Example sentences of "the place [Wh adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sunset and sunrise are to be taken at the place where the alleged offences were committed . |
| 2 | Long after the hearings , even after the trials , ‘ the White House basement ’ remained the place where the awful miasma had started . |
| 3 | to the place where the personal data are stored , to security measures programmed into the relevant equipment and to measures taken for ensuring the reliability of staff having access to the data . ’ |
| 4 | This must be the place where the mysterious man was hiding ! |
| 5 | Fiona : And the place where the Lost Boys had their tree-house was a bit babyish too . |
| 6 | At the end of the corridor which he describes , before you get to the rubbish , is the place where the young make love . |
| 7 | It was the place where the young shoemaker 's daughter lived . |
| 8 | It might be the place where the young of the West come to be seen , but it is the old guard who hold their ground , the poets and writers , pamphleteers and musicians who leave their mark on the atmosphere of this enchanted city . |
| 9 | The hotel stands on the water 's edge just outside the village-like town of Pallanza , in front of the tiny island of San Giovanni which is famed as the place where the great conductor Toscanini once lived . |
| 10 | Generally speaking , a subduction zone is the place where the major business of the earth 's surface is done . |
| 11 | Staff were advised that the company was looking for a new property when the search for a new suitable area began and when Aldermaston had been identified as the place where the new offices were to be built . |
| 12 | It is the place where the new recruit is most likely to learn about the ‘ typical ’ and ‘ difficult ’ kinds of cases . |
| 13 | Within seconds , it was halfway between him and the place where the other five members of B shift were grouped together , discussing procedure and checking through stacks of domestic stores for Moloch Base . |
| 14 | Although the Bois became notorious as the place where the respectable of society met the less respectable , it was nevertheless , in some sense , an extension of the Court itself , for the carriage outings of the Emperor and the Empress formed part of the spectacle : |
| 15 | The next morning he took us to the place where the evil Sir Hugo died . |
| 16 | She rolled back the sleeve to reveal the place where the false hand fitted to the arm . |
| 17 | Two hours later , the body has drifted far downstream , finally getting wedged at the top of the weir in Parson 's Pleasure — the place where the careless Howard Brown had earlier left his yellow programme — and his continental seven … |
| 18 | He 'd reached the place where the broken branch lay across the ride . |
| 19 | A person domiciled in a part of the United Kingdom may , in another part of the United Kingdom , be sued : ( 1 ) in matters relating to a contract , in the courts for the place of performance of the obligation in question ; … ( 3 ) in matters relating to tort , delict or quasi-delict , in the courts for the place where the harmful event occurred or in the case of a threatened wrong is likely to occur ; … ( 8 ) in proceedings — ( a ) concerning a debt secured on immovable property ; or ( b ) which are brought to assert , declare or determine proprietary or possessory rights , or rights of security , in or over movable property , or to obtain authority to dispose of movable property , in the courts of the part of the United Kingdom in which the property is situated . |
| 20 | I felt not only miserable , but strangely scared , as though the pass above me was in itself a terrifying manifestation of dark imaginings , like the entrance gate to the place where the dead wait in limbo . |
| 21 | As Jesus insisted in Luke 24:47 , it was all to begin in Jerusalem : hence the emphasis on Jerusalem as the place where the Pentecostal gift arrived . |
| 22 | Rourke stared down at the place where the menacing point of the scissors threatened his solar plexus . |
| 23 | If you do proceed with your venturi , then the principle is very simple : using solvent weld cement , glue a conical reducing piece into the intended pipe so that the narrow end of the ‘ nozzle ’ is just into the place where the upright venturi pipe connects in . |
| 24 | In December 1757 he tried to excuse himself ‘ as my abode is at such distance from the place where the Royal Society hold their weekly meetings as to render it not only inconvenient , but unsafe for me to attend them in the winter season. , A month later Ellis countered with , ‘ I scarce think it possible that Mr. Miller should have no one friend in the Society to send him word and , indeed , I had told Rivington to tell Miller I would be glad to discuss the matter at Fulham , and Miller ignored it . ’ |
| 25 | It also has one sad literary connection with England , as the place where the excellent late-Victorian novelist George Gigging died . |