Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] place [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonora Carrington , Leonor Fini and Meret Oppenehiem are amongst the many whose development as serious artists only took place outside Surrealism . |
| 2 | This generally took place at Easter preceded by confession , often in public , in which the social duty of making restitution for sin was stressed ; it might be succeeded by a parish party which played out at its own level the eternal being of love celebrated in the Mass . |
| 3 | After the abortive attempt to meet in Malawi in June [ see p. 37561 ] , the first direct talks between the Frelimo government and the MNR rebels aimed at ending the 15-year civil war finally took place in Rome on July 8-10 . |
| 4 | ‘ Donkeys , Janet , ’ Gwendolen trilled again , but the will to fight had left her , and she easily ceded place of honour to Samuel . |
| 5 | Cases involving taxi drivers usually took place at night in remote areas ; it was an easy form of attack . |
| 6 | In London , weddings usually took place on Saturday , so that a day 's work was not lost , and in Middlesbrough , Lady Bell , the wife of the ironmaster , recorded that marriage was ‘ merely an incident in the daily work ’ . |
| 7 | Demonstrations against the military regime also took place on Oct. 5 , the first anniversary of the 1988 referendum in which the electorate had voted overwhelmingly against Pinochet 's continuation in office until 1998 [ see pp. 36344-45 ] . |
| 8 | The quarter finals also took place on Saturday and produced a mixed bag of entertainment . |
| 9 | Interviews also took place with parents in 10 of the 25 cases selected for follow-up.The study looked at cases during the first six months after the initial case conference . |
| 10 | Other transfers also took place with Stock Accounting being transferred to the Management Accounting Section . |
| 11 | Sixteen days before the hand-over of the Vampire , another historic event also took place at Marham — the final Victor major overhauls was commenced by the VMMU , marking the last Handley Page-built aircraft ever to be overhauled by the RAF . |
| 12 | Talks on currency convertibility also took place between Bulgaria and the Soviet Union during November and December . |
| 13 | Demonstrations against the poll tax also took place in Manchester and those events were continuously reported on the local radio stations to which prisoners habitually listen . |
| 14 | The first incident , in May , also took place in Ventersdorp , where the headquarters of the AWB was located [ see p. 38179 ] . |
| 15 | Anti-US demonstrations in Tehran drew crowds of 2,000 on Jan. 18 and 5,000 on Jan. 21 ; demonstrations also took place in Orumiyeh , Karaj and Qom . |
| 16 | As the title implies it originally took place on Whit Monday , but when this ceased to be a Bank Holiday it moved to the new Bank Holiday . |
| 17 | The resulting increase in heavy chemical output mainly took place in Germany although some smaller producers , such as Austria-Hungary and Russia , made their appearance . |
| 18 | The massacre really took place on Saint Peter 's Field , but a sharp writer on the radical Manchester Observer linked the outrage to the battle of Waterloo , coming up with the headline ‘ Peterloo ’ . |
| 19 | Important land transactions probably often took place at meetings , and charter witness lists are valuable evidence on the king 's major followers , and , if enough survive , the careers of bishops , abbots , ealdormen and thegns can to some extent be reconstructed from them . |
| 20 | This type of grave-marker , however , now gave place to marble monuments , and the masterpieces of sixth-century black-figure are on a more modest scale . |
| 21 | Hassan 's visit to Spain eventually took place on Sept. 25-27 , 1989 , when three bilateral accords were signed . |
| 22 | The CCP seventh plenum ( of the 13th central committee ) eventually took place in December 1990 after several months of delay , allegedly because of divisions between the central and provincial authorities over economic policy . |
| 23 | The election of a successor eventually took place in February 1752 , when two candidates presented themselves , the Rev. William Jackson and the Rev. John Chorley Knowles . |
| 24 | A confident graduation ceremony at which the Chairman of Governors spoke optimistically took place in February 1979 , and at its meeting in May 1979 the Council received a report of a preliminary visit by a small group of members and officers the previous month to the Polytechnic . |
| 25 | A meeting duly took place on Sept. 18 , at the " peace village " of Panmunjom within the Demilitarized zone at which North Korea put forward its advocacy of a single UN seat in order to avoid continuing the country 's temporary division . |
| 26 | The strike reportedly took place in mid-April and involved an eight-hour walk-out by up to 2,000 textile factory workers in Berat , some 70 km south of Tirana , protesting against low wages , although one report also spoke of anti-Hoxha slogans being daubed on the factory walls . |
| 27 | Ultimately the final culmination was the same : anarchy eventually gave place to patrician capitalism . |
| 28 | In the summer months of 1435 there took place at Arras , in north-eastern France , a great congress attended by the representatives of a number of European states and the Church . |
| 29 | In the summer of 1306 there took place at Montreuil the first of a series of meetings ( ‘ processes ’ ) between French and English representatives to try to work out the legal position of the lands held by the English in Aquitaine . |
| 30 | Having heard that , and secondly due to your patience er through your patience getting clarification that it the borough could if it wished allocate its sixty hectares under this structure plan policy outside the town centres and that things that then took place in town centres would be extra , it 's not something they have to do but it 's a freedom they would have in their local plan , having heard those two things , the concern I 've got that even at sixty hectares , Harrogate 's allocation was too small erm really recedes very quickly sir , and would completely disappear and here Mr Allenby and I are at one , |