Example sentences of "[vb past] place [prep] the [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But also the party system itself is credited by MacPherson as being chiefly responsible for the preservation of the institution of private property and the market mechanism , notwithstanding the extension of the franchise which took place during the nineteenth century . |
| 2 | The patronal festival of the parish church of St Peter of Tankersley should be the 29th June , but Tankersley Feast always took place during the second week of July . |
| 3 | His funeral took place during the First Test at Trent Bridge , with South Africa the tourists : play was halted as a tribute to the man whose valet helped him to contrive county cricket 's most amazing victory . |
| 4 | Major expansions took place over the next decade and in 1949 the factory started making staple fibre , which soon overtook filament yarn as the principal rayon product . |
| 5 | The Bramham Three Day Event took place for the first time in 1974 . |
| 6 | The prestigious event , at which leading scientists discuss global environment , took place for the first time this year , in Rio de Janeiro . |
| 7 | The next sustained discussion of nationality issues in fact took place at the 19th Party Conference in the summer of 1988 . |
| 8 | Well , the figures are there , it 's , it 's following the , the very substantial debate that took place at the last County Council meeting , on the issue of earnings within Shropshire , it 's to give the Committee a bit more detailed information about the position , and , and particularly I think , the position about female earnings in the County er , where we 're , we 're really at the bottom of , of the U K lists . |
| 9 | ( Luke : Luke records that the forecast of Peter 's denial took place at the Last Supper itself . |
| 10 | This is a delayed report on a one day conference that took place on the 27th April 1991 at the Gateway Centre , Shrewsbury . |
| 11 | Fortunately it was saved , the fishermen giving a guarantee against financial loss , and the ceremony took place on the 27th July . |
| 12 | The first of these would imply that Scaevola regarded the trust clause as ineffective ; the second that it was effective but limited to legal events which took place before the first will . |
| 13 | Coal-tar technology could not cope with the huge expansion in the chemical industry that took place after the Second World War . |
| 14 | In Latin America this occurred during the great wave of nationalizations which took place after the Second World War and involved dislocation from which some of the railways have never recovered . |
| 15 | There is a plaque on the wall of an abbey near the Hague which records a strange event that took place in the thirteenth century : |
| 16 | The last mass execution of political prisoners took place in the second half of 1988 , when at least 2500 political prisoners were executed in prisons throughout Iran . |
| 17 | A massive growth in management education took place in the second half of the 1960s , both in the further education and the university sectors . |
| 18 | Further modifications and addenda took place in the first half of the twentieth century . |
| 19 | The first major privatization debate ( as we would now call it ) in this country took place in the first decade of this century . |
| 20 | The work mostly took place in the first year base , which was described as : " a large hall and four small rooms each capable of taking a group of twenty . |
| 21 | Anindita Balslev has recently drawn attention to the subtlety of many of the Hindu philosophical arguments , for example that concerning the perceptibility of time which took place in the eleventh century . |
| 22 | The last hunt took place in the ninth century BC , after which the ivory trade was resumed with the inevitable result . |
| 23 | Neither of these proposals was accepted by the men who , both in December 1909 and May 1910 , voted by two-thirds majorities to reject them.46 The talks remained in deadlock through the summer of 1910 , but following energetic efforts by the compositors and the unions representing kindred trades , pressure was mounting for a confrontation , which took place in the last weeks of the summer |
| 24 | Winkelmann , and thus Kauffman , were part of the ‘ invention ’ of the Greeks as the ancestors of western art , an invention which Martin Bernal has shown took place in the 18th century by displacing the existing stories of art — that Greek culture grew out of the Egyptian , African and Semitic cultures of the Mediterranean world — and producing what he calls the ‘ Aryan ’ and highly racist version of that history which denied the impact of Africa and the Semitic ( Phoenicians in particular ) peoples in order to redefine the Greeks as symbols of a specifically white and anti-semitic Europe . |
| 25 | Finally , important changes took place in the eighteenth century in the means by which armies were controlled and maintained by the governments for which they fought . |
| 26 | It is an example based on an interchange that actually took place in the seventeenth century between Galileo and an Aristotelian adversary . |