Example sentences of "[vb -s] place [prep] a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 A typical road accident involving children takes place on a Friday in winter — and boys are more vulnerable than girls .
2 The ‘ video conference ’ then takes place for a fee of between £80 and £120 for half an hour .
3 It shows that pre-modern power takes place via a set of unmediated exchanges between subjects , while modern power stems from a relationship between fields ( whose symbolic economy imparts to them their structure ) and the ‘ consumer ’ who is subject to this power .
4 The VDU interface exploits the full screen display techniques possible with the VDU , so that all interaction takes place via a series of display pages .
5 All LIFESPAN user interaction takes place via a series of display pages on a terminal .
6 The festival , organise din association with XFM radio and Riverman concerts , takes place at a series of London venues .
7 The result is that melting takes place over a range of temperatures , and this range is a useful indication of sample crystallinity .
8 Centrepiece of the design is the tall , rectangular flat diaphragm , which , produces all the treble information , and the midband area above 200Hz ( in fact there 's a slow handover which takes place over a matter of octaves ) .
9 As weak springs can only stored a fraction of the potential energy that a strong spring can hold , the remainder is lost as heat and if the change from a strong to a weak spring takes place over a period of time , equivalent to the observation time , then the energy loss is detected as mechanical damping .
10 Instead , a number of small changes in status and recognitions of the progress towards adult status takes place over a number of years .
11 Transformation of individual structures , as he puts it , does take place directly through participation in the communal life of the sangha , and transformation of social structures takes place as a result of the interaction of the life of the sangha with the life of the community surrounding it .
12 Learning takes place as a result of these conversations .
13 Given that the first best solution of achieving SEM type trade liberalisation on a global basis is not possible because of very large economic and political problems , the second best SEM programme may not be harmful to world trade providing that an expansion in world trade takes place as a result of this programme .
14 The de-skilling takes place as a result of part programming , the process by which the desired NC motions are converted to finished tapes .
15 Since user education takes place in a variety of libraries , often at different educational levels , the potential for full co-operation across different environments is limited , and for effective co-ordination the potential is less promising .
16 International borrowing nowadays takes place in a world of moving exchange rates .
17 Credit pre-screening takes place in a number of ways now .
18 This is because the reaction , like most other reactions , takes place in a number of steps .
19 This reduction of carbon dioxide to carbohydrates takes place in a series of small steps , a metabolic pathway ( the sequence of steps ) .
20 All teaching takes place in a context of opportunity and constraint .
21 Ageing takes place in a context of formal and informal relationships : in the family , friendship network , club , waiting room and street .
22 The transmission begins to cut off when ο reaches and , as depicted in figure 8.4(b) , an accompanying change in phase shift φ from about zero to a lag of about 90° takes place within a decade of pulsatance either side of .
23 A child 's development always takes place within a context of contemporaneous events , the most important of which result from the parents ' activities .
24 But all this takes place within a context of direction .
25 The development takes place against a backdrop of increasing environmental pressures , with Germany leading the way in Europe , to eliminate chromate primers .
26 If the rise in real output takes place against a background of a tight money or explicit ‘ monetarist ’ policy , there will be downward pressure on the inflation rate and an already attractive package is further enhanced .
27 The upsurge in quarrying takes place against a background of increased poaching and harvesting of forest produce , while hundreds of people who had been moved out of the park in the past are now starting to return .
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