Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [vb past] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | The election of a successor eventually took place in February 1752 , when two candidates presented themselves , the Rev. William Jackson and the Rev. John Chorley Knowles . |
| 2 | The hand-over of those objects only took place after Iraq had lodged a complaint with the United Nations . |
| 3 | Handover of the building only took place a couple of days earlier so many hands had made it possible for Mass to be celebrated in a beautiful setting . |
| 4 | Coleridge lived in London , and never returned to the North of England , so that meetings only took place on rare occasions . |
| 5 | Leonora Carrington , Leonor Fini and Meret Oppenehiem are amongst the many whose development as serious artists only took place outside Surrealism . |
| 6 | The fights apparently took place every Sunday morning in a Muslim cemetery in Old Delhi : ‘ Bahot acha event hai , ’ said Balvinder . |
| 7 | No less culpable was Artemesia 's father , ’ The trial only took place because Artemesia 's father , Aratsio , considered the rape a violation of one of his household objects which was now devalued.This was the only reason Tassi was taken to court , this and the fact that he stole some of Aratsio 's paintings . ’ |
| 8 | The blood gets washed away in the morning so there 's no evidence to suggest a crime ever took place . |
| 9 | Cases involving taxi drivers usually took place at night in remote areas ; it was an easy form of attack . |
| 10 | Other more ambitious walks also took place that winter . |
| 11 | In the United States , a similar shift from credit-rationing to price-rationing also took place between the seventies and eighties . |
| 12 | That was done and completion actually took place is pleaded as the twenty second of November , the er defendants admit completion took place on or about the twenty fifth of November . |
| 13 | Last Friday 's shambles , when Joyce Gould effectively re-wrote the leadership contest nomination rules to try to ensure that a leadership contest actually took place , was merely the nadir of a process that has seen the people 's party acting according to the slogan of ‘ all power to the apparatchiks ’ , and losing its soul , its sense of purpose , much of its membership — and the general election — along the way . |
| 14 | Hassan 's visit to Spain eventually took place on Sept. 25-27 , 1989 , when three bilateral accords were signed . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | King John had not been invited because he was under sentence of excommunication — he did not , therefore , legally exist — but when the council finally took place five proctors represented the king of England , three of whom were clerics , the archbishop of Bordeaux , the archbishop of Dublin and the king 's chancellor , Richard Marsh , and two laymen , John Marshal and Geoffrey Lutterel . |
| 17 | Within marriage , in Gorer 's group , the most frequent rate of intercourse — the number of times within a given period in which intercourse generally took place — was once or twice a week , in about a third of the marriages concerned . |
| 18 | ( An interesting confluence also took place between the development of classical music , which by now had moved away from tonality by vastly enlarging its range , and the coloured musicians ' microtonality . ) |
| 19 | It was here that some of the early meetings of Coleridge and Wordsworth probably took place |
| 20 | This marriage probably took place in 1290 or 1291 . |
| 21 | but changes in the ownership and control of companies also took place between these dates , sometimes on virtually the same scale and certainly with the same consequences for programme contents . |
| 22 | The mining never took place . |
| 23 | The campaign never took place , however , and Edward did not try to revive this method of payment for those who served in the army which was defeated at Bannockburn . |
| 24 | In reality , he was a hostage ; the marriage never took place . |
| 25 | A meeting duly took place on Sept. 18 , at the " peace village " of Panmunjom within the Demilitarized zone at which North Korea put forward its advocacy of a single UN seat in order to avoid continuing the country 's temporary division . |
| 26 | After the abortive attempt to meet in Malawi in June [ see p. 37561 ] , the first direct talks between the Frelimo government and the MNR rebels aimed at ending the 15-year civil war finally took place in Rome on July 8-10 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Demonstrations against the poll tax also took place in Manchester and those events were continuously reported on the local radio stations to which prisoners habitually listen . |
| 29 | The quarter finals also took place on Saturday and produced a mixed bag of entertainment . |
| 30 | Other transfers also took place with Stock Accounting being transferred to the Management Accounting Section . |