Example sentences of "[adv] take [noun sg] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Send in the form at any time during the year , but it only takes effect at the beginning of the next tax year , in April . |
2 | The difficulty was that any additional building — of squash-courts , swimming pool , or even classrooms — could by now only take place at the expense of valuable playing-field space . |
3 | ( Visits seem only to take place at the stage of formulating proposals . ) |
4 | The story I have sketched here should be sufficient to indicate that the Copernican Revolution did not take place at the drop of a hat or two from the Leaning Tower of Pisa . |
5 | Delivery of the final members of the class was still taking place at the end of the decade , but the early members had by then settled into their routine of West Coast InterCity push-pull passenger duties with similarlooking new driving van trailers at the opposite end , plus freights from the North to the East Coast ports via the newly electrified North London link . |
6 | Class Administration — activities that usually take place at the start of a lesson — settling pupils , giving general instructions , giving out material . |
7 | The driver would have known it was his first time , did n't take offence at the yelling . |
8 | I 'd just like to add er , that I did n't take offence at the question , I think it was a perfectly qu fair question , it was the , the inference of , of rigging salaries . |
9 | The Senate then took offence at the picture of the grain merchants . |
10 | A meeting then took place at the border on Nov. 8 between German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the then Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki , first on the German side at Frankfurt an der Oder and then across the river at Slubice ( part of pre-1945 Frankfurt ) . |
11 | A similar sequence of events bad taken place at the castle of Mauvezin in Bigorre and a charge that the lieutenant had far exceeded the limits of his jurisdiction was made . |
12 | The IMF has therefore taken fright at the thought that with the economy still in recession , the Government 's tax revenues are at best static , while spending on unemployment benefit and income supplements are rising in line with the unemployment figures , and the deficit on the Chancellor 's own admission is set to reach £37 billion this financial year and £44 billion next . |