Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] place [prep] " in BNC.

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1 At a time when HMI and others are prescribing more consultative and collaborative ways of working in primary schools it is appropriate that some research takes place into the kinds of social and communication skills required of teachers .
2 A fundraising coffee morning for Yorkshire Cancer Research takes place in Northallerton Town Hall on Wednesday from 10am3pm .
3 Deep injection takes place at typical depths of 150mm ( 6in ) and shallow injection at a typical depth of 50mm ( 2in ) .
4 Tomorrow sees the first round of the President 's Trophy takes place at Northern .
5 In addition , tropical deforestation takes place in other parts of South and Central America , Asia ( especially Indonesia , Thailand and Laos ) and Africa .
6 Although some liaison takes place with the school 's link person , the DCSLs tend to perform these functions independently .
7 Although expressed simply , it is assumed that the necessary liaison takes place between the sub-systems of the model on matters of common interest .
8 Early work on a research programme takes place without heed of or in spite of apparent falsifications by observation .
9 A social and sports quiz takes place in the village on March 7 and on March 8 residents from the St John of God Hospital , Scorton , will visit the ship at Hartlepool .
10 The action takes place outside the Haig Building , in Maryland Street , near the Everyman , starting at 5.30pm , writes Ian Hargraves .
11 The action takes place over one disastrous weekend full of rain , fights and missing room service .
12 The action takes place at the Teddington Lock studios in Middlesex on Saturday December 12 at 6–10pm .
13 The bulk of the action takes place in and around an impossibly stylish restaurant , divided into the four zones of car-park , kitchens , dining-room and lavatories .
14 Furthermore , although this action takes place in a local congregation , it is the worship of the whole people of God — the living and the dead , the Church militant and triumphant , for together they constitute the body of Christ .
15 The room areas in this block are fairly quiet and most of the action takes place in the cavern-like bar which provides a cool focus out of the sun and is equipped with pool tables and video machines .
16 The action takes place in a Magnox power station where a guide ‘ struggling with the limited conceptual understanding of the local Mayor and Lady Tiara ’ , starts explaining by analogy .
17 The action takes place in the land of Cartoonia where the beautiful Princess Lady-Bug has been ( wait for it ) kidnapped .
18 Most of the action takes place in a castle bristling with platforms and a variety of reptilian nasties in several stages of dismemberment , from full-bodied dragons to dragon 's heads , spiders and giant fish .
19 Most of the action takes place in San Francisco where the two lucky winners of our great contest will be heading for a sensational seven days .
20 The action takes place in and around Mr. Belville 's estates , first in Bedfordshire , later in Lincolnshire and then in his house in London .
21 The action takes place in tough Dodge City , Kansas during the 1880s , and centres on the lives and experiences of five people : Matt Dillon , the dauntless and fearless United States Marshal ; Kitty Russell , proprietress of the Longbranch Saloon , a woman with a heart of gold who has eyes only for Dillon ; Chester Goode , Matt 's deputy ; Doc Galen Adams , the kindly , dedicated physician ; and Festus Haggen , Matt 's unkempt , hillbilly deputy .
22 This was no mean achievement , bearing in mind that much of the action takes place in the contestants ’ changing room .
23 The action takes place by way of a simple op.amp comparator , IC5 , and transistor TR5 .
24 A day or two later — whenever it suits the Government — the theoretical actual vote takes place on the Floor of the House and , if a Division is called , most hon. Members do not know what they are voting about .
25 The cross-linking paste contains a material capable of donating carbonium ions , and cross-linking takes place at chain ends via a ring opening polymerisation .
26 Much buying takes place under contract and this also tends to limit the search and investigation of alternative suppliers .
27 This suggests that this counting on of steps takes place at an unconscious , neural level .
28 Digestion of the starch into its component glucose units takes place at the luminal surface of the gut epithelial cells , but these glucose units are immediately absorbed by the sodium ion/glucose cotransporter so that they do not contribute to the osmotic activity in the gut lumen .
29 The pre-season meeting for I'Anson/Miller Cup captains , vice-captains and umpires takes place at Wrecclesham pavilion on Thursday , April 23rd ( not 22nd as originally arranged ) .
30 At high temperatures a powerful pumping movement of the mouth and neck takes place in the large monitor lizard Varanus .
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