Example sentences of "[noun] can [adv] take place " in BNC.

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1 For without an excitation of lust , or the enjoyment of pleasure in the venereal act , no conception can probably take place .
2 Notice that the buying and selling of units can only take place between the trust and the original purchaser .
3 That question was thought to have been partially settled by the House of Lords in United Scientific Holdings Ltd v Burnley BC [ 1978 ] AC 904 where it was held that prima facie time limits are not of the essence , with the result that if a time limit is missed the review can still take place .
4 Although welding can again take place , the diffusion law ( equation 12.7 ) is now altered .
5 Mining can only take place where the commodity is available , although transport of and returns on the exploited material will always dictate if resources are mined or not , together with whether people think the resources important or not .
6 But a crucial difference in the case of cricket is that the consultation process can only take place off the field .
7 With the benefit of fifteen years ’ experience and from the security of a university in Britain , it is possible to pronounce with considerable confidence upon what should have happened ; to comment owlishly on how untidy and illogical were the processes employed , how more information should have been spelt out with more precision , how more evaluation should have been undertaken sooner , how unreal were our expectations in terms of how quickly and how evenly changes can effectively take place .
8 Therefore a certain amount of matching can always take place : contracts to buy can always be matched with contracts to sell .
9 Error comes in if one over-interprets the relevance of these conclusions , by forgetting the artificial constraints of the experiment and instead assuming that in real life , outside the laboratory so to say , such changes involving only a single variable can actually take place ; that it is a simple matter to extrapolate back from the artificiality of laboratory isolation to the complex , rich interconnectedness of the real world .
10 Changing the patterns of our social performance can only take place from within our own selves , and through our own volition .
11 Russell Thersby , the IOD 's NW branch chairman , representing more than 600 business leaders in the region , said of the vote : ‘ It 's good news , the committee stage can now start and analysis of the treaty can finally take place .
12 But this can not be the whole story , for David Rhodes and others have discovered that this communication can even take place from tree to tree , where there is no root or other physical contact .
13 A transfer of a licence can only take place during its currency ( for which see s.30 ) .
14 ( ii ) Modernization can only take place through struggles .
15 Thus , if the enzymic component is sequestered in a cellular-subcellular location , access to substrate can only take place via lipid bilayers .
16 It is obvious that we should have talks but I am not willing to be told that the talks can only take place at one location and I am not willing to accept an invitation to a slanging match .
17 The Government Railway Inspector was generally satisfied with the trials , and public steam runs can now take place for the centenary of the MER next year .
18 Fertilization can then take place and the first cell divisions can occur .
19 For even the most primitive practices are dependent upon a certain amount of theory , and even the most ‘ theoretical ’ activities can only take place within practices .
20 In ( 183 ) and ( 184 ) , similarly , it is clear that the effort to mentally blot something out of existence can only take place while it is still in existence , that is , before the state of non-existence into which one is trying to project it .
21 IT is heartening to see that in the wake of Glasgow 1990 and despite increasing difficulties in funding , large scale multi-media events can still take place .
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