Example sentences of "it [vb -s] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first category has the greatest potential for ambiguity , for it requires more interpretative work , in that it associates places with types of people . |
| 2 | The visitor to an auction may be caught up in the excitement and drama of the event , but the climate of opinion in which it takes place has been created by scholars and critics as well as businessmen . |
| 3 | The combination is dramatic and somehow unexpected in a senecio , especially as it takes place in autumn when most other border perennials have flowered and then faded . |
| 4 | Different again is the dancing of the bedouin soldiers , at once chaste and erotic — ‘ chaste because it takes place among men , mostly holding one another by the elbow or the forefinger … erotic because it takes place between men , and because it 's performed before the ladies . |
| 5 | Different again is the dancing of the bedouin soldiers , at once chaste and erotic — ‘ chaste because it takes place among men , mostly holding one another by the elbow or the forefinger … erotic because it takes place between men , and because it 's performed before the ladies . |
| 6 | The advantage of a body clock is that it can prepare an animal or plant and enable it to predict a future environmental condition and so be ready for the event when it takes place . |
| 7 | Trade with other former members of Comecon is to be in hard currency , if it takes place at all . |
| 8 | In our case it takes place in the family of Christ 's body , the Church , the location in which the sacramental is normally expressed . |
| 9 | It takes place in the future after a terrible war and is written in the form of the diary of a girl called Anna . |
| 10 | It takes place where an employee 's work disappears , but he is retained and another employee is dismissed instead . |
| 11 | It takes place on the Caribbean island of Silver-store , where pirates murder many of the English colony and a detachment of Marines left to guard them ; the rest are taken prisoner but contrive to escape . |
| 12 | Hoyle writes : ‘ My own recent work has caused me to doubt , not that evolution takes place , but that it takes place according to the usual theory of natural selection operating on randomly generated mutations . |
| 13 | Now , however , the assessment provisions of the 1988 Act ( turned by TGAT into a model for curriculum construction ) actually demand that it takes place . |
| 14 | It seems safest to conclude that this symbiotic relationship is the norm , but that it takes place to varying degrees according to policy , place and circumstance . |
| 15 | It seems that the mode of politics in any situation is governed as much by the actors and interests involved , as by the geographical scale at which it takes place . |
| 16 | Once play activity becomes formalized , directed , structured by rules , and it takes place in a defined space ( ‘ field of play ’ ) , it moves into the related but distinct area of games . |
| 17 | Arranging the interview in an organized fashion , and making sure it takes place in relaxing circumstances , are very important if you are to see the candidates at their best and so be able to make a well-informed decision . |
| 18 | It takes place during the second weekend of the Daily Mail Ideal Home Exhibition , from Thursday 19th to Sunday 22nd March 1992 and we 've got 10 pairs of tickets to give away . |
| 19 | The only criteria of ‘ science ’ we are left with are its ‘ openness ’ and the fact that it takes place ‘ entirely in thought ’ . |
| 20 | The first race was held here in 1519 , and today it takes place once a year , on the third Tuesday of each March . |
| 21 | It takes place at night and might almost be called ordeal by fire . |
| 22 | It takes place in communities , the home , the school , the parish and the locality . |
| 23 | In addition to rule-making , thereby reducing the degree of uncertainty confronting workers and management , it can also be a vehicle for resolving disputes , a power relationship and , where it takes place at enterprise or plant level , it may be regarded as a form of participation for workers or their representatives ( see Chapter 7 ) . |
| 24 | Spoken language interpreting , because it takes place only in one medium ( i.e. sound ) , ensures that two languages can not be mixed directly , and the use of an interlanguage is discouraged from the earliest stages of language learning . |
| 25 | Learning a language is essentially an individual process , but typically it takes place in the social context of the classroom . |
| 26 | Since it takes place ‘ inside ’ it must be related to memory . |
| 27 | The one useful generalisation about war in impoverished Africa is that it takes place where there are not many expensive weapons for soldiers to kill each other with , but where the conditions of organised life are so fragile that its disruption causes lots of civilians to die of famine and disease . |
| 28 | The aside is a piece of direct address to the audience : it takes place simultaneously with the dramatic action , is produced by , and directed towards , that action , yet stands a little outside it . |
| 29 | Firstly , the Forum programme is global in the sense that it takes place in all the regions . |
| 30 | It takes place at the College of Technology in Kevin Street — but it is only open to those already accepted as a trainee or who have some position in a recognised organisation . |