Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] place [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Held , allowing the appeal , that on its true construction section 87 of the Act of 1985 required that the successor to a tenancy should have resided with the tenant during the period of 12 months ending with the tenant 's death , but did not require the residence to have taken place for the whole of that period in the premises to which succession was claimed ; and that , accordingly , the defendant was entitled to succeed to his deceased brother 's tenancy ( post , pp. 133B–E , 135C–F ) .
2 This protection for the local authority does not require the residence to have taken place for the whole 12 months in the house to which succession is claimed .
3 These final exchanges were to have taken place at the border town of Mundhiriya from March 14 , but did not in the event go ahead as scheduled .
4 The incident is believed to have taken place at the home of Mr Dearlove 's estranged wife Janet .
5 A similar rite seems to have taken place at the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus .
6 Among the many meetings that took place that night , one of the most significant seems to have taken place at the house of a Foreign Office Minister , Tristan Garel-Jones .
7 And , further , how does it appear that the testator 's implied request , if it could be implied , or his promise , if that promise alone would suffice , or both together , were intended to cause the marriage , or did cause it , so that the marriage can be said to have taken place at the testator 's request , or , in other words , in consequence of that request ?
8 The alleged attacks were said to have taken place at the family 's home in Flint .
9 On March 22-23 protest meetings and marches condemning the murder were reported to have taken place across the country , with one soldier being reported killed and several people wounded in the Policarpa slum district of Bogotá .
10 They were told nothing else ; only later they heard the abuse was supposed to have taken place outside the family .
11 It is then asked that the witnesses be examined either in accordance with a given list of questions , which will have been drafted by the applicant party , or regarding certain matters summarised in the letter of request itself ; an example might be ‘ a road traffic accident believed to have taken place in the sight of the witness at such-and-such a place and time ’ .
12 The most ruthless campaigns against northern peoples who refused to submit appear to have taken place in the east — perhaps because there the proximity of the Okhotsk coast , and the mountainous terrain , left fewer possibilities open for escape from the Russian soldiers .
13 Most of the steps leading to the modern conifers seem to have taken place by the end of the Palaeozoic ; no other group of organisms of such antiquity has retained such an unbroken hold over vast areas of the earth as the conifers .
14 For example , Loucks , Dodge & galloway ( 1984 ) demonstrated feldspar dissolution to have taken place after the formation of quartz overgrowth cements in some US Gulf Coast Lower Tertiary sandstones , whereas , in similar sandstones , Siebert , Moucure & lahann ( 1984 ) showed feldspar dissolution occurred after calcite cementation but before hydrocarbon maturation and migration .
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