Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | s s several decades apart , had broken this about the same place you see . |
| 2 | The committee has also recommended an increase in the proportion of overseas students from 5.0% to 7.5% , which implies that barely half of the extra places will be available to local applicants . |
| 3 | I took his word for it and we left , glad to be free of the ghastly place . |
| 4 | Children 's Corner is full of treasures , promises younger spectators the magic of live story-telling and offers adults a return to some of the enchanted places of childhood . |
| 5 | The Flour Advisory Bureau , in conjunction with the Forest Service of Northern Ireland , has produced this guide to some of the best places for a picnic in the forest and woodlands of Northern Ireland . |
| 6 | Topaz thought Almack 's rather dull after some of the splendid places she had visited . |
| 7 | I 'd have liked to see some of the famous places , like Rome and Paris and Moscow and South Sea islands and Jamaica and New York . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , most of the streets which have been sectioned were of substantial construction , in some of the wetter places being provided with a substructure of timber piles or a corduroy ; otherwise local material such as Kentish rag , crushed flints or chalk or gravel were used . |
| 9 | He also , through his sister , had the ‘ in ’ to some of the posher places in town , way ahead of Nicholson 's current social station , which was still restricted to the cheap red-wine class . |
| 10 | And because the Baronnies are full of deep valleys , the prospect keeps changing from near to far , with enormous views to the south when you are in some of the high places . |
| 11 | Some ‘ buses still serve some of the same places , but these are just part of the normal service . |
| 12 | Some of the notorious places for accidents included roundabouts on Northgate , Bondgate , Parkgate and North Road , he added . |
| 13 | There is no way the non-established denominations can be expected to make a comparable contribution , and the Government must therefore take a larger role in providing some mechanism for preserving some of the notable places of worship which , as well as being delightful buildings , are an important testimony to our religious and social history . |
| 14 | Also , the wild asses from northern Africa survive in some of the hottest places on earth and their bodies are stubbornly stripeless . |
| 15 | I met him at his son 's flat in north London — a somewhat incongruous setting for a man who 's spent so much of his time in some of the wildest places in the world . |
| 16 | Some of the loveliest places in East Lindsey are best enjoyed on foot . |
| 17 | If they were smart enough to get bored , they would n't be doing a job like this in the first place . |
| 18 | It 's the Principle that got us started on all this in the first place , remember . |
| 19 | For clearly , if ever he trusted to this in the first place , he had come without any weapon . ’ |
| 20 | Fran walked with him to the door , wishing that she had never agreed to this in the first place . |
| 21 | Much more important is whether the bid was sensible in the first place . |
| 22 | Like other theories of visual object recognition and word recognition , it concentrates on the processes which allow us to access already learned information , rather than enquiring how such information becomes stored in the first place . |
| 23 | The throughswing position can give you useful clues about what went wrong in the first place . |
| 24 | All I can think is , I was wrong in the first place . |
| 25 | I was wrong in the first place . |
| 26 | I was wrong in the first place . ’ |
| 27 | There are already , within any company , enough people with egg on their faces who will argue that one more mighty heave will get us there , but it takes , I think , more courage to be prepared to acknowledge that we were wrong in the first place . |
| 28 | We allow ourselves a little bit more time to get the design right cos the reason we got it wrong in the first place was because it was a quick spend project and nobody er had time to do it properly . |
| 29 | Look here — you 've done wrong twice over : what you said was wrong in the first place ; but then you failed to carry out your promise ! |
| 30 | That 's wrong in the first place . |