Example sentences of "a [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The orphanage is a hateful place , ’ she said . |
| 2 | I think it would be a shame to destroy such a historic place . |
| 3 | The trick is to keep as many buttercups as you can while giving people a pleasant place to live in . |
| 4 | Let's hope it 's still a pleasant place when we leave it . ’ |
| 5 | Let's hope it 's still a pleasant place when we leave it . ’ |
| 6 | Official Hungary is not a pleasant place to live in , say the statisticians : GDP fell by 5% in 1990 after a decade of near-stagnation . |
| 7 | The Five Gates of Hell by Rupert Thomson ( Penguin , £5.99 ) — Moon Beach sounds like a pleasant place to take a holiday but is the complete reverse . |
| 8 | It was a pleasant place , overlooking the the Thames and Embankment Gardens , spacious and , except for the occasional hooting of the boats , quiet . |
| 9 | What features of the city plan make it a pleasant place for outdoor recreation ? |
| 10 | A pleasant place to live , or would be in summer , but a little bleak and windswept at this time of year . |
| 11 | What was it exactly that made Masailand such a pleasant place for members of the British Colonial Service to be ? |
| 12 | That Nafferton is a pleasant place to live is shown by the rapid sale of new houses , both to local people and those from further afield . |
| 13 | With their glossy green aromatic leaves , two Choisya ternata shrubs either side of the seat make this a pleasant place to sit . |
| 14 | Large roosts were reported elsewhere in the county , but Abbey Park remained a pleasant place . |
| 15 | God 's world was not a pleasant place , he might have said . |
| 16 | We welcome busy people to our home , and we give them a pleasant place to work in . ’ |
| 17 | It was a pleasant place , Blackheath , a shade too respectable for someone into the tablets of the time , and full of kids — unlike Small — waiting to go to university . |
| 18 | Bracken Cottage on a spring evening was a pleasant place , but celebrating alone was a contradiction in terms , she decided , as she took a sip of wine and looked without interest at the food on her plate . |
| 19 | AT1 : ‘ Making it a pleasant place ; Art is pleasant . |
| 20 | It is rewarding to get positive feedback and comments from these people who find the sales centre a pleasant place to visit . |
| 21 | He might have to settle for a reserve place on Thursday . ’ |
| 22 | They were anxious also to find a mooring place for their four-oared ceremonial barge , with a cabin in the stern . |
| 23 | We are a very big institution — over 11,000 full-time equivalent students — but still , I think , a friendly place . |
| 24 | I hope that my new home will be very much a friendly place for others . |
| 25 | Steam on the kitchen window cuts off the railway lines , making the tiny kitchen for once a friendly place . |
| 26 | to all they meet , thus making it a friendly place in which to live . |
| 27 | After many straight miles , the road curves inland to round Applecross Bay , a welcome sight well endowed with trees and , after passing a picnic place , turns into the village of Applecross , a friendly place with no obvious awareness of its extreme isolation from the rest of the world . |
| 28 | Kitsch cottage atmosphere but a friendly place popular for pub snacks . |
| 29 | The centre is a friendly place run by the Williams family and is open all year except December . |
| 30 | Now that she had to leave it , the cellar was suddenly a friendly place . |