Example sentences of "an [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | This aquatic ferris wheel churns the Bay 's waters into a brackish and turbid soup — an inhospitable place for many types of life . |
| 2 | It is an endearing place , indeterminate in the true Bristol fashion : its Gothick garden house once boasted an enclosing frill of classical columns . |
| 3 | I hear voices saying , ‘ Ah , he 's lucky , it 's alright for him , he lives in an historic place . ’ |
| 4 | It is an unbelievable place to spend the summer and young people from all over Europe flock here from April right through to the end of October to enjoy the free and easy life-style and atmosphere that they themselves have created . |
| 5 | It was an awful place : dreary , badly furnished and he was n't as clean as he 'd been in hospital — food all down his clothes and he had n't shaved , he really looked unkempt . |
| 6 | This is an awful place ! |
| 7 | The house was an awful place , Carolyn thought . |
| 8 | ‘ An odd place to choose to sleep . ’ |
| 9 | Bury St Edmunds , according to three people who live there , is an odd place . |
| 10 | Rather an odd place to camp , having to keep your eye on the tides the whole time . ’ |
| 11 | A herd of cattle may seem an odd place to look for the meaning of life but it fits neatly with current American pop- psychology : no doubt these urban liberals have packed copies of Robert Bly 's ‘ Iron Jack ’ in their saddlebags . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , it 's an odd place to sleep . ’ |
| 13 | Everything was rosy at the Red House , which Dante Gabriel Rossetti , Morris 's close friend and mentor described as ‘ more a poem than a house … but an admirable place to live in too , . |
| 14 | I was greatly relieved when he agreed , since although I regard Downing Street as an admirable place , I have never had any admiration for its cuisine . |
| 15 | The songs of birds if listened to with a creative ear , can turn a garden into an enchanted place . |
| 16 | They walked on , thinking of This and That , and by-and-by they came to an enchanted place on the very top of the Forest called Galleons Lap , which is sixty-something trees in a circle ; and Christopher Robin knew that it was enchanted because nobody had ever been able to count whether it was sixty-three or sixty-four , not even when he tied a piece of string round each tree after he had counted it . |
| 17 | These few days with you have been like this country before me here — a new paradise , an enchanted place so rich in itself that it needed nothing else . |
| 18 | An enchanted place of quiet waterways and lacy bridges , of picturesque squares and little shrines , of fountains and statues and vine-shaded courtyards . |
| 19 | The gate opened into a magnificent courtyard paved with huge slabs of stone , an enchanted place of moonlit trees and silvered statuary . |
| 20 | Yeah I mean have they just sort of said okay right as it is that 'll do or are they seriously looking at making this place an inviting place to come to ? |
| 21 | They think that it was an enclosed place , a cupboard , or under floorboards . |
| 22 | EVER since I saw David Bellamy disappearing down a crack in a garden path to demonstrate that we all had our own ‘ personal schooool of evolution ’ close at hand , I have been prepared to concede him an eternal place among the inexorably tenacious . |
| 23 | This is an old place , indeed a Roman place , as is known from an inscription which has been built into a chapel on top of the highest of the surrounding hills , and which is dedicated to a local Romano-Iberic divinity of the name of Herauscorritsehe , which can not have tripped too easily from the pious tongue . |
| 24 | First , after about twelve miles and just after you have driven through the limestone defile of Escot , there is Sarrance , a colourless , silent village these days but an old place of pilgrimage and of literary inspiration . |
| 25 | Baldersdale is an empty place now and all that remains for me are memories , sweet memories . |
| 26 | The new novel , unlike the fictions of Tolkien and Lewis , is stubbornly secular , but with an ear cocked to the supernatural ; it is no more anti-religious , that is to say , than Philip Larkin 's poem ‘ Church Going ’ , which intones sympathetically the values of an empty place where the dead lie buried and where prayer has once been valid . |
| 27 | To be in an empty place . " |
| 28 | I remember one day in the 1940s sitting at a table on the first floor of the Crown in Fleet Street , next to a table where an attractive young woman , then unknown to me , was sitting in front of a plate of smoked salmon and opposite an empty place furnished with another plate of smoked salmon , which must have been ordered in advance . |
| 29 | There was an empty place at the bottom of the table . |
| 30 | He waved Rostov to an empty place at his side , and one of the aides drew Yuan and Alexei off and seated them among younger men . |