Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] the place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Factory greyness had dulled the senses and while the club was still the place to be , it certainly was n't the place to play . |
| 2 | This imbalance is unfortunate since as Pat Rogers observes : ‘ … there were more first-rate women poets than novelists in the period , and … poetry was still the place where ideas were growing most vigorously . |
| 3 | One has always to bear in mind that for very many people in early-modern England — in the towns as much as in the countryside — the home was also the place of work . |
| 4 | Time and time again families were identified with a particular farm or tenement , a link that was all the stronger because the home was also the place of work , the spot where an individual spent most of his time . |
| 5 | It 's not only the alcohol that 's suffered from self-enforced cutbacks : the Franks ( ironically enough ) used to be a Martini band — any gig , any town , any night , they 'd pack their guitars and socks and head off into the Tranzophobic sunset , until exhaustion fully reared its head and the heart decided that home was definitely the place to be . |
| 6 | He thought he 'd once heard someone saying that about her , but it now seemed that reason was n't the right one : the beach was hardly the place to catch a glimpse of Dr Greenslade , with his black bag and his stethoscope , which he sometimes wore round his neck on the street . |
| 7 | The distant race-meeting was exactly the place where Andrew would most wish to be . |