precautions . |
| 5 | But despite Mick 'n' Keef 'n' more besides , and playing an important role in shaping Britain 's nascent youth culture , it is but recently that Reading has once again become the only place for any self-respecting hep cat to pitch a tent during late August . |
| 6 | The crypt was not yet finished and , strangely enough , was the only place in that entire abbey where Eadred seemed rather nervous and unwilling to linger . |
| 7 | SIR — I have now lived in the same place through nine general elections without once seeing , let alone being accosted by , a parliamentary candidate . |
| 8 | Explanations of Japan 's unique cultural tradition have as their base then , a belief in the vital place of liberal democratic institutions in the post-1947 era . |
| 9 | He helped them into the railway coach , stood the dark lantern on the floor , checked the blinds and curtains with the torch , slammed the carriage door and flooded the whole place with good old-fashioned electric light . |
| 10 | The safest place for any significant amount has to be the bank . ’ |