Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [adv] [verb] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was reputed to be one of Europe 's most disordered cities , and there was scarcely a year in which some rioting did not take place . |
| 2 | And a murder did not take place . " |
| 3 | Theft did not take place until the accused did the unauthorised act . |
| 4 | The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it . |
| 5 | A revision of electoral lists had not taken place since 1985 , contrary to the Constitution which stipulated such a revision every three years . |
| 6 | Ernest Kombo , speaker of the transitional legislature , the Higher Council of the Republic ( CSR ) , warned on Sept. 14 , two days before the opening of the CSR 's session , that elections planned for the first half of 1992 might be postponed because a census of the electorate scheduled for mid-September had yet to take place . |
| 7 | In December 1431 Henry VI , now ten years old , was brought to Paris and crowned in Notre-Dame by an English bishop ; the fact that the ceremony had not taken place at Reims did not escape the notice of contemporaries . |
| 8 | No doubt some very holy ceremony had once taken place there on Beltane . |
| 9 | He was sorry to say that torture had even taken place in democratic countries , such as Britain and Israel . |
| 10 | It seems also to have been hoped that detailed and embarrassing cross-examination of the complainant as to whether penetration had actually taken place would cease to be necessary with a reform of this kind . |
| 11 | Confirmations and ordinations did not take place — most of the bishops and many of the religious communities were in exile . |
| 12 | ‘ We have two wills on file , ’ Timothy Hutton said , reaching the end of whatever internal debate he had been having , ‘ but the second , which was made in anticipation of her marriage to Mr Hawick , can not of course be submitted for Probate since that marriage did not take place . |
| 13 | Harbury pretended the scene had never taken place . |
| 14 | ‘ First Confession had just take place . |
| 15 | Defending Hinkin and Plumb , solicitor Bob Booker told the court that the offences had all taken place within a fortnight in early March . |
| 16 | In the case of a totally sealed labour market , new employees would only be drawn from the families of existing staff , and efforts would be made to ensure that individuals did not seek places outside the firm . |
| 17 | Our next meeting did not take place until after the Budget in mid-March , but from then on the committee ran reasonably smoothly through to its seventh and last meeting at the start of April . |
| 18 | Initially the communications between Jones and Pons were by telephone and mail ; a formal meeting did not take place until February 1989 . |
| 19 | The official inaugural meeting did not take place until October when the room had been open six months , and took the form of a Tea Soiree . |
| 20 | Whatever may have occurred earlier , it seems most likely that the sustained recovery of population did not take place until the late fifteenth or the early sixteenth century . |
| 21 | Considerable solution compaction between grains indicates that cementation did not take place until relatively late in the diagenetic history of the sediment . |
| 22 | The movement may have been divided in this period , but these attacks did not take place without resistance and the value of collective action was learned . |
| 23 | There was a particularly piquant episode when it had been reported to him that a meeting had allegedly taken place somewhere in the country , where Jenkins was supposed to have organised his cabal . |
| 24 | Some environmental improvements and land reclamation had additionally taken place . |
| 25 | Matters came to a head when the central government began to form the Unions , a process more important in the east of the county than the west where much reform had already taken place . |
| 26 | But argues that how that in actual fact by this time land reform had already taken place and there was n't enough , any more land to be redistributed . |
| 27 | He stared up and down the street in incredulity as he watched the finely dressed women going about their daily tasks , as if a world war had never taken place . |
| 28 | She says the reason for this is ‘ the need to believe that the event recounted actually took place , or is taking place : no one believes a prophet , and even a prediction needs to be realised within the narrative for sense and interest ’ ( 329 ) . |
| 29 | It is certainly not the case that this can be discerned in the work of all the nouveaux romanciers at the same time ; however , that such a development did indeed take place suggests that a new poetics was being tacitly formulated . |
| 30 | Elections for the 14 Assam seats in the Lok Sabha did not take place in as scheduled in November 1989 because electoral rolls were incomplete [ see p. 36977 ] . |