Example sentences of "[to-vb] [vb pp] place [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 1991 Paris Marathon , due to have taken place on April 14 , has been cancelled , as has the Paris 25K , scheduled for March 17 . |
| 2 | Can anyone suggest a possible mechanism for the reaction that appears to have taken place at room temperature and in an aqueous medium ? |
| 3 | It was to have taken place at Fenn Farm in Wavendon near Milton Keynes next weekend . |
| 4 | The four appeared at Inner London Crown Court charged with the scam , which is said to have taken place between January 1989 and December 1991 . |
| 5 | Minor clashes were reported to have taken place between police and students at Lima 's San Marcos University . |
| 6 | * Of the five nuclear accidents to have taken place since January 1991 , all but one have involved RBMK reactors . |
| 7 | The changes , thought to have taken place in July when ANC president Nelson Mandela was on an overseas tour , apparently excluded him and his deputy , Walter Sisulu , from official policy-making bodies . |
| 8 | During later diagenesis , however , these properties were locally enhanced by late leaching which is thought to have taken place in response to the decarboxylation of organic matter in the Stinkschiefer ( Clark 1980a ) . |
| 9 | The crime is alleged to have taken place in premises between Saturday night and Sunday morning . |
| 10 | The theft , which was believed to have taken place in May or June , fuelled alarm about the marked incidence of uranium smuggling from eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union [ see pp. 38987 ; 39170 ] . |
| 11 | Most of this appears to have taken place in Paris although there are some indications that a major London firm of stockbrokers was also involved . |
| 12 | Both incidents were said to have taken place in Gloucester . |
| 13 | If do is used in the past tense , therefore , the infinitive 's event is explicitly affirmed to have taken place in time in the past ; compare : ( 1a ) I ate my porridge . |
| 14 | A mutiny of 600 police officers in pursuit of higher salaries was reported to have taken place in police districts in the southern province of Santa Cruz and there were also reports of growing discontent among the military . |
| 15 | For Christians ( inasmuch as Christians see a peculiar revelation to have taken place in Christ ) tend to interpret Christ 's words and actions in abstraction from any historical context , or , believing that God in Christ had a particular intention , they understand his words and actions in the light of later church history . |
| 16 | It is certainly not a very edifying tale , but it is small fry compared with the massacre in Romania last weekend at Timisoara , and the further shootings reported to have taken place in Bucharest yesterday . |
| 17 | Everyone said how lucky she was to have snared such a prize as the marquis , but she would have given anything to have changed places with Mary Waters , her maid , who was fat , plain and single . |