Example sentences of "[verb] place [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He is leading an English team to compete in the first ever Irish staging of the Jack Charlton Trout Cup — an event which will take place at a lake near Bantry in County Cork on March 29 and 30 . |
| 32 | Such effects could take place at a number of different levels within the political system : an individual 's relationship to another could change as a result of the media just as an individual 's relationship to an institution could change as an outcome of media work , and so on . |
| 33 | The contradictions of the model help explain why the transition from Francoism to democracy did not take place by a process of radical ‘ rupture ’ , but through a more consensual evolution in which elements of the regime 's own institutions and key political figures played a central role . |
| 34 | This details the acceptable forms of the linking that can take place by a set of pointers relating elements and routes through the structure . |
| 35 | The reading of Scripture , preaching and prayers can take place in a variety of idioms , depending upon the circumstances . |
| 36 | Like the production of the Canterbury Tales two years ago , the action will take place in a marquee in St. Lawrence churchyard . |
| 37 | The Sheffield project will take place in a city with a declining manufacturing base , some moderate growth in the service sector and with similarities to many Northern cities . |
| 38 | The action must take place against a backdrop of some description , even if it it is a blank black curtain . |
| 39 | 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 . |
| 40 | Ford 's employees are also wont to point out that their mortgage payments have rocketed over the past year and negotiations will take place against a background in which interest rates seem to be moving in one direction only . |
| 41 | The present research takes the argument a stage further and investigates whether it is possible to predict the rate at which marriage between sets of ethnic groups will take place from a knowledge of the degree to which the groups are residentially intermixed . |
| 42 | Mr James Curtis , for the prosecution , told the court the stabbing took place during a row at the party held at Bream 's flat in January this year . |
| 43 | As the result of the demolition of the colleges of education in the 1970s and the mergers that took place between a number of colleges and polytechnics , the latter now have a major stake in teacher education . |
| 44 | Telford 's intensive subject assessment , co-ordinated in college by Fiona Baikie , took place over a fortnight at the end of November 1989 . |
| 45 | The rebuilding of the old manor took place over a period of about five years and was probably finished in about 1727 . |
| 46 | But the change was n't radical , it took place over a period of er I would suggest er maybe about six or seven years . |
| 47 | It has been widely argued ( but see later ) that within the lowland Neotropics , the fragmentation of populations took place as a result of climatic and associated vegetational changes in the last 2 million years . |
| 48 | Northgate Sports Centre , Ipswich , hosted the Amateur Fencing Association 's Eastern Section Ladies Epee competition took place with a field of quality entrants from all across the region . |
| 49 | Virtually nothing is known of Freeman 's early years ; he shrouded his early life in great mystery and even the details of his secondary schooling — which apparently took place at a boarding-school in north London — remained unknown to his closest relatives . |
| 50 | The conference took place at a time of great political turmoil , and there were calls for the resignation of President Collor and an end to corruption . |
| 51 | The session took place at a time of intense political debate in China , with Deng Xiaoping , the country 's " elder statesman " leader , leading a drive for the implementation of more fundamental economic reforms [ see pp. 38813-14 ; 38764 ; 38722 ] . |
| 52 | The Spanish Civil War took place at a time of growing tension in Europe , on account of the increasingly belligerent attitude of Hitler 's Germany and the less bellicose , but also expansionist , intentions of fascist Italy . |
| 53 | The incident took place at a house on Jerviston Street in New Stevenson at around eight o'clock last night . |
| 54 | The release of the Frenchmen , Jean-Louis Normandin and Roger Auque , by the Revolutionary Justice Organization on John 's birthday took place against a backdrop of bombings and embassy sieges in Paris and Teheran . |
| 55 | The congress took place against a backdrop of increasing diplomatic activity aimed at securing a ceasefire , involving both the United States and Soviet governments [ for recent progress towards a ceasefire agreement see p. 37842 ] . |
| 56 | These developments took place against a backdrop of a wider Europe which was changing rapidly as a result of superpower détente and the collapse of communist regimes in eastern Europe . |
| 57 | This took place against a backdrop of reports of executions of detainees , mass expulsions through force and intimidation , and other human rights violations , as armed groups attempted to establish facts on the ground which might become the basis for any future international negotiations over territory . |
| 58 | The talks took place against a background of continued military clashes . |
| 59 | The meeting took place against a background of disputes over ( i ) the extent to which whale populations had recovered to levels which permitted sustainable hunting ; ( ii ) the system by which hunting quotas might be determined ; and ( iii ) whether whale killing was inherently unethical . |
| 60 | These developments took place against a background of growing activism on the abortion issue in the country at large . |