Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theme of the walk — which was to take place through the streets of St James 's — was ‘ royal London ’ . |
| 2 | One of them was John Stuart Mill who feared , however , that the reform of them which was taking place in the 1840s was being taken as an affair of humanity only , not of justice . |
| 3 | On the one hand , the Church of England had managed to insult and harass its lesbian and gay members ( it is not known how many left in disgust ) , and had helped to justify to the public the upsurge in homophobic discrimination and violence which was taking place at the time . |
| 4 | To try to devise some hidden hand at work here when there is a perfectly good explanation is to ignore the appalling mismanagement of the Chilean economy which was taking place . |
| 5 | More seriously , it is quite unlikely that the actions of any single archbishop could greatly alter the course or speed of the realignment of secular and ecclesiastical power which was taking place at this time . |
| 6 | The objectives were first to counter the rapid growth of trade unionism which was taking place with the acceleration of the industrialisation process . |
| 7 | Following the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth 11 in June 1953 , RAF Marham , the other major RAF Washington base , began preparations for the Coronation Review of the RAF , which was taking place at RAF Odiham the following month . |
| 8 | Marham was to provide all of the Washington aircraft for the review which was taking place on July 15 , 1953 ; a 12-ship formation and four a static display . |
| 9 | For Fabianism , the emergence of democracy which was taking place in the political sphere had to be accompanied by the spread of socialism in the economic sphere . |
| 10 | As far as Gloucester was concerned , it was a recognition of the fact that the north had now emerged as his main sphere of interest , and his surrender of land in East Anglia was to some extent the corollary of the consolidation of his northern interests which was taking place in the same year . |
| 11 | This tension may have caused its failure in the eyes of contemporary readers , but it is also the sign of a change which was taking place in Brooke-Rose 's attitude toward fiction . |
| 12 | However , an indefinite postponement was ordered by the judge on the first morning of the proceedings because of the danger posed by a violent protest against the trial which was taking place outside the courthouse . |
| 13 | As far as Gloucester was concerned , it was a recognition of the fact that the north had now emerged as his main sphere of interest , and his surrender of land in East Anglia was to some extent the corollary of the consolidation of his northern interests which was taking place in the same year . |
| 14 | Something was taking place in my life that I had absolutely no control over … and I was happy about it . |
| 15 | The problem with the current rapid expansion of higher education was not that it was underfunded , but that it was taking place in the wrong subject areas , he said . |
| 16 | The Foreign Office during the competition period was certainly aware that it was taking place but apparently quite unaware of its implications . ’ |
| 17 | We were just very grateful that it was taking place . ’ |
| 18 | Yesterday president Sylvia Byham said the club had originally planned the visit for last year and was delighted it was taking place at last . |
| 19 | Somewhere in the corridor , the basement door slammed and Jimmy watched everything as if it was taking place on a stage , and he was a member of the audience . |
| 20 | The Sustainability report makes no mention of the other audit , despite the fact that its author , Sustainability director John Elkington , was aware that it was taking place . |
| 21 | But nationally and locally because it seems that the answer to crime is , the decision was reached with the Chief Constable and the chairman of the police committee with very little reference to and the deputy and we were not consulted on whether or not it should take place or ask what problems we would encounter we were told it was taking place . |
| 22 | This school trip was not an annual event , but a newly-organized affair , to which the school 's attention had been drawn by the tireless Miss Haines ; it was to take place in Clara 's last year , when she was seventeen , a year after her father 's death . |
| 23 | Charles stated that he did not know what was to take place , and would not have entered St Peter 's basilica if he had known . |
| 24 | Duncan briefed us on what was to take place and we staggered backwards into the harbour , barking like seals and standing on each others fins . |
| 25 | Seeking to unravel police decision-making in relation to the classification of crimes , McCabe and Sutcliffe ( ibid. ) admitted that as outsiders they were usually not quick enough to grasp the nuances of what was taking place before them . |
| 26 | The group also said that the police had failed properly to appreciate the seriousness of what was taking place : that despite the racist nature of the attacks , local beat officers had lectured the Ks themselves on their ‘ attitude problem . ’ |
| 27 | And given the brutalizing effect of the war itself and the undeniable impact of at least parts of the ideological message which had been hammered into Germans for years , by no means all of what was taking place and would lead Germany into the abyss was unwelcome or unpopular . |
| 28 | It may even have been the case — a suggestion emanating , admittedly , from a piece of post-war testimony — that the Reich Propaganda Ministry deliberately started off a rumour that the Führer , on discovering what was taking place ( in an ‘ action ’ which , in reality , he himself had authorized in writing ) , had given the order to halt it immediately . |
| 29 | I did n't understand what was taking place within me . |
| 30 | The children all looked as if they did n't have a care in the world , that this was just another ordinary day , and what was taking place within the hall some sort of social occasion . |