Example sentences of "take [noun] [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.

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1 This ceremony takes place at the same time as the annual celebration for the freedom of the city by 38 Regiment of the Royal Engineers .
2 Obviously , when capital is financed from revenue , the accounting takes place at the same time as the financing .
3 The second practice run takes place at the same time on Thursday .
4 In learning sign language the opportunities for doing this are relatively few , and so sign language learning takes place in a less than ideal environment .
5 The initial orientation can not be predicted , but reversal after a few seconds ' observation always takes place in the same way .
6 The transition from one to the other takes place after a few seconds of observation , is discontinous and can not be stopped at in an intermediate position .
7 His rapport with the Wagner household comes across vividly from letters to Rohde in the late summer of 1869 : " Just recently I 've paid four visits there in quick succession and a letter takes wing in the same direction almost every week " ; " On the visit before last , during the night , a baby boy called Siegfried was born .
8 Why do not the Government set up — as the Labour party will when it takes office in a few months — a national crime prevention council to co-ordinate the work of all the Departments of state in crime prevention ?
9 Tree shrews are a prime example of speciation , whereby a family branches out to create separate species that can take advantage of the many food niches in the rich tropical habitat .
10 To say that the death of the pigs did not take place on the same occasion at all and has nothing to do with the miracle .
11 For this pattern the crossover should take place on the same line , not alternating as the previous example .
12 An advantage of this system is that work can commence much earlier than in the traditional system because much of the design work will take place at the same time as the actual construction .
13 In some cases competition and training may take place at the same facility , in others at separate facilities .
14 The audit should take place at the same time as the hardware inventory is being checked , and a relational database should be constructed to link the two inventories together .
15 The aim is that ratification and the Queen 's assent may take place at the same time .
16 It has been a matter of controversy whether the non-associative kinds of learning are really learning at all , and if so , whether they do not really take place by the same general mechanisms as associative learning .
17 Learning by imitation can take place in a few minutes , whereas the reproduction of a whole new adult animal can take many years .
18 ‘ The presentation of the prizes will take place in a few minutes … ’
19 After a flight to the east , meetings should take place in the latter half of the daytime rather than in the morning by new local time .
20 During the trip to India — which , British elections permitting , should take place within a few months — Baker will emphasise government support for any satellite deals that India makes with private industry , for example , the state could provide loans to pay for the work .
21 People taking certain medicines should not take alcohol at the same time , or maybe not take it at all because the alcohol will have a more pronounced effect under/or the effect of the medicine will be altered .
22 That does not take account of the many closures and redundancies announced since the end of 1989-90 which have halved again the number of jobs in the north-west .
23 No. 11 Commando became involved in fighting the Vichy French in Syria , while No. 8 Commando took part in a few unsuccessful raids along the North African coast , transported into action by the Navy .
24 Icarus team leader David Lewis took part in the same jump .
25 The incident follows the death less than two weeks ago of a marine warrant officer taking part in the same exercise .
26 During the troubles of 1173–4 the inhabitants of the citadel seized the opportunity to turn their enclosure into a proper circuit of walls , a move which was probably aimed against the city rather than against ducal authority , though clearly it was taking advantage of the latter 's temporary weakness .
27 Evergreen are taking advantage of the many tons of rubbish , until recently just dumped , that come from spinning and knitting factories , jumble sales and charity shops .
28 Perpendicular without intermission , taking steps of the same length at the same intervals , their arms hanging useless and helpless they were no better than trussed chickens but for their faces which , even in repose , suggested movement no less than a bird 's wings … .
29 Presumably this principle would apply to trade unions taking action in the same dispute where their fellow members had been injuncted .
30 Hubel and Wiesel showed that the properties of the neurons in the visual cortex were drastically changed by restricting the visual experience of an animal , provided that these restrictions took place during a few months early in life called the sensitive period .
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