Example sentences of "[adv] a [adj] place " in BNC.
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1 | Now that she had to leave it , the cellar was suddenly a friendly place . |
2 | I hope that my new home will be very much a friendly place for others . |
3 | One of the players whose future is assured is 18-year-old Jamie Pollock , who is set to return to the side tonight after struggling to hold down a regular place . |
4 | In fact , they have so much power behind that they find going downhill awkward , and sometimes , in flight down a steep place , they may actually go head over heels . |
5 | The Andes is obviously a good place to go looking for an eruption of an andesite lava , but one would be extremely lucky to find one , because although there are numerous ‘ active ’ volcanoes along the Andean chain , andesite eruptions are really rather rare events compared to basaltic ones . |
6 | This house is obviously a perfect place for them to both recover their strength and be reunited with the twins , whom they 've missed so much . ’ |
7 | This is obviously a terrible place to be caught in bad weather or poorly acclimatised . |
8 | Sgt Geoff Williams , head of Chester 's Special Initiative Squad , said : ‘ It is obviously a sensitive place and we acted as soon as we could to close it . |
9 | Sgt Geoff Williams , head of Chester 's Special Initiative Squad , who believes the parlour was open for three days , said : ‘ It is obviously a sensitive place and we acted as soon as we could to close it . |
10 | The film as film , as ‘ text ’ , as visual artefact , takes up only a small place amidst this kaleidoscope of angles — and I have n't even touched on the economic aspects of production and reception , such as box office pressures , state subsidies , distribution and exhibition . |
11 | The Incas banished the two great causes of popular disaffection : poverty and idleness , and they left only a small place for ambition and greed . ’ |
12 | It was only a small place , not many deliveries . |
13 | Man falling off a bike it 's only a small place is n't it ? |
14 | We 've chosen Boppard as the base for our Rhine Fly-Drive holidays because it 's not only a great place to visit in its own right , but because its central location makes it an ideal spot from which to explore the mighty Rhine . |
15 | Oh she says , you would n't know where it was , she said , it 's only a little place she said , Skipton . |
16 | And here was only a human place . |
17 | The home kitchen is no longer a comforting place of continuous humming activity and bubbling stockpots ; it is far more likely to be the scene of short-term frantic effort . |
18 | Palestine at the advent of the Christian era is no longer a nebulous place belonging more to myth than to history . |
19 | hurly-burly there , it 's just a terrible place ! |
20 | Just a simple place , somewhere … somewhere far from here ! ’ |
21 | Lepine had applied to the Polytechnique school of Engineering in 1986 , but was offered just a conditional place pending the completion of a chemistry course . |
22 | ‘ It was just a normal place to grow up in . |
23 | And it was just a bad place to produce any magazine . |
24 | its just a naff place |
25 | For Bury was an Army Town ; not like Aldershot or Pirbright : just a modest place which had , at one point in its life , slowly bled to death from the loss of its young men in the First World War . |
26 | I wish I could buy us a house — just a little place , big enough for you and me , where we could be all by ourselves . ’ |
27 | Yes , just a little place and that 's where Mr started in that one and then he moved into there when that went empty . |
28 | A rainy-afternoon refuge for the children or just a wonderful place to relax — whatever the weather ! |
29 | Not a great place to spend five or six hours if an early start is required , but it was Christmas and we were in celebratory mood . |
30 | Then you have to say that , of course , the world is not a rational place . |