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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | This is obviously a terrible place to be caught in bad weather or poorly acclimatised . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Incas banished the two great causes of popular disaffection : poverty and idleness , and they left only a small place for ambition and greed . ’ |
| 10 | It was only a small place , not many deliveries . |
| 11 | Man falling off a bike it 's only a small place is n't it ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Oh she says , you would n't know where it was , she said , it 's only a little place she said , Skipton . |
| 14 | And here was only a human place . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Palestine at the advent of the Christian era is no longer a nebulous place belonging more to myth than to history . |
| 17 | hurly-burly there , it 's just a terrible place ! |
| 18 | Just a simple place , somewhere … somewhere far from here ! ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ It was just a normal place to grow up in . |
| 21 | And it was just a bad place to produce any magazine . |
| 22 | its just a naff place |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Yes , just a little place and that 's where Mr started in that one and then he moved into there when that went empty . |
| 26 | A rainy-afternoon refuge for the children or just a wonderful place to relax — whatever the weather ! |
| 27 | The zoo 's always a good place for a few laughs . |
| 28 | Always a different place . |
| 29 | Malcolm Crosby says Oxford was always a hard place to come and get a result and he wants to make that so again |
| 30 | It was always a favourite place of Mala 's , and I hoped to get a glimpse of her in that enticing felinoid suit , to be sure she was all right . |