Example sentences of "as take [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , while the state attempted to monopolize such discussion as took place — for example when the ‘ neutral ’ forum for discussion at the VEC seminar was turned by the authorities into a reassurance session — this was resisted locally by successful intervention and contestation at the VEC seminar both by an outside speaker and by DUC activists , and by forcing the issue back on the table for discussion at the local authority level . |
| 2 | As absolutism took hold in the seventeenth century , many traditional assemblies of estates fell into abeyance , and the gradual evolution of such an assembly into a modern parliament , as took place in England , was the exception rather than the rule in early modern Europe . |
| 3 | Of course , watching or half-watching a debate is not the same thing as taking part in one , and it might well be argued that level or style of participation does not demand enough of the individual citizen . |
| 4 | Concretely , Erades 's and Wood 's characterization of the bare infinitive structure as evoking the helper as taking part of the work upon himself is too restrictive . |
| 5 | School press officer Adrea Menzies , said : ‘ The school gained a great deal of experience related to the issues of a general election and into voting procedures as well as taking part in a nationwide children 's election . ’ |
| 6 | It can also , in another sense , be regarded as taking advantage of the vulnerability of the recipient of the threat . |
| 7 | We had all gathered for Hamish and Tone 's traditional Ne'erday partyette ; a necessarily quietish affair during which people exchanged tales of drunkenness , broken resolutions and recipes for hangover cures , as well as taking advantage of the opportunity to compare notes regarding blank spots in the memories of any of the assembled penitents . |
| 8 | Like Anne , she saw the current situation as none of her business — and wished not to be seen as taking sides . |
| 9 | He chose schools because they were usually the centre of the village activities and he hoped that the schoolmaster as well as taking care of the books would be likely to encourage both his pupils and their parents to read them . |
| 10 | It sees the practical development of its work as taking place mainly at local level , and to this end encourages the formation of autonomous local groups which can respond to needs in their own area . |
| 11 | The configuration can appear stable , however , when perceived as taking place on the circumference of a circle and viewed in perspective . |
| 12 | Such behaviour is seen as taking place within ‘ the basic unit of society ’ , the family , ‘ which is founded on marriage ’ . |
| 13 | While she concedes the broad outline of the developmental model — a model which proceeds from an egocentric through a societal to a universal perspective — she sees this development as taking place , in the case of women , within a special moral conception . |
| 14 | Similarly , discovery should be considered as taking place here , and not in another country , when interrogatories are served here , even if the necessary information is located in another country . |
| 15 | Creation is described as taking place in six days . |
| 16 | In any case , the certainty one feels is normally misplaced , although there are a few instances when genuinely creative thinking has been documented as taking place during dreams . |
| 17 | Some of the marriages could certainly be described as taking place within the traditional milieu of the skilled working class : thus Flora H. , daughter of a blacksmith , married the son of a cabinet maker ( bride and groom were both compositors ) . |
| 18 | The eighth-century Northumbrian annals in the Historia Regum and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle D ( s.a. 761 ) show that Aethelwald Moll began to reign as king of Northumbria on 5 August 759 , and the battle of Eildon , which lasted from 6–9 August 761 , is described as taking place ‘ at the beginning ’ of his third year . |
| 19 | Diane Miles , marketing manager of Lancôme , identifies the shift as taking place at the level of presentation rather than formulation : ‘ There are very positive signs that consumers are becoming bored and frustrated by claims for anti-ageing creams which are couched in over-technical language . |
| 20 | In practice it is impossible to maintain any rigorous separation between executive power and legislative power — between the power to set down the broad direction of the state and to carry out the laws , and the power to make laws and general rules — and , in Britain , Bagehot saw the fusion as taking place in the Cabinet which he said was a committee of the legislative body chosen by the Commons to be the executive body and rule the nation . |
| 21 | His marriage was treated very briefly ; he recorded it as taking place in 1934 , and the bride as being ‘ at that time newly arrived from New Zealand and as a writer considered highly promising — alas , of how many has this been said ! ’ |
| 22 | The break-up of the marriage was recorded as taking place in 1943 , ‘ due to the pressures and uncertainties of war ’ — as if Gerald had been at the very least a fighter ace or undercover agent . |
| 23 | Since the letting can not be conceived as existing before the event permitted gets under way , to is not used with let , just as it is not used with see because seeing can not be conceived as taking place before the first moment of the event seen . |
| 24 | ‘ Cutaneous injury to tissue and muscle , even when there are no outer marks on the horse , has already been established as taking place from research now underway and further development along this avenue must be explored . ’ |
| 25 | As well as taking kids , eagles also try to flush or knock older goats off ledges . |
| 26 | That can mean only that the common agricultural policy is to be reformed in such a way as to take money from the United Kingdom and give it for cohesion to countries outside . |
| 27 | In practice selectors will use both databases and select bibliographies ( assuming the latter are available ) so as to take advantage of the best features of both . |
| 28 | This allows borrowers more scope to time issues so as to take advantage of temporarily favourable patterns of interest rates such as would permit profitable swaps . |
| 29 | Additional encouragement and training for children might be provided by congregational ‘ creative ’ days , when young and old alike meet together to make music , as well as to take part in other activities . |
| 30 | The author 's preface refers to ‘ the gentleman , who was so kind as to take care of the Publication of it , only to excuse me from appearing ’ . |