Example sentences of "place be [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their restraint was mainly due to their feeling of strangeness — it was unique for them to be sharing the seats with the men , their usual place being in the high gallery around the side-walls . |
| 2 | The place is off the beaten track , two bumpy miles wrecking the car suspension and who gives a damn ? |
| 3 | Enough disruption to ensure that the place is in a continual ferment of reorganization which in other companies may well be a good thing to have . |
| 4 | Those exquisite hand-tailored shoes would not feel that their place is in an airy whirl of orgasmic delight . |
| 5 | That place is like a dead house when you 're out of it . |
| 6 | It finds an answer in many places in the larger narrative , and one of those places is in the dark comedy of the two chapters immediately following our chosen passage . |
| 7 | whilst , if a privilege existed , it was up to the House to decide whether there had been a breach , the existence of the privilege in the first place was for the common law to decide and it was for the courts , and not the House , to declare the common law . |
| 8 | it was so obvious , cos they were n't spending no money on it , the place was in a right state |
| 9 | The first meeting place was in a small room with only one window in Lady Stair 's Close , Lawnmarket . |
| 10 | The slate roof was mildewed in places and the guttering shaky , but otherwise the place was in a good state of repair . |
| 11 | By closing time the place was like an alcoholic Turkish bath , and leaving it for the trip over Stonesdale Moor in the lashing rain was a sore wrench indeed . |