Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [verb] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , all these learning activities tend to take place in the abstract , they do not relate to publications you actually produce as part of your job . |
| 2 | Rather , it is a situation in which choice and action do take place , and in which the victim acts under her own perception and judgement . |
| 3 | All these rebuffs by the electorate have taken place during a year in which Major has played the role of world leader : the Gulf war ; the Soviet coup ; the chairmanship of the G7 countries ; the Maastricht treaty on European economic , monetary and political union . |
| 4 | For the eye to work the following minimum perfectly coordinated steps have to take place ( there are many others happening simultaneously , but even a grossly simplified description is enough to point up the problems for Darwinian theory ) . |
| 5 | Even more ambitious attempts to bring trade unionists and community activists together in educational settings have taken place at Northern College . |
| 6 | 12.3 It is acknowledged that several areas of activity/involvement in monitoring violence need to take place concurrently within the Department . |
| 7 | Where a related party controls the enterprise , the existence and nature of the enterprise , together with its name , should be disclosed whether or not any transactions between the parties have taken place . |
| 8 | Rektum will spend the money on reassembling their career in a less pressurised climate : up to now their recordings have only been available on bootleg cassettes , while their live performances have taken place exclusively underground . |
| 9 | Batty , who watched Blackburn 's disappointing goalless home League Cup draw with third division Shrewsbury Tuesday night , added : ‘ I have enjoyed eight good years at Leeds but I can see that Blackburn intend to go places . |
| 10 | Rovers hope to reserve place page 54 . |
| 11 | In addition , independent research shows that tenants in those areas where transfers to housing associations have taken place have been extremely satisfied with the service that they get and the improved repairs . |
| 12 | After all , hundreds of fundamental revolutions involving the whole and almost completely illiterate populace of countries have taken place in the history of civilization . |
| 13 | More critical for our present concern ( which is the need to explain the context-specificity of latent inhibition ) is the fact that latent inhibition can be abolished by a change of context even when the test context is fully familiar , provided that pre-exposure to the test context and the target stimulus have taken place separately . |
| 14 | In part leading to such research , in part stemming from it , radical changes in the public attitude towards such matters have taken place in the last quarter-century . |
| 15 | In some cases where peasant movements have taken place , they are said to be clientelist-based . |
| 16 | Some women have acquired status as heroines ; Rosalba Carriera , Angelica Kauffmann , Rosa Bonheur , Berthe Morisot , Paula Modersohn-Becker and Käthe Kollwitz have found places in a pantheon of major talent from which there ought never to have been any question of their exclusion . |
| 17 | The funerals have taken place of two men found dead in their burnt-out house in Acomb , York a month ago . |
| 18 | Major shifts in population distribution have taken place over the two decades since the 1960s , despite the fact that the national population size is , by the 1980s , almost static . |
| 19 | In my opinion , the only interesting developments in literature in the last ten years have taken place in East Germany . |
| 20 | The major political responses to the economic crisis have taken place under governments of a very different stripe in the two countries : the ‘ Thatcherite ’ Conservatives in Britain , and the Socialists of the PSOE ( Partido Socialist a Obrero Español ) under Felipe González in Spain . |
| 21 | Nearly all transfers have taken place on the initiative either of prospective landlords or of mainly Conservative local authorities . |
| 22 | Er in the context of bulk transfers would you like to comment on the Good Committees conclusions on the bulk transfers of members between schemes and how they operate , and do you think that er there is widespread abuse or do you think er on balance your experience has been that where bulk transfers have taken place , they have taken place responsibly , but I would in that context ask you to comment whether there has been an unreasonable time delay where you have experienced bank bulk transfers between the transfer actually taking place in terms of employees being transferred from an undertaking to another undertaking and the actual transfer of their pension funds . |
| 23 | Clearly , if you are required to take medications , the instructions ‘ first thing in the morning ’ or ‘ with meals ’ will involve some irregularity after a time-zone transition and change of routine have taken place . |
| 24 | And yet the changes have taken place without disturbing in the slightest the unique atmosphere that makes the event so special , a credit to the care , attention and financial assistance that Direct Line have devoted to making Beckenham one of the most pleasant stops on the tennis calendar . |
| 25 | During the past years great changes have taken place in dogs : their health , care , breeding and training . |
| 26 | Since 1969 many changes have taken place . |
| 27 | What changes have taken place in the numbers and positions of the mines ? |
| 28 | In popular belief , adults would take years or generations to adapt to spelling change , although in this decade vaster changes have taken place in everything else . |
| 29 | An area where many changes have taken place concerns the employment of ‘ nominated ’ subcontractors . |
| 30 | Most of the changes have taken place in the past 200 and many in the past 50 years . |