Example sentences of "may [verb] place [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Formal or informal bargaining may take place across the boundaries of the corporation between unions and political authorities — ministries , governments and local or regional authorities . |
| 2 | The opening of new offices may take place as part of a general expansion of the activities of a firm to additional locations ( though usually never so far away that they can not benefit from the goodwill attaching to headquarters ) or involve streamlining administration by establishing different departments in separate offices . |
| 3 | ‘ Channel ’ refers to the medium by which messages are received or transmitted : comprehension of language may take place through auditory ( hearing ) or visual channels ( reading print or signs ) , and production may be mediated via vocal ( speaking ) or motor ( writing or manual signing ) systems . |
| 4 | The review of material may take place through a computer terminal , or by means of a proof print . |
| 5 | Spread is slow and extension may take place over a period of months , even years . |
| 6 | Firstly , the analysis is entirely static , ignoring changes that may take place over time . |
| 7 | To achieve efficiency , pruning of low-scoring readings may take place at certain points without greatly affecting the accuracy of the system . |
| 8 | Entertainment of company clients may take place at the property , although this is just an assumption . |
| 9 | It may take place at any stage of intellectual or emotional — or libidinal — development . |
| 10 | Suppose that it is known that a certain event is to occur on a certain day , but may take place at only one of two possible times , namely , 12.00 noon or 12.00 midnight . |
| 11 | This suppression may take place at different levels , sub-cortical as well as cortical , within the auditory system ( Berlin , Lowe-Bell , Cullen , Thompson and Loovis , 1973 ; Berlin , 1977 ) . |
| 12 | Further specialist assessments by other members of the team may take place at any time during the episode of care if they are considered necessary . |
| 13 | Measurement and subsequent payment for work executed may take place at weekly , monthly , or at random intervals and therefore may not be related to the date of the main contract valuation or the builder 's costing periods . |
| 14 | This may take place at the first meeting with the client , though for larger assignments a site visit and access to confidential material may be necessary before such an assessment can be properly made . |
| 15 | This may take place at the first meeting with the client , although for larger assignments access to confidential material may be necessary before such an assessment can be made . |
| 16 | In some cases competition and training may take place at the same facility , in others at separate facilities . |
| 17 | Yes , Chairman , can I say that erm , when the b the budget 's in the process of formulation and we 're discussing the question of balances and reserves and how they should be marked for the immediate future , particularly in regard to the way that er , reorganization may take place at police authorities in the very near future , and also those of us who are on this , on , on other committees who 've had experience in , and the same sort of thing happening in further education for instance , where immediately the assets , before even the regulations were put on the table , the assets of all these things were , all these er , erm , coll the further education colleges were frozen so we could n't do anything with them at all as an Authority , and er , actually many of them were taken from us without er , without any question at all . |
| 18 | The aim is that ratification and the Queen 's assent may take place at the same time . |
| 19 | This may take place during your stay and prior warning may not be given . |
| 20 | It seems that such a re-investigation may take place without negative implications . |
| 21 | With the pin correctly assembled into the hole then no interference exists , but touching may take place between any or all of the relating surfaces . |
| 22 | But there is no late date set into the legislation , only that ratification when it is required means that from the first of the following month then the elections on the new constituency boundaries may take place under the new er European rules so that a decision is of course for an election in June er is in fact needed by the first of May . |
| 23 | If these larger grains are platey or concavo-convex ( the radical grains of Vinopal & coogan , 1978 ) , brittle fracture may take place with continued increase of overburden pressure , resulting in destruction of the shelter porosity and tighter packing of the grains ( Fig. 5.17b ) . |
| 24 | Third , there may be very little activity at the summit crater , but the feeder pipe ( usually a dyke ) may branch off and most of the eruption may take place on the flanks of the volcano , with a small cone being built up , and lavas emerging from it . |
| 25 | It has been suggested that similar reactions may take place on background sulphate aerosols in the Antarctic stratosphere , but as yet there has been no unambiguous evidence for these reactions in the absence of polar stratospheric clouds ( although there have been observations of ozone loss attributed to volcanic aerosols ) . |
| 26 | ALL THE INFORMATION IN EATING AND DRINKING IN EDINBURGH IS AS ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE BUT THE PUBLISHERS CAN NOT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ERRORS OR CHANGES WHICH MAY TAKE PLACE AFTER GOING TO PRESS . |
| 27 | ALL THE INFORMATION IN THE EDINBURGH POCKET GUIDE IS AS ACCURATE AS POSSIBLE BUT THE PUBLISHERS CAN NOT ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANY ERRORS OR CHANGES WHICH MAY TAKE PLACE AFTER GOING TO PRESS . |
| 28 | One and the same practice may be performed by a nurturant or a hostile mother , may occur within an easygoing or a rigidly authoritarian home , or may take place against a background of love or of hate . |
| 29 | ‘ A magistrates ' court shall not try an information summarily or hear a complaint except when composed of at least two justices unless the trial or hearing is one that by virtue of any enactment may take place before a single justice . |
| 30 | Section 7 , both in subsections ( 4 ) and ( 5 ) , refers to ‘ a justice of the peace ; ’ consequently , the procedure under section 7(5) must come within the closing words of section 121(1) of the Act of 1980 , namely , that it is a hearing that by virtue of an enactment , namely the Bail Act 1976 , may take place before a single justice . |