Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] place [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The election of a successor eventually took place in February 1752 , when two candidates presented themselves , the Rev. William Jackson and the Rev. John Chorley Knowles . |
| 2 | Hassan 's visit to Spain eventually took place on Sept. 25-27 , 1989 , when three bilateral accords were signed . |
| 3 | A meeting duly took place on Sept. 18 , at the " peace village " of Panmunjom within the Demilitarized zone at which North Korea put forward its advocacy of a single UN seat in order to avoid continuing the country 's temporary division . |
| 4 | After the abortive attempt to meet in Malawi in June [ see p. 37561 ] , the first direct talks between the Frelimo government and the MNR rebels aimed at ending the 15-year civil war finally took place in Rome on July 8-10 . |
| 5 | It is also worth noting that Corbridge was the site of what must be one of the earliest archaeological excavations ever to take place in Britain , directed by King John in 1201 when he was seeking treasure . |
| 6 | Demonstrations against the poll tax also took place in Manchester and those events were continuously reported on the local radio stations to which prisoners habitually listen . |
| 7 | The quarter finals also took place on Saturday and produced a mixed bag of entertainment . |
| 8 | Other transfers also took place with Stock Accounting being transferred to the Management Accounting Section . |
| 9 | The festival now takes place in July at the Grand Theatre , the famous City Varieties , Leeds Playhouse , Leeds Civic Theatre , and three of the local authority 's community theatres . |
| 10 | At about that time , a meeting allegedly took place between Nicholson , Hofmann and another of Hofmann 's associates , Henry Medlock , at which it was suggested that arsenic acid should be tried as an oxidising agent . |
| 11 | While the panels normally take place in St Augustine 's in many instances it has been judged more beneficial to hold the meetings outside school ( e.g. in the secure wing of St Mary 's List D , at Rosevale school and at Larchgrove Assessment Centre ) . |
| 12 | The annual University Open Day normally takes place in mid-June and is open to all-comers — prospective students of all ages , their relatives and friends ; teachers and careers staff . |
| 13 | Sixteen days before the hand-over of the Vampire , another historic event also took place at Marham — the final Victor major overhauls was commenced by the VMMU , marking the last Handley Page-built aircraft ever to be overhauled by the RAF . |
| 14 | The resulting increase in heavy chemical output mainly took place in Germany although some smaller producers , such as Austria-Hungary and Russia , made their appearance . |
| 15 | The strike reportedly took place in mid-April and involved an eight-hour walk-out by up to 2,000 textile factory workers in Berat , some 70 km south of Tirana , protesting against low wages , although one report also spoke of anti-Hoxha slogans being daubed on the factory walls . |
| 16 | One such development currently taking place at Mitcham concerns an historical file to store personnel events for up to five years . |
| 17 | The massacre really took place on Saint Peter 's Field , but a sharp writer on the radical Manchester Observer linked the outrage to the battle of Waterloo , coming up with the headline ‘ Peterloo ’ . |
| 18 | Occupations always take place on Friday night , so that by the time legal action can be taken , people have already constructed shelters . |
| 19 | Anti-US demonstrations in Tehran drew crowds of 2,000 on Jan. 18 and 5,000 on Jan. 21 ; demonstrations also took place in Orumiyeh , Karaj and Qom . |
| 20 | Most secondary market trading of eurobonds also takes place in London . |
| 21 | And we can predict with certainty the date of local elections because local elections always take place in May . |
| 22 | A statement released by Hassan on Jan. 22 , 1989 , describing as " provocative " a series of legal and administrative measures taken by Spain with regard to the status of the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla , was followed by the postponement of the imminent visit of the Spanish Foreign Minister , Francisco Fernandez Ordonez , to Morocco , the trip finally taking place on Feb. 3 . |
| 23 | Talks subsequently took place in Pristina on Oct. 29 between Serbian and Albanian leaders , Panic , Vance and Owen , resulting in an agreement on the return of Albanian children to classes held in the Albanian language and a minimum agreement on lifting discriminatory laws . |
| 24 | The effectiveness of these centralized procedures is demonstrated in the management of the major programme of changes in curriculum and assessment currently taking place in Scotland . |
| 25 | In London , weddings usually took place on Saturday , so that a day 's work was not lost , and in Middlesbrough , Lady Bell , the wife of the ironmaster , recorded that marriage was ‘ merely an incident in the daily work ’ . |
| 26 | Demonstrations against the military regime also took place on Oct. 5 , the first anniversary of the 1988 referendum in which the electorate had voted overwhelmingly against Pinochet 's continuation in office until 1998 [ see pp. 36344-45 ] . |
| 27 | Talks on currency convertibility also took place between Bulgaria and the Soviet Union during November and December . |
| 28 | In the midst of the dramatic events now taking place in East Germany , the demands for free elections in the GDR are usually linked with assumptions that these will result in a market economy on capitalist lines . |