Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] [verb] taken [noun] " 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 | The deal would have taken Jones 's transfers to almost £3 million , spanning four moves with the two London clubs , Leeds and Sheffield United . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | To be heading down towards the Equator , towards tiny islands in the sun where pirates and privateers must have taken refuge to lie in wait for those gold-laden Spanish galleons , where a rich mixture of French , Dutch , Spanish and English had left an intriguing treasure-chest of cultures to be explored … |
| 12 | This can be produced in less than 12 hours , when previously designing and producing molds for prototypes could have taken weeks , if not months . |
| 13 | Good example in ninety two if Harlow council had been a whole er whole council election in nineteen ninety two it 's highly likely the Conservatives would have taken control . |
| 14 | A different modification would have taken place in gnathostomes where the separate nasal sacs remained large but the common inhalant duct was lost . |
| 15 | But before the advent of data-processing capacity , the actual analyses would have taken man-years of clerical toil to complete . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | within a period of three months from the date of the total loss settlement the Policyholder shall have taken delivery of such replacement car and insured it with the Corporation |
| 21 | According to his original view of the future , planetary landing would have taken place by 1980 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | This produces pages of transcription which are carefully scanned in the hope that for one brief second some minor indiscretion may have taken place . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They were both marking , which they should n't have been … fairclough should have taken goodman out of the game … leaving one of the others to clean up . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Now these are the reasons that , why Tony claims the revolution would have taken place around this period . |
| 30 | 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 . |