Example sentences of "it a [adj] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or her , ’ she would add scrupulously , being among other things a feminist ) , but in practice this does n't seem to affect her behaviour very noticeably — she seems to have ordinary human feelings , ambitions , desires , to suffer anxieties , frustrations , fears , like anyone else in this imperfect world , and to have a natural inclination to try and make it a better place . |
| 2 | And while his mother may have forgotten Dublin and his father , who had given his life to make it a better place for his children to live in , Patrick had not . |
| 3 | On the contrary , the miners ' wives seemed desperate to keep the spirit that had seen them through the long months , the solidarity and friendship and , above all , the feeling that together they could do something to change the world and make it a better place , not only for themselves , but for all those suffering injustice . |
| 4 | The historical process of transforming the world , making it a better place , recovering a pre-lapsarian global Eden in its pristine simplicity , will end up with people selling it to each other by the dollar , pound or yen . |
| 5 | to all they meet , thus making it a friendly place in which to live . |
| 6 | What features of the city plan make it a pleasant place for outdoor recreation ? |
| 7 | AT1 : ‘ Making it a pleasant place ; Art is pleasant . |
| 8 | That allegory is complex , but seems mainly concerned with the way in which Frankenstein , standing for science in general , wishes to remould the world for the better , and instead leaves it a worse place than he finds it . |
| 9 | Because I see it is of fundamental importance to achieving the environmental objectives for the new settlement and making it a decent place to live . |
| 10 | It was n't suitable for bacon , butter , Cos it a hot place you see , and there was no room for putting any fridges or any Well I did have an ice-cream fridge there . |
| 11 | The writer in us has to know that we are making it a priority , that we are prepared to let other obligations go in order to play with it , nourish it , accord it a central place in our lives . |
| 12 | You know birds of prey ca n't fly over water so Israel 's part of a kind of funnel for them which makes it a great place to do bird counts . |
| 13 | ‘ Suits me , ’ I said , ‘ but is it a good place to dig your trench under a tree ? ’ |
| 14 | Is it a good place to live ? |
| 15 | Cape Wrath is a good place to visit , but many a genteel tourist will think it a good place to leave . |
| 16 | ‘ Which would make it a good place to try to get in . ’ |
| 17 | Is it a good place to work do you like it ? |
| 18 | Stephen thought it a curious place to leave one 's car , blocking , or partly blocking , the northbound roadway , while taking it a farther ten yards on would have enabled its driver to pull in onto the bridlepath that traversed the Vale as far as the Reeve 's way . |
| 19 | Is it a nice place ? |
| 20 | In the last months of 1989 the people of Central and Eastern Europe take it upon themselves to address the future and make it a different place to be in . |
| 21 | ‘ His underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place , ’ explains Charles Handy , who picked Gould out from a handful of students at the London Business School ‘ because he stood out in a group of people as by far the most interesting , and that was because he was determined to have control over his life ’ . |
| 22 | Philip Gould ( right ) : his underlying motive is that he wants to change the world , not so he can manage it , but so that he can make it a different place . |
| 23 | Roth got to know Bellow in Chicago , where Roth worked as a university teacher , finding it a lively place . |
| 24 | Was it a busy place when you went there ? |
| 25 | What was life like here back in forty three , forty four , was it a depressing place to be ? |
| 26 | There can be little doubt that the survey since its modern inception has had a major impact on social research , and any history of social research has to award it a salient place . |
| 27 | Right come the morning arrived and and somebody else I ca n't remember who though , and there we were all ready to go and were walking with the press into the massive great shed where they roll the paper and make it a massive place the size of a couple of football pitches , we were just going in the door and somebody said to me they 're no gon na be using their flash guns are they ? |
| 28 | Its varied character , bird life and rich ground flora , including wild daffodils , make it an enchanting place . |
| 29 | She had made it an attractive place , beautifully decorated with light paint , and furnished with old pieces picked up at auctions with taste and considerable knowledge of antiques . |
| 30 | There are some special features about the Klasies River Mouth site , which this book draws attention to , that give it an important place on maps of the prehistoric world . |