Example sentences of "place that was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was freezing — literally — so after a not-too-exhaustive search we settled for a place that was warm and , as it turned out , very good . |
| 2 | We searched for kilometres — it seemed — to find a crossing point , eventually reaching a lake and being forced to cross at a place that was nowhere near as good as a dozen we had passed and dismissed as unsuitable . |
| 3 | I would go and find a place that was open for business . |
| 4 | We went to a place that was called ‘ Judges ’ . |
| 5 | Two rooms led out of it — the scullery , and a long , low barn of a place that was absolutely bare . |
| 6 | Third term Thatcherism became grounded in the imaginary place that was called the inner city . |
| 7 | I went there once , to see a place that was thus twice blessed , by histories both recent and more ancient . |
| 8 | He thought of the latrine and the T-junction of a water-main pipe , and a hole that had been carved from the snow and frozen earth , and a screw top cover that was lagged at night , and a place that was in shadow from the arc lamps of the perimeter fences . |
| 9 | It was not a place that was easy to get into , or out of . |
| 10 | Like a place that was waiting to die . |
| 11 | But one can still go to Shardlow , which has sunk back into obscurity , and see the tall warehouses , the wharves , and the later Georgian Shardlow Hall where the prosperous James Sutton lived , and all the other evidences of a place that was virtually created by the canal age . |
| 12 | Crowds of people and mountains of goods , departing and arriving scores upon scores of times in every four-and-twenty hours , produced a fermentation in the place that was always in action . |
| 13 | I had just turned sixteen and they put me in this place that was really for dossers . |
| 14 | Perhaps the Gaskells behaved like outsiders but the community was there , ready and open to them ; all they had to do was to slip into the place that was offered . |
| 15 | Then I found a place that was clearly headlined as a singles " bar , and no one tried to keep me out Now I 'd read about these VD workshops in Scum and Miasma , both of which adopted a markedly high-handed line . |
| 16 | It would be the first time she had ever been with John to a place that was part of her own particular world , unless one counted the Ash Wednesday lunchtime service at her uncle 's church . |
| 17 | In that square place that was over there , it was a pantry , some of them were so fused together they were holding each other . |
| 18 | She wanted to stay here , the place that was her idea of heaven — Fen 's arms . |
| 19 | Subtitled ‘ A short history of Everton , its Mother Church , and one of its mid-Victorian Churchwardens , including notes on how to start tracing a Family Tree ’ , it highlights the fortunes of the Mould family and by so doing it provides insights into the character of a place that was overwhelmed by its powerful neighbour 's rapid expansion . |
| 20 | All , all where them boxes are built on Hamilton Road now , that was all our place that was . |
| 21 | The first run was at Stratford-upon-Avon , a place that was used to a different kind of theatre entirely , and ended at what was regarded as the graveyard of intimate revue , Blackpool . |
| 22 | A word gets around the famine is over and after the tragic experience of loosing her family , her three men in her life , her husband and her sons , nobody starts to consider the situation again , she 's alone now in a foreign , a strange land , surely the only sensible thing for her to do would be to return to her own people in Bethlehem , they say news comes through that they 've been a succession of good harvest , well of course there was gon na be good harvest , god had n't forsaken his people , although they had sinned , although they had done what was wrong , he had n't forsaken them , gods not in the business for forsaken people , he 's long suffering , he is faithful , he keeps his covenant from one generation to another that he had n't forgotten the people in Bethlehem and he had sent them through and he had provided good harvests those who had remained in Bethlehem during the famine , they 'd only suffered for a short time , perhaps enough time to bring them to their senses , to bring them back to god , now the suffering was forgotten as they revelled in a plentiful supplying in abundant harvests Naomi on the other hand she knows want now , she 's suffering bereavement , she 's suffering poverty , she 's suffering remorse , there 's nothing for her in Noad , there 's no rest , no joy , no provision , nothing that could meet her needs what a pity she had wasted there those ten wasted those ten years , ten long wasted years in her life now she comes to a decision whatever the cost and there is a cost , she 's gon na have to eat humble pie , how are they gon na receive her when she goes back but she comes to that decision that no matter what it costs her , she will go back to the place that was chosen for her by god , her inheritance of him It always to our cost when we under value our inheritance , do you remember the story of Jacob and Aesop and how Aesop despised his birth right , the inheritance that was his , and Illuminarc and Naomi had done the same , and you and I can do it so easily , leaving , forgetting , not entering in to the inheritance that is ours in Christ , we do it to our own costs , and so she goes through that I 'm gon na go back , I 'm gon na take up my inheritance , I 'm going back home . |
| 23 | Come back with me to the place that was and is yours , be to me as you were before . |
| 24 | While , at the front , the rout had still to reach its climax , behind the scenes , in the various headquarters , a transformation took place that was , by all accounts , miraculous . |
| 25 | Derby , but I mean one of the any aggro , the stall any hassle is in Covent Garden , which is a tourist place that was between two . |
| 26 | The only place that was open was this Fast Eddy 's for lunch and whatever you know , drinks . |
| 27 | so , if I was to walk into the place that was selling these |
| 28 | Psychiatric they have erm not been there were proposals originally from the Conservative group to discontinue that service , but as part of the erm negotiations that took place that was withdrawn , but there is a , I think , a ten thousand pound efficiency cut to be made in the P S W service , so it is not being cut , but erm the sum is being reduced , and it will be self-financing out of efficiency measures . |
| 29 | Now how about there was another place that was due to be closed down . |