Example sentences of "do [adv] take place " in BNC.

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1 It indicates that a real change did eventually take place after all , in so far as freedom of information and the inappropriateness of direct consultation without public mediation eventually became accepted as something which , at worst , had to be risked and something which , at best , formed an essential task of the construction of a Christian conscience in a Christian society .
2 The final shattering of the delusion did not take place until the 1940s ; but when it did occur , it prompted not the abandonment of the system of the delusion itself but a further and almost incredible elaboration of it .
3 Casual , individual violence was almost certainly more common than today but ‘ hooliganism ’ in the collective and contemporary sense did not take place at football matches .
4 The main thing was that the parade by the military vehicles did not take place . ’
5 ‘ We have two wills on file , ’ Timothy Hutton said , reaching the end of whatever internal debate he had been having , ‘ but the second , which was made in anticipation of her marriage to Mr Hawick , can not of course be submitted for Probate since that marriage did not take place .
6 Our next meeting did not take place until after the Budget in mid-March , but from then on the committee ran reasonably smoothly through to its seventh and last meeting at the start of April .
7 Not all the major living groups of organisms were present in the Cambrian , however , because the colonization of the land did not take place for another 200 million years , and so there were obviously no direct ancestors of land plants around , or of most of the land animals with which we are familiar today .
8 It would have taken a miracle , like the reconstitution of the central committee of DOCOMOMO in the shape of real veterans of the Great War , men brutalised by life in the trenches and determined to rebuild society starting at the top , to have recognised this siren song immediately and rejected this siren song immediately and rejected it out of hand , and at Eindhoven such a miracle did not take place .
9 Immediate bombing attacks were expected , and when these did not take place the evacuees began to trickle back .
10 The fight did not take place , Surrey claiming that he was too lowly born to fight with a king ; and the fish garth remained .
11 However , one of the arguments put forward by those who support all forms of field sports is that the landowners over whose land foxes and deer are being hunted and game birds shot , will maintain a more natural environment than if such activities did not take place .
12 Below : One of twenty-five cars decorated for the Coronation of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra in June 1902 , which sadly did not take place owing to the King 's illness .
13 But that wedding evidently did not take place , and in December 1753 it was Ann Bowden whom he rushed to the altar in Exeter , his bride being already heavily pregnant with the first of their many offspring .
14 The daughter 's second interview unfortunately did not take place until shortly after her mother had been admitted to long-stay care but it illustrates well the mixture of feelings which can be expressed .
15 The fact is , such a fusion did not take place .
16 The movement may have been divided in this period , but these attacks did not take place without resistance and the value of collective action was learned .
17 The development of the burhs , however , by their unknown instigator suggests a considerable awareness of a repeated problem , although the next recorded raid did not take place until 994 .
18 The report also criticises company secretary Bruce Gray , for preparing minutes of board meetings that did not take place without checking the fact of the meetings and the decisions reached .
19 The meeting between the councillors and local residents did not take place , despite this having been agreed unanimously by the Planning Committee .
20 BT conceded that , if a merger did not take place , the System X collaboration could also exist if either company purchased the other company 's interests or if a joint company were set up .
21 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 .
22 Initially the communications between Jones and Pons were by telephone and mail ; a formal meeting did not take place until February 1989 .
23 The small , hot and compact companion of Sirius was discovered in 1915 — the first real investigation of the Dogon did not take place until at least the 1930s and 1940s .
24 Luckily this did not take place . ’
25 In the preceding section it was accepted without question that if experiments were wasteful , presumably with or without animals , it would be best if they did not take place .
26 Though it did not take place in a laboratory , the study by Atkinson et al .
27 The matter is , however , far from conclusive and the presence of the southern building on a different alignment , much nearer to an east-west axis , with the entrance at the west side , raises the possibility that a small Christian shrine was built to sanctify the site ; , but this , according to the rather tenuous argument over the coins , did not take place until the end of the century .
28 This mission failed when three troop-carrying helicopters crashed in a remote desert area of Iran , and the final release of the hostages did not take place until after the election of 1980 .
29 The story I have sketched here should be sufficient to indicate that the Copernican Revolution did not take place at the drop of a hat or two from the Leaning Tower of Pisa .
30 The official inaugural meeting did not take place until October when the room had been open six months , and took the form of a Tea Soiree .
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