Example sentences of "[noun] it [vb past] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm I can not see , and this is where I part company with Peter Williamson to some extent , I can not see any reason why his data should be regarded as showing that when the sudden change did take place it took place for any reason other than natural selection within a single population . |
| 2 | This involved combining the current running costs of the plant with the cost of capital investment at the time it took place , many years before . |
| 3 | At least , in those extraordinary days between Hiroshima and the declaration of Vietnamese independence , hardly anyone , except the French garrison who were still imprisoned , first by the Japanese and then by the Vietminh , could be found to contradict this assumption of power and by the time it took place , or at least was claimed , another thread in the French connection had been broken . |
| 4 | The weekly ritual slaughter was too gory a ceremony for her to watch , though every time it took place she was reminded of how it always fascinated her daughters when they were children . |
| 5 | The Court of Appeal doubted the validity of trespass ab initio , as it meant that lawful acts could be made unlawful by subsequent events and the lawfulness of an act should be judged at the time it took place . |