Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] place [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The action took place before a huge blown-up head and shoulders image of Carmen . |
| 2 | The most notorious confrontation took place around a coking plant at Orgreave , near Sheffield . |
| 3 | The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish . |
| 4 | The transfer took place during a natural cycle , and , to date , the pregnancy has gone smoothly . |
| 5 | The test took place in a unique setting : the top deck of an old Bembridge pilot cutter , now the Essex YC 's clubhouse ; this provided a reasonably open setting with little wind shadow . |
| 6 | The investigation took place in a psychiatric unit in a general hospital , where a multidisciplinary team of nurses , social workers , psychiatrists , and general practice trainees is involved in the psychiatric management of attempted suicide patients ( Hawton et al. 1979 ) . |
| 7 | It is thus believed by Catholic conservatives to be not by chance that the incarnation took place in a male human person . |
| 8 | The launch to our own salesforce took place on a regional basis during early October . |
| 9 | The no confidence debate took place in a crowded Knesset on March 15 . |
| 10 | The printing of De revolutionibus took place during a tense period when the freedom of Protestants and the independence of Nuremberg were being threatened by Catholic authorities . |
| 11 | This impressive growth took place despite a significant reduction in capital allowances — which took away some of the benefits of leasing , the introduction of an accounting standard ( SSAP 21 ) requiring lessees to capitalise finance leases and , of course , the longest recession in post-war history . |
| 12 | These are not , however , the same kind of truth ; for the first holds for all time and every place , whereas the second has to do with a specific event which as a matter of fact took place at a particular point in history . |
| 13 | The luncheon took place in a giant marquee with windows looking out across the polo field . |
| 14 | Filming took place in a Victorian house in Shepherd 's Bush ; the back of it was used as the production office and the front of it for filming . |