Example sentences of "[pron] be the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hundreds more are in our prisons , which are the wrong place for such people . |
| 2 | I had been asked to teach a course of lectures at the Teachers ’ College , which is the only place in NZ to run a speech therapy course ( run jointly with the university ) ; so I was staying on for an extra 4 weeks , while the others ( except Ned , who was also staying in Christchurch with his job ) headed for Auckland to fly home . |
| 3 | It was still my task to fight for the present , although that task was becoming less appropriate daily , and to maintain the status quo which I had made for myself , and which was the only place where I belonged . |
| 4 | Kate told herself as the Porsche leapt forward as if pleased to be released from this rather unfashionable and cheap part of London which was the only place she could afford to live in a small flat by herself . |
| 5 | Well he does n't bother to mention that the king also had an official welcome at Carfax , which was the normal place , what was known as the Penniless Bench , which was at the end of St Martin 's Church , only the of that remains at the moment , now , erm and then was presented with the traditional gift of gloves by the mayor , and the not very generous sum of £520 , and just about the same time , Alderman Nixon and 12 others who agreed with him disappeared smartly from Oxford , and were n't to be seen for the rest of the war . |
| 6 | The Home itself is the first place to start getting people active , and there are all kinds of things which can be done which only need a bit of imagination and common sense rather than expense . |
| 7 | But you have come , I am told , became we are the first place on earth to get the dawn . |
| 8 | But there 's the bloody place and on a Friday night I thought ooh bloody . |
| 9 | There 's the perfect place at the Manor House where the front and back drawing-rooms meet with curtains . |
| 10 | but Asda there was the last place to have , we got er two dozen box from |
| 11 | But at home there was the secure place in the family business and , important among the priorities of a 22-year-old , the dreamy days on the Belfast Lough with the Royal Ulster Y.C. , or the lazy days on the Royal Belfast G.C. fairways . |
| 12 | ‘ Most of us use the booths at one time or another , and they are the obvious place to go if you need a picture for your identity card . ’ |
| 13 | It 's the perfect place , my dear . ’ |
| 14 | I mean eventually of course if somebody is dissatisfied , and they do n't believe that they 're getting er what they want , then they may well end up speaking to me , or writing to me , but er it 's the first place to start is with the individual service . |
| 15 | He knows it 's the first place they 'll look . ’ |
| 16 | It 's the only place you can get a bit of hokey-pokey , sizzling by day and guzzling by night , talk about dolce vita ! when you get your splints off come over for a week . |
| 17 | This place is nowhere for you but it 's the only place you can exist . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's the only place to be . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It 's funny , ’ she said , ‘ but it 's the only place I feel I 'd like to stay . |
| 20 | I love gigging in the South although , oddly , it 's the only place we 've ever received death threats . |
| 21 | " It 's the only place I 'll be , 'cept here , and there 's no one round about these parts who 'd want me . " |
| 22 | " It 's the only place he would go . |
| 23 | We were in bed — probably the worst place , but when you 've got three kids it 's the only place you can talk . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's the only place he 's ever been outside this country . |
| 25 | Andrew Smith says Oxford is probably no different to anywhere else , but it 's the only place monitoring the code . |
| 26 | It 's the only place where I can find peace . |
| 27 | Yeah it 's the nearest place really . |
| 28 | It 's the one place I can be sure you 'll be perfectly safe . ’ |
| 29 | But the fact remains that I retreated to Gullholm because it 's the one place in my world free of the entire sex . ’ |
| 30 | But I felt guilty about her being in a Home … she just had to go in in the end — and I know it 's the best place , it 's safe and she has company all the time … ’ |