Example sentences of "taking place [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The move towards NVQs and SVQs is taking place across all industries at all levels within the industry , from engineering and manufacturing through to the provision of health and social care , from the operative to the manager . |
| 2 | It is true to say that the ‘ reforms ’ have been taking place along several different tracks at the same time , and it would be simplistic to suppose that the single element called ‘ case management ’ could or should be expected to ‘ make the difference ’ in isolation from other aspects of the reforms . |
| 3 | ‘ The discussions have been taking place for such a long time that I rather got used to the idea that I should be leaving . |
| 4 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 5 | Britain would now be in the fortunate position of having had , in 1991 , nothing worse than a shallow and short-lived recession , from which a smart recovery would already have been taking place for several quarters , with no balance of payments constraint and little rise in unemployment . |
| 6 | At the time of writing negotiations are taking place for another Drummond locomotive to be at the show . |
| 7 | ‘ It needs to be worked through at local level and discussions will be taking place for some time , ’ said Mr Smith . |
| 8 | all present cordially approved of the Union taking place on that day . " |
| 9 | Planning has been taking place on this restructure for some months now with close liaison between RAFM and the Aircraft Salvage and Transportation Flight at Abingdon , who will be responsible for all of the dismantling and moving of the airframes . |
| 10 | Look I can not conceive of development taking place on this land without coming into conflict with those policies . |
| 11 | Whether the tour ( which overrides a ban on loans in Barnes 's will and was shepherded through the courts by the National Gallery 's director emeritus , J. Carter Brown , and the wealthy collector Walter Annenberg ; see The Art Newspaper No. 15 , February 1992 , p.1 ) should be taking place at all remains a matter of debate . |
| 12 | That the programme was taking place at all was an amazing thing in itself , but when I heard people in the studio audience talking of the need to sacrifice the hostages now for the sake of others in the future , just as they had in Day to Day nine months previously , I wondered why so few people seemed to share my view that we were being duped into believing that teaching the terrorists a lesson was the sole issue . |
| 13 | Even though school generated activities are not taking place at these times judgements are made about the standard of work on display and the general state of order and cleanliness . |
| 14 | The example also illustrates the influence of technology — now that data is easily transferred electronically , typesetting and printing of newspapers is often carried out in different places , with printing taking place at several locations . |
| 15 | A Year at Saltram portrays the enormous varieties of activities taking place at this eighteenth-century house , from concerts and cocktail parties to visitors admiring the statues ( see below ) . |
| 16 | More seriously , it is quite unlikely that the actions of any single archbishop could greatly alter the course or speed of the realignment of secular and ecclesiastical power which was taking place at this time . |
| 17 | Certainly a slight shift of emphasis was taking place during this time — so that , for instance , it was recognised scientific and technological developments , but , it was assumed , in different ways and for different reasons from boys . |
| 18 | A 76-page directory to more than 600 events and attractions taking place during this year 's seven month long festival is now available free from tourist information centres , public libraries and the festival office in Newtown . |
| 19 | Some of the bitterest fighting during the last nine months has been taking place between these two factions in and around Mogadishu , particularly since November 1991 , with neither yet gaining control . |
| 20 | As we shall see , a similar debate is taking place amongst those who are trying to link long waves to theories of geographical change . |
| 21 | In Zimbabwe today , education must fundamentally orient itself towards the revolutionary transformation now taking place in many spheres of our society . |
| 22 | Some , through their contact with the various women 's organizations , are aware of these problems and believe that change is already taking place in many very positive ways . |
| 23 | Creative and productive thinking was taking place in many authorities right across the political spectrum , while the relationship between councillors , officials and the public was changing . |
| 24 | In the world of youth or pop culture , Britain , without reaching the frenetic heights of the years of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones in the sixties , remained a market leader , with rock festivals taking place in such unlikely locations as Windsor Great Park and Stonehenge . |
| 25 | Are there events taking place that we will never ever see because they 're so far away , or maybe they 're taking place in such a way that they 're moving away faster than the light is travelling in our direction ? |
| 26 | This publication sets out to remedy that fault and also offers important information about relevant educational changes taking place in all schools , which affects your child . |
| 27 | Now the blue flames are What 's happening is this , there 's two reactions taking place in that coke fire . |
| 28 | Whereas do situates the infinitive in a stretch of time in the past or non-past as something really existing or taking place in that time-stretch , the modals in ( 4 ) — ( 6 ) on the other hand situate the infinitive 's event merely as something which has certain chances of existing in the stretch of time which they express . |
| 29 | There 'll be overnight work taking place in that area , both ways between junctions fourteen and fifteen , Heathrow and the M four , that 's between nine pm tonight and six am tomorrow morning ; there 'll be outside lane closures for lighting repairs . |
| 30 | No one need quarrel with the improvements that are taking place in these directions . ’ |