Example sentences of "place where the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | At the end of the corridor which he describes , before you get to the rubbish , is the place where the young make love . |
| 4 | It was the place where the young shoemaker 's daughter lived . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Fiona : And the place where the Lost Boys had their tree-house was a bit babyish too . |
| 7 | Sunset and sunrise are to be taken at the place where the alleged offences were committed . |
| 8 | This was a place where the Soviet world was a thing of books and newspapers and television shows and magazines — not tangible . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It is the place where the new recruit is most likely to learn about the ‘ typical ’ and ‘ difficult ’ kinds of cases . |
| 11 | It 's a very beautiful place where the friendly feel of the climbs reflects the gentle scenery . |
| 12 | See , the very place where the mighty throng and the Empress Judith Had been standing , and with them the boy Charles himself ! |
| 13 | 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 : |
| 14 | Long after the hearings , even after the trials , ‘ the White House basement ’ remained the place where the awful miasma had started . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Well into the seventeenth century , the Alps were seen as a place where the only activity was shovelling snow from the 45° pastures . |
| 17 | It is very unusual to find a tone-unit boundary at a place where the only grammatical boundary is between words . |
| 18 | Generally speaking , a subduction zone is the place where the major business of the earth 's surface is done . |
| 19 | This must be the place where the mysterious man was hiding ! |
| 20 | 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 … |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Parliament must be the primary place where the conflicting claims and interests of society can be articulated and resolved . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . ’ |
| 26 | The only place where the charting section is weak is in the rotation of 3D graphs , where you have to use scroll bars . |
| 27 | It also has one sad literary connection with England , as the place where the excellent late-Victorian novelist George Gigging died . |
| 28 | He 'd reached the place where the broken branch lay across the ride . |
| 29 | But our God wants His church to be a place where the Holy Spirit is able to increase those three , steadily and thoroughly , and so we can pray with Paul : |
| 30 | Under such a concept the ‘ core ’ is the central base for professional staff who are engaged in the rehabilitation and personal development of individuals living in the homes ; it may also serve as a training base for staff , a research base for the evaluation and monitoring of the service and a place where the residential care staff meet to exchange ideas . |