Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] has taken [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Britain , public sector-led investment has taken place down the M4 corridor and in the south-east . |
| 2 | It is highly probable that many men will claim a belief that the girl was over 16 since , if sexual intercourse has taken place , this is the only defence available to the charge . |
| 3 | Within the English tradition of radical , ‘ Marx-influenced ’ , sociology the tendency has been to concede that social mobility is in principle important ( large-scale mobility would make a difference to one 's analysis ) , but to deny that really significant social mobility has taken place . |
| 4 | I say planned and agreed , because , as my hon. Friend the Minister knows , more than one public inquiry has taken place and the go-ahead has been given after all the proper formalities have been gone through . |
| 5 | Most moral entrepreneurial groups contend that a ( partial ) sexual revolution has taken place , though little evidence of radical changes in sexual behaviour is forthcoming — other than evidence of a circumstantial kind . |
| 6 | Extensive public debate on integrated and segregated education has taken place throughout Ireland . |
| 7 | In Europe , at the time of writing , only the German launch has taken place with most major European countries to follow . |
| 8 | This social fusion has taken place through intermarriage and access to the social circles and institutions which denote prestige in society , such as organisations , clubs and landed estates ( Sunkel 1965 ) . |
| 9 | They point out that the conservation value of the land to be planted has not been considered in the report 's assessment , and that commercial viability has taken precedence . |
| 10 | When the father of Hippolytus , Theseus , returns from his travels , he is unable to believe that no sexual congress has taken place between his wife and his son . |
| 11 | The European Council has taken note of the first report from the relevant committee on the implementation of the European plan to combat drugs . |
| 12 | But such union-government bargaining has taken place on a wide range of issues ; for example , over new investment in poorer regions ( e.g. Eisenhammer 1985 : 42–4 ) , rescue bids for ailing private sector companies ( e.g. Grassini 1981 : 82 ) , extension of union participation in management ( e.g. Batstone et al. |
| 13 | A real tragedy has taken place . |
| 14 | In the streets , for example , how can you actually decide whether a violent act has taken place or not ? |
| 15 | In order to simplify the task of explaining how that understanding can be achieved , it will be expedient to consider that the long aeon in which the development of the Created God has taken place can be divided into three periods . |
| 16 | Since that time central government has taken steps to reduce the proportion of local expenditure it funds . |
| 17 | We will also assume that perfect segmentation has taken place ; there are no competing alignments of overlapping phonemes in the graph . |
| 18 | Since then the serious pushing has taken place in Colombia where the cocaine cartels have literally ruined football by using Medellin and FC Cali as laundering centres for drug money . |
| 19 | By contrast , in Greece , which is divided up into nine health administration districts , little reform has taken place . |
| 20 | That working-class wages would remain at subsistence level — the fact is that the real wage of the average worker has increased by a factor of over ten between 1900–70 in the UK and by a factor of fourteen in the U S over the same period ; that collective ownership of the means of production would result in an increase of wealth for the workers and so improve their lot — the fact is that in both Russia and Cuba it has been necessary to restore discipline in factories by introducing a military routine with the surplus value being siphoned off by the state ; that communist revolutions would start in such advanced industrial countries such as Britain , France , America and Germany — the fact is that a socialist revolution has taken place in none of these countries ; that conflicts between states are the results of capitalism and will cease under communism — the fact is that in the streets of Budapest and Prague , in Afghanistan and on the Soviet-Chinese border we have seen the power of the Red Army being used against fellow communists ; that the income difference between capitalists and workers will rise — the fact is that in all industrial countries the effective after-tax , after-benefits real income gap between rich and poor has diminished ; that capitalism will collapse because of its internal contradictions — the fact is that capitalism has not collapsed in any Western country , yet . |
| 21 | The reason , quite simply , is that architects find work where the market for their skill is most lucrative , and in Britain that tends to be on sites where intensive development has taken place for generations , particularly the commercial centres and inner suburbs of big cities . |
| 22 | Unfortunately little excavation has taken place in the interiors of these fortified sites and what has been is not very informative for , in many cases , the combination of stone-robbing and deep-ploughing has reduced even masonry buildings to amorphous scatters of stone . |
| 23 | During the period from the mid-1970's to date , rapid expansion has taken place ; the company now has a turnover of about £25m per annum and around 1,000 employees . |
| 24 | The irony of Mr Skinner 's re-regulation of the airline industry , say Wall Street analysts , is that it comes after the shake-out among domestic carriers has taken place and serves only to reinforce the advantages enjoyed by the surviving majors . |
| 25 | An increasing number of archivists and a few historians are coming to believe that a major change has taken place in the manner in which human society creates the evidence which will be used by the historians who , in the future , come to write about the late twentieth century ( Morris , et. al. 1992 ) . |
| 26 | However , it is precisely where the infliction of grievous bodily harm has taken place that rape is most easily established under a traditional rape law , so that the absence of a non-consent requirement in these circumstances is not particularly significant . |
| 27 | Yet in sharp contrast to this development , the 1985 Act provides expressly that evidence which tends to suggest that illegal tapping has taken place is not to be admitted in court . |
| 28 | Since then the transformation of rural villages into non-agricultural settlements has taken place in a series of waves out along the lines of transportation from the major urban centres , particularly , in the first instance , London . |
| 29 | It is also the age of consent for sexual intercourse , and therefore for a girl under this age to be pregnant is proof that an illegal act has taken place . |
| 30 | Informal social organisation in many rural areas is weak and difficult to stimulate , especially where major depopulation has taken place . |