Example sentences of "have be a [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main room or ‘ house ’ , where the family gathered and worked and where the fire never went out , would not have been a suitable place for storage . |
| 2 | She recovered — though the royal nursery in Linlithgow can hardly have been a peaceful place , with its occupant combining convalescence with the more normal infant problem of teething ; but she was entirely well by the time Sadler saw her again , in early August . |
| 3 | But Magda ze Schluderpacheru was better than the other madams , the Silver Shuriken could have been a nice place with a little work . |
| 4 | It would have been a good place to hold a torchlight rally . |
| 5 | Memphis , Tennessee must have been a lively place for the city ‘ s policemen in the early 1970s . |
| 6 | There would have been little room to work or store on the gallery , but it could have been a convenient place to display finished work for the approval of the merchants riding round the countryside in search of stock , as the main road passes nearby and upon which the main flow of riders would have travelled . |
| 7 | It would have been a sensible place in which to have encountered a loving creator , but it was a wretched spot for a pale and spindly child to fall victim to the predatory hunger of an Italian prisoner of war with a tobacco tin filled with metal rings made in the camp workshop three miles away across the woods . |
| 8 | It must have been a wonderful place to have a beer in … |
| 9 | It must have been a wonderful place to grow up . ’ |