Example sentences of "[det] be no place for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is no place for a short Sunday afternoon stroll , the paths are very well marked but the going is tough . |
| 2 | Clearly this is no place for novices but it is possible for them , if armed with a torch and wearing boots and clothes that do n't matter , to go into one hole and emerge from the other , the two entrance passages converging after fifteen yards of stumbling progress . |
| 3 | This is no place for state secrets . ’ |
| 4 | Shaking me slightly — so that my teeth rattled — it said , ‘ This is no place for you , whoever you may be . ’ |
| 5 | This was no place for the frail ball player . |
| 6 | Yet this was no place for the faint hearted , and Jimmy knew it . |
| 7 | This was no place for the living . |
| 8 | Clearly this was no place for me , and having tiptoed back to the sitting-room , I switched on a light and picked up the evening paper . |
| 9 | This was no place for it . |
| 10 | This was no place for an aspiring poet . |
| 11 | This was no place for me to linger . |
| 12 | This was no place for a theological argument and it was essential she get on terms . |