Example sentences of "[v-ing] place [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its dense growth provides nesting places for a range of bird life as well as warm cover in winter or roosting small birds . |
| 2 | ‘ They must have been meeting places for The Hell Fire Club he discovered . ’ |
| 3 | There were , after all , difficulties in meeting the Government 's objective of guaranteeing places on the Youth Training Scheme for every young person not at work or at school . |
| 4 | ‘ It would be difficult to imagine a less likely looking place for the continuation of the great trade route into Chinese Turkestan . |
| 5 | The preceding paragraph relates exclusively to applicants who are both liable to pay overseas fees and who are seeking places on a degree course . |
| 6 | There were plenty of eating places about the heart of the city . |
| 7 | Working members enjoy the social life at Llanfair Caereinion the headquarters of the railway , there are numerous hostelries and eating places within the village , a walking distance from the B R sleeping coach which offers an overnight rate of £1 per person . |
| 8 | The age barriers to college entry are now rapidly crumbling , giving place to a policy of open access — which means college admission to students of all ages who can demonstrate their capacity to benefit from study . |
| 9 | After rounding the last mark incorrectly , they returned , losing places in the process , only to catch a submerged dustbin on their keel . |
| 10 | 1990 sees the Mill 's Tenth Anniversary , however , and various celebrations are taking place including a buffet meal and time of thanksgiving , celebration and praise . |
| 11 | Colonial government is presented as a largely apolitical , administrative business , unrelated to any economic and social changes which might be taking place as a consequence of colonial domination and exploitation ( Eisenstadt 1963 ) . |
| 12 | There are many uncertainties , and a wide-ranging debate is taking place across the country as to the nature of this new relationship between schools and LEAs . |
| 13 | For details of special events taking place across the country , see the English Heritage Events Diary 1992 . |
| 14 | Throughout February and March more than 200 sponsored swims will be taking place across the country in aid of Greenpeace . |
| 15 | A fundraising hike , to kick off from Osmotherly , near Northallerton , will be one of 185 taking place across the country . |
| 16 | It would also be of great interest to learn about the distinctive experiences and initiatives taking place across the rest of the UK . |
| 17 | The background to this debate , and clearly the cause of this debate , involves the great change — or different kinds of change — taking place across the continent of Europe and within the European Community . |
| 18 | Nineteen parades are taking place across the province . |
| 19 | The period investigated is one of increased interest in political and academic circles in the implications of the decisive shift in the British age structure , towards a higher proportion of older people , which had been taking place since the beginning of the century . |
| 20 | Discussions had been taking place since the middle of last week . |
| 21 | He spoke of the ‘ renaissance in world history ’ that was taking place along the rim of the Pacific , and declared that his country — the greater part of which , he told his audience , lay ‘ East of the Urals ’ — was about to develop a coherent attitude towards it and its people . |
| 22 | If a translation is directly imposed on the model , or occurs as a result of the rotation not taking place about the attachment point , the program completes the rotation and then re-positions the model back on to the point of association . |
| 23 | Whilst all the furore has been taking place about the quality , or otherwise , of desktop publishing many professional graphics , printing and publishing houses have been making up their own minds as to its usefulness . |
| 24 | No longer did the garrison feel that their sufferings were taking place for the amusement of the crowd . |
| 25 | Negotiations are also taking place with the Development Board for financial help towards the project which will provide vital expansion space for new plant and machinery . |
| 26 | The objectives were first to counter the rapid growth of trade unionism which was taking place with the acceleration of the industrialisation process . |
| 27 | Ekaterina Roubanova , the slim , gifted and articulate youngster is a Russian , although there are continuing negotiations taking place with the ITF to make her eligible to represent Great Britain in team competitions in the future . |
| 28 | The exercise is taking place on a purpose built village on the Central Ammunitions Depot at Kineton . |
| 29 | It was ironic that the union should be taking place on a day when Christian Democrats had tabled a Strasbourg motion condemning Mr Major 's refusal to sign the Social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 30 | The ongoing experiments in this research project are taking place on a network of Unix workstations with a prototype document reuse tool that has a relational database back-end and an X-windows interface . |