Example sentences of "[pron] is the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Its future depends on continually convincing these companies , and others yet to take the plunge , that it is the best place in South-East Asia from which to do business . |
| 4 | It is the best place for handmade pumps . ’ |
| 5 | I do not think that any one of us expects our children to walk out of the place ‘ normal ’ , but we do know that it is the best place in the world for them to achieve their fullest potential . |
| 6 | In a very real way , I have found , it is the only place where things have been really understood for the first time . |
| 7 | The Blaiken has a welcoming bar and a separate dining room for house guests and it is the only place Scheffau where you 'll be able to get real English tea ! |
| 8 | The trouble with Oxford , as Bernard Shaw has written , is that it is the only place where you can both have your cake and eat it . |
| 9 | It is the only place on Moila that is to let . |
| 10 | Even now , disabled people find themselves in hospital because it is the only place that will look after them and for that reason alone . |
| 11 | In a way the proposal that the state of the universe is determined by a sum over only nonsingular histories is like the drunk looking for his key under the lamp-post : It may not be where he lost it , but it is the only place where he might find it . |
| 12 | One is no longer at home anywhere , so in the end one longs to be back where one can somehow be at home because it is the only place where one would wish to be at home : and that is the world of Greece ! " |
| 13 | It is the nicest place in the house , thirty feet above the garden . |
| 14 | It is the one place where I can remain private and uninterrupted . |
| 15 | Desirable , that is , only to seekers after adventure ; to the majority of others it is the last place on earth deserving a visit . |
| 16 | It is the last place they want to be . |
| 17 | ‘ It is the last place I would have chosen to bring my sister , ’ he grated . |
| 18 | It is the oldest place of worship in Madeira and has recently been converted into a small museum . |
| 19 | This retreat into the safety of headquarters with its separation from reality is the route for these ‘ bastards with no teeth ’ ; it is the rightful place for those ‘ nine-til-five administrators who turn up when real polises have been up and at it for hours , and then ask their daft questions because of their lack of practical experience ’ . |
| 20 | This is called the Hall of Secrets but it is the wrong place to whisper them . |
| 21 | ‘ Where they have dug the hole is a main junction , they say it is the worst place for the leak , where the water is separated . |
| 22 | It is the ideal place to spend a leisurely holiday . |
| 23 | It is the ideal place to forget the worries of the 20th century and step back in time , and the apartments offered at the Castel Cortevecchio all provide a relaxed and comfortable holiday base in the heart of this unspoilt , unhurried countryside . |