Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] have taken place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Promotions to abbacies and bishoprics were probably often the subject of competition between important families , and canvassing and intrigue may have taken place both locally and at court . |
| 2 | The Secklow hundred mound in Milton Keynes is the only hundred meeting place which has been excavated , and no study has been carried out which might indicate that in addition to the courts other activities may have taken place , like markets and fairs , the collection of customs and dues , or religious ceremonies . |
| 3 | The change must have taken place long before Ediacaran times for when those rocks were deposited the fundamental invertebrate divisions were already established . |
| 4 | What he perceived was rather the state of the doctor and he inferred from this that a change must have taken place at some time before that moment . |
| 5 | So many meetings and partings must have taken place beneath his roof , so many dark plots hatched between his hospitable walls . |
| 6 | Firminus , comes of the Auvergne , tried to prevent his name going forward , but Avitus reached the court of king Sigibert , and was consecrated in Metz , although according to the canons the ceremony should have taken place in Clermont . |
| 7 | He told his wife ( and himself ) that he was going to meet Adam in order to break the news gently to him that these awful discoveries had been made at Wyvis Hall and that foul play might have taken place while he , Adam , was actually its owner . |
| 8 | You may have used your pitch range ( which was introduced in 15.3 ) in different ways : your pitch movements may have taken place within quite a narrow range ( narrow pitch range ) or using the full range between high and low ( wide pitch range ) ; if you did not use wide pitch range , you may have used different keys : high key ( using the upper part of your pitch range ) , mid key ( using the middle part of the range ) or low key ( the lower part ) . |
| 9 | Or the defendant may be a multinational bank , carrying on business here , but all the dealings in question may have taken place at an overseas branch . |
| 10 | A different modification would have taken place in gnathostomes where the separate nasal sacs remained large but the common inhalant duct was lost . |
| 11 | No problem this time and we have the chance to wonder once more how the tragic massacre could have taken place in such a beautiful spot . |
| 12 | Discussion in the staff meeting should have taken place before any proposal affecting school policy is presented to the governors and a class teacher should certainly have been involved in any submission about an individual pupil . |
| 13 | Mental transference of some sort must have taken place because , putting down his napkin and rising , he had said to her when she had begun to remove his breakfast china , ‘ McAllister . ’ |
| 14 | Further , to argue , as Gandhi does , that progress towards ahi sā must have taken place otherwise the human race would have become extinct by now , in the same way as lower species of animal life have become extinct , is to ignore the principle of natural selection , and the fact that more sophisticated weapons of hi sā are now at man 's disposal making the possibility of his self-destruction and extinction more real today than at any time in the past . |
| 15 | According to his original view of the future , planetary landing would have taken place by 1980 . |
| 16 | Attempts to attract candidates without this bias are very difficult to make successfully , especially as much of the self-selection process will have taken place by social conditioning in homes , schools and colleges , long before the Civil Service Commission enters into the reckoning . |
| 17 | This produces pages of transcription which are carefully scanned in the hope that for one brief second some minor indiscretion may have taken place . |
| 18 | We must , however , now accept that these plans are developments from the original forms and that great changes may have taken place before we get to the earliest arrangement we can distinguish . |
| 19 | Thus , any attempt to analyse the former land use around a settlement needs to take into account more than just the present physical nature of the land : changes may have taken place in any period under the influence of the technical abilities , and social and economic conditions prevailing at any time . |
| 20 | We ought to ask ourselves why this disquieting inflation should have taken place ; we ought also to consider what causal relationship there is between ‘ artistic culture ’ and creativity . |
| 21 | The old vision of the centrality of the railways was replaced by a set of counterfactual conditionals , estimations of the extent to which development could have taken place without the railway . |
| 22 | Now these are the reasons that , why Tony claims the revolution would have taken place around this period . |
| 23 | Parking problems and noise in the mainly residential area around Darlington Memorial hospital , where the development would have taken place , were given as the main reasons for dismissing the appeal by Surrey-based Bioplan . |
| 24 | Far reaching and radical changes will have taken place . |
| 25 | During this year planned interventions designed to reduce bullying problems will have taken place within these schools ( our existing DES funded project ) hence these second interviews will focus on how these interventions have affected the child ( as perceived by the child , and by their teacher ) , as well as whether any involvement in bully/victim problems has been reduced . |
| 26 | In the north we have seen that this village planning may have taken place in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 27 | The first is that drowned valleys down to about 90 m ( 300 ft ) are explicable as features related to low glacial sea levels and later drowned , but if they are deeper then this subsidence must have taken place . |
| 28 | The answer to the first question involves an analysis of speciation , which in turn leads to a consideration of the ecological conditions under which such speciation might have taken place , and the answer to the second also involves an analysis of the physical and biotic influences on the organisms concerned . |
| 29 | ‘ We 're delighted that Dunlop have got involved but the tournament would have taken place no matter what . |
| 30 | Associative learning will have taken place . |