Example sentences of "it was [verb] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem with the current rapid expansion of higher education was not that it was underfunded , but that it was taking place in the wrong subject areas , he said . |
| 2 | The Foreign Office during the competition period was certainly aware that it was taking place but apparently quite unaware of its implications . ’ |
| 3 | We were just very grateful that it was taking place . ’ |
| 4 | Yesterday president Sylvia Byham said the club had originally planned the visit for last year and was delighted it was taking place at last . |
| 5 | Somewhere in the corridor , the basement door slammed and Jimmy watched everything as if it was taking place on a stage , and he was a member of the audience . |
| 6 | The Sustainability report makes no mention of the other audit , despite the fact that its author , Sustainability director John Elkington , was aware that it was taking place . |
| 7 | But nationally and locally because it seems that the answer to crime is , the decision was reached with the Chief Constable and the chairman of the police committee with very little reference to and the deputy and we were not consulted on whether or not it should take place or ask what problems we would encounter we were told it was taking place . |
| 8 | This school trip was not an annual event , but a newly-organized affair , to which the school 's attention had been drawn by the tireless Miss Haines ; it was to take place in Clara 's last year , when she was seventeen , a year after her father 's death . |