Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] can [vb infin] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only when the United States persuades Israel that it can not continue to deny the choice of representative that the Palestinian people have made — however reprehensible that representative may seem — that any meaningful international dialogue towards peace can take place . |
| 2 | On the basis of the principle of identity on the other hand , no subjection of nature can take place , since man identifies himself with the processes of nature . |
| 3 | Despite criticisms voiced by the Post Office Engineering Union ( 1980 ) it is still the case that warrants are to be issued under the hand of the Home Secretary rather than a judge , there apparently being no concern that a major invasion of privacy can take place by executive act without the need for any judicial approval or authorization , as is required in other democracies . |
| 4 | It is this work , performed by the writer and reader , which ensures that the communication of feeling can take place . |
| 5 | If we take a social view of language , and accept that it is the possession of the community as well as internal to speakers ' minds , we must be prepared to accept that reversal of merger can take place in this way , so long as speakers know that meat is an alternating class . |
| 6 | Anderson ( 1985 ) suggests that when one student has information to impart , some of that information should be distributed among the other students so that a certain amount of negotiation can take place as to what needs communicating and what does not ( see also Anderson and Lynch : Listening , in this Scheme ) . |
| 7 | Communication in science can take place at different levels of complexity or integration of informational elements ; data transfer is the most basic level , comprising the exchange of information on fundamental parameters , such as numerical or analytical data ; the descriptive level involves the transfer of data in a descriptive context ; and at the idea transfer level , deductions , interpretations and predictions are made from data and descriptions earlier acquired , and from background knowledge and experience . |
| 8 | The contemporary PCI contends that a peaceful transition to socialism can take place in Italy without damaging the fabric of liberal democracy . |
| 9 | In some families with aggressive children the boundaries and limits on the child 's behaviour may not be clear and a struggle for power can take place between the parents and child which rapidly escalates into violence . |
| 10 | Learning by imitation can take place in a few minutes , whereas the reproduction of a whole new adult animal can take many years . |
| 11 | Neither invention nor innovation and translation by design can take place in an inflexible or chaotic environment ; nor can they take place if flexible design procedures for capitalizing on new market conditions are lacking . |