Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] place at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Liz , Alix and Esther all obtained places at the college of their choice , in Cambridge , and there were reunited , to gossip there and elsewhere over subsequent decades of their fortuitous friendship .
3 ( Visits seem only to take place at the stage of formulating proposals . )
4 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 .
5 Class Administration — activities that usually take place at the start of a lesson — settling pupils , giving general instructions , giving out material .
6 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 ) .
7 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 .
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