Example sentences of "place [adv] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Napoleon III had already found it useful as a place where a few quiet days might be spent with a friend . |
| 32 | They went across the fields and came to a place where a few stones lay , giving no indication at all that they had once combined to form a dwelling for holy women . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | By the time I had been an intern for a few more months , doing my rounds in my white coat with stethoscope dangling round my neck ( and feeling very important ) , Father had had to close down the second branch , leaving — for the time being — only the original shop which he had opened near the Market Place where the annual Goose Fair was held . |
| 35 | At the end of the corridor which he describes , before you get to the rubbish , is the place where the young make love . |
| 36 | It was the place where the young shoemaker 's daughter lived . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Fiona : And the place where the Lost Boys had their tree-house was a bit babyish too . |
| 39 | Sunset and sunrise are to be taken at the place where the alleged offences were committed . |
| 40 | This was a place where the Soviet world was a thing of books and newspapers and television shows and magazines — not tangible . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | It is the place where the new recruit is most likely to learn about the ‘ typical ’ and ‘ difficult ’ kinds of cases . |
| 43 | It 's a very beautiful place where the friendly feel of the climbs reflects the gentle scenery . |
| 44 | See , the very place where the mighty throng and the Empress Judith Had been standing , and with them the boy Charles himself ! |
| 45 | 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 : |
| 46 | One such place where the two plates are edging past each other is at the San Andreas fault in Northern California : the consequences of a major release of tension along that line are too well-known , and too horrific , to bear repeating here . |
| 47 | Long after the hearings , even after the trials , ‘ the White House basement ’ remained the place where the awful miasma had started . |
| 48 | The museum is also the place where the closest consideration can be given to the troublesome problems of fakes and other forms of inauthenticity . |
| 49 | Jespersen ( 1940 : 157 ) sets the problem in more general terms : To is used with an infinitive in the first place where the usual meaning of the preposition is distinctly felt : he went to fetch his hat / he was led ( inclined ) to believe — or is more or less vaguely present : ready to believe/anxious to believe . |
| 50 | Well into the seventeenth century , the Alps were seen as a place where the only activity was shovelling snow from the 45° pastures . |
| 51 | It is very unusual to find a tone-unit boundary at a place where the only grammatical boundary is between words . |
| 52 | Generally speaking , a subduction zone is the place where the major business of the earth 's surface is done . |
| 53 | This must be the place where the mysterious man was hiding ! |
| 54 | Move the cursor to the place where the second document is to be inserted |
| 55 | Perhaps if he seized the moment , lifted her long mane of hair , kissed the tender little place where the fragile bones disappeared into the collar of her jacket … |
| 56 | One difficulty remains in that a mining venture would still need to find a way through to the deposit in a place where the sedimentary layer is not too thick . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | Parliament must be the primary place where the conflicting claims and interests of society can be articulated and resolved . |
| 59 | It was this last that gave him pause , for , he was to say , ‘ Although I had no knowledge of it — that place where the Twelve Judges sit — I believed that I had long since dreamed it , and I knew it for a place of great finality and immense power . |
| 60 | Based on a prescient Philip K Dick short story , it depicts a place where the poor roam the streets and moneyed dwellers live either on nearby planets or well-protected fortresses . |