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

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1 The hand-over of those objects only took place after Iraq had lodged a complaint with the United Nations .
2 However , these reactions only take place because of the presence of manufactured chlorine in the stratosphere .
3 Coleridge lived in London , and never returned to the North of England , so that meetings only took place on rare occasions .
4 Leonora Carrington , Leonor Fini and Meret Oppenehiem are amongst the many whose development as serious artists only took place outside Surrealism .
5 The fights apparently took place every Sunday morning in a Muslim cemetery in Old Delhi : ‘ Bahot acha event hai , ’ said Balvinder .
6 At this date schools still meant places where masters of repute might be found , but the masters might well move on to other cities taking their pupils with them .
7 Cases involving taxi drivers usually took place at night in remote areas ; it was an easy form of attack .
8 Other more ambitious walks also took place that winter .
9 However , in practice , trials rarely take place .
10 Coasting movements also take place , but their exact scale is very difficult to determine in the presence of resident pairs at most coastal watching sites .
11 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 .
12 Most coverage of rape trials now takes place in the daily popular press rather than the special interest paper of the News of the World .
13 A useful exchange of views always takes place and engenders an excellent team spirit , which proved its worth with the campaign for increased subscriptions when we all felt we were working towards the same goal and had a common purpose .
14 Leisure activities still take place here although they are more likely to be water skiing , wind surfing and sailing rather than bathing .
15 Searches for functional intersections thus take place at compatible levels ( see Figure 2.26 ) .
16 It is also worth noting that Corbridge was the site of what must be one of the earliest archaeological excavations ever to take place in Britain , directed by King John in 1201 when he was seeking treasure .
17 The quarter finals also took place on Saturday and produced a mixed bag of entertainment .
18 Other transfers also took place with Stock Accounting being transferred to the Management Accounting Section .
19 An inspection of the dogs then took place .
20 History lovers will be fascinated by the excavations currently taking place on the south of the island at Akrotiri — here much of the original Minoan city , dating back 3,350 years has been unearthed , revealing three storey houses , utensils and beautiful frescoes , preserved by the volcanic ash that covered the city .
21 Movshon and his colleagues ( in Maunsell and Newsome 1987 ) have shown that this translation from the movement of edges to the movement of objects probably takes place in area MT .
22 And and it is also perhaps distracted er attention from the interesting disagreements also taking place at the Labour party conference this week between the one more pushes , if I might describe them and the hard liners who believe you 've got to be radical .
23 While the panels normally take place in St Augustine 's in many instances it has been judged more beneficial to hold the meetings outside school ( e.g. in the secure wing of St Mary 's List D , at Rosevale school and at Larchgrove Assessment Centre ) .
24 Bush stated that prosperity depended on " trade not aid " and that the initiative was also intended to bolster the economic and political changes already taking place in the region .
25 Important changes also took place among the proto-fish .
26 A general approximation is that a 10°C rise in temperature doubles the rate of reaction , but in practice , the usefulness of this approximation is limited by the fact that at temperatures far removed from ‘ normal ’ , other changes often take place which never occur at normal temperatures .
27 This was an important new step , the immediate advantages of which are involvement in all aspects of teacher training , instead of only in the training of secondary school teachers with which the Department of Educational Studies was previously concerned , and the broadening of the University 's own activities in accordance with the general changes now taking place in higher education .
28 The formation of properly constituted county clubs , eventually leading to a county championship structure , has led Dr Midwinter to place these developments firmly in the context of the social changes then taking place .
29 Head office managers often rely on obtaining information in face-to-face discussions with subordinates , and will happily assign large sums of money to travel budgets in order for meetings with executives abroad to take place .
30 Changes in storage practice , materials and containers sometimes take place without due regard for their effect on protective systems and the possibility of other forms of improvisation can never be eliminated .
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