Example sentences of "a place [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for the moment , the prospect of marriage to a woman he loved , and of life together in a place of exquisite beauty , seemed to offer the stability and direction he never ceased to crave in his personal life . |
| 2 | Here is a place of pure abstraction and perfection , free of earthly contamination . |
| 3 | I missed the joy of knowing , in the back of my mind , that someone wanted me , that sometimes , when we could manage it , I could escape from the world of work , washing and worrying into a place of pure pleasure . |
| 4 | The camp was not a place of easy friendships . |
| 5 | Here , reached only by walking , is the lovely valley of Traligill , a place of alpine flowers and limestone caves and formations , backed by the intimidating peaks of Conival and Ben More Assynt . |
| 6 | It is a place of wide expanses , immense opportunity , widespread corruption , constant violence , sexual laissez-faire and general fantasy , appalling gulfs between rich and poor , between survivors and the condemned . |
| 7 | The house itself consisted of ranges of narrow rooms and a large heated dining room , all very reminiscent of accommodation for pil-grims visiting a place of ritual healing . |
| 8 | I have always found Middle Washfold to be a place of fascinating interest . |
| 9 | The capital that has grown up around the old village of Muscat is a place of broad roads , shops , trees and flowers , imposing offices and graceful buildings in great variety . |
| 10 | A place of rich character and good cheer — encouraged by a vast selection of whiskies and beers . |
| 11 | It was still as gloomy as the day on which she had first seen it and she longed to transform it into a place of splendid elegance . |
| 12 | All these sights and sounds alone would have fascinated Joseph 's young mind , but the murmured talk of deities and devils beyond his imaginings coming from the grave-faced little mandarin pacing at his side established the walled city of palaces lastingly in his mind as a place of deep mystery and enchantment , and by the time Tran Van Hieu delivered him to the governor 's aide outside the Palace of Perfect Concord he was almost ready to believe he would see a live white tiger curled up contentedly with a blue dragon around the emperor 's feet . |
| 13 | a place of amazing contrasts , you simply would n't believe that the landscape and scenery could change so dramatically in such a small distance , from the mountainous green countryside in the north to the fields of rock , ash and lava in the south . |
| 14 | Britain was bound to become a place of paralysing congestion in some parts , of miserable underdevelopment in others , a place of inefficiency , and because of the refusal to make public investment , a place of considerable danger too , for the travelling public and people working in those industries as we have seen so tragically demonstrated . ’ |
| 15 | Later myths make of the Otherworld a place of endless hunting , endless feasting , endless pleasure … a sunny place . |
| 16 | Gardens , said Gertrude Jekyll , ‘ may either be fashioned into a dream of beauty , a place of perfect rest and refreshment of the mind and body — a series of soul-satisfying pictures … or they may be so misused that everything is jarring and displeasing . |
| 17 | Further , Euric 's court was clearly a place of far-reaching importance . |
| 18 | It was a place of great beauty and utter seclusion , lying in a sheltered combe on the eastern flanks of the Quantocks . |
| 19 | This was a place of great beauty and peace . |
| 20 | A steep scramble down an ivy-covered slope leads one into a place of great natural beauty alive with the earth spirit force . |
| 21 | When Kingston was a mere spot on the map , Swine was a place of great importance , with a flourishing pig market . |
| 22 | This is a very large tank indeed , a place of great natural beauty and the centrepiece of Gol-Oya National Park . |
| 23 | This shrine has long been abandoned but it is still a place of great power and of deep significance to both the Elves and the Dark Elves . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Its lushness and tropical variety made it a place of great beauty with winding roads and hair-pin bends giving spectacular views over the jungle . |
| 26 | Dhuoda thought of the palace as a place of great temptations . |
| 27 | If the basis of primary schools was now ( to quote Alec Clegg ) ‘ to help each child to walk into his future with firm steps and bright eyes ’ , the primary school classroom should not be a place dominated by the teacher but a place of mutual trust and co-operation . |
| 28 | Stamford must have been one of the religious and academic Meccas of ancient Albion , situated close to Troy , and a place of international pilgrimage for both mystics and scholars . |
| 29 | Had she locked herself in a place of comparative safety ? |
| 30 | From a place of comparative safety she was able to observe as Joe pushed his way onward , unaware of her move . |