Example sentences of "it [was/were] an [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | They think that it was an enclosed place , a cupboard , or under floorboards . |
| 2 | It was an intriguing place , full of photos of early explorers and of Roald Amundsen , who left Tromsø for his Arctic nemesis . |
| 3 | To Erlich , it was an idiotic place to meet . |
| 4 | It was an eerie place , full of strange sounds and dank smells and things too frightful for a small boy to contemplate . |
| 5 | It was an awful place : dreary , badly furnished and he was n't as clean as he 'd been in hospital — food all down his clothes and he had n't shaved , he really looked unkempt . |
| 6 | It was an ideal place to hide away . |
| 7 | It was an alien place to us city-dwellers , and both their uniform style and their culture was despised . |
| 8 | Angel explained that it was an interesting place which belonged to the ancient family of the d'Urbervilles . |
| 9 | It was an idyllic place to grow up , as there was an enormous garden and a real jungle of bamboo beyond the vegetables . |
| 10 | It was an isolated place exposed to every sand-carrying wind . |