Example sentences of "place [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But from those earliest days , she had n't believed in the Church at all ; not one scrap , not one iota , and this was why she 'd been so surprised to discover herself in such a place only the previous morning . |
| 2 | If you stay in the same place then the whole process of sexual reproduction means that indeed there are uniform populations which are hybridizing with one another and then barriers to other hybridizing population , but not if you move about . |
| 3 | Further , to argue , as Gandhi does , that progress towards ahi sā must have taken place otherwise the human race would have become extinct by now , in the same way as lower species of animal life have become extinct , is to ignore the principle of natural selection , and the fact that more sophisticated weapons of hi sā are now at man 's disposal making the possibility of his self-destruction and extinction more real today than at any time in the past . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | Fiona : And the place where the Lost Boys had their tree-house was a bit babyish too . |
| 10 | Sunset and sunrise are to be taken at the place where the alleged offences were committed . |
| 11 | This was a place where the Soviet world was a thing of books and newspapers and television shows and magazines — not tangible . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is the place where the new recruit is most likely to learn about the ‘ typical ’ and ‘ difficult ’ kinds of cases . |
| 14 | It 's a very beautiful place where the friendly feel of the climbs reflects the gentle scenery . |
| 15 | See , the very place where the mighty throng and the Empress Judith Had been standing , and with them the boy Charles himself ! |
| 16 | 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 : |
| 17 | Long after the hearings , even after the trials , ‘ the White House basement ’ remained the place where the awful miasma had started . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Well into the seventeenth century , the Alps were seen as a place where the only activity was shovelling snow from the 45° pastures . |
| 20 | It is very unusual to find a tone-unit boundary at a place where the only grammatical boundary is between words . |
| 21 | Generally speaking , a subduction zone is the place where the major business of the earth 's surface is done . |
| 22 | This must be the place where the mysterious man was hiding ! |
| 23 | 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 … |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Parliament must be the primary place where the conflicting claims and interests of society can be articulated and resolved . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | The only place where the charting section is weak is in the rotation of 3D graphs , where you have to use scroll bars . |
| 30 | It also has one sad literary connection with England , as the place where the excellent late-Victorian novelist George Gigging died . |