Example sentences of "[pron] took place [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides a number of activities which took place at a regional level , many more were carried on throughout the year by its corporate and personal members . |
| 2 | Unlike the 1991 Rugby World Cup , which took place over a whole month , not to mention the three months build-up , thereby allowing the sponsors to develop their marketing strategy over a long period of time , the World Sevens tournament is a three-day event , with the commercial potential of a ‘ Market blink ’ , as he puts it . |
| 3 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |
| 4 | Rather than dampen the festivities , the storm initiated a whole new cycle of tumult with ensuing days and nights of ritual cockfighting which took place beneath a hastily assembled palm-thatched enclosure in the centre of the Rante , observable by the throng from the protection of the slanting gables of the surrounding houses . |
| 5 | The pre-tests served to iron out anomalies , facilitated the development of a coding frame ( which allowed the raw data to be analysed using the Minitab Statistical package on the Brighton Polytechnic Vax computer ) , and prepared the ground for the pilot study which took place in a neighbouring health authority . |
| 6 | A sale in the City of London by a member of the public to a shopkeeper would not satisfy this requirement and nor would a sale which took place in a private part of the shop , Hargreave v. Spink ( 1892 Q.B. ) . |
| 7 | By the death , at the age of 66 , of Mr. Philip Henry Thomas which took place after a long illness , on Saturday the 18th instant , at his residence at 13 Rusham Road , Battersea loses a citizen who has been active for 40 years in championing the cause of Liberalism in this borough … . |
| 8 | Mr Connor , of Tressel Drive , Sutton Manor , St Helens , suffered burns to his arms in the rescue , which took place after a crash on the A49 near Leominster , Hereford and Worcestershire , on Monday . |
| 9 | Her parting from him took place in a field of buttercups and small cows ; they had gone there together on their bicycles one hot afternoon , she with the intention of reading her book , and he with the intention of persuading her to remove as many of her clothes as possible . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Furthermore , national liberation could only be supported if it took place in a revolutionary way ( as Marx had argued on Germany and therefore gone on to oppose Bismarck 's route to German unity ) , not leaving ‘ intact the foundations of the power of the ruling class ’ . |
| 12 | Manchester/Liverpool rivalry aside , the meeting was important because it took place in a magazine which is a vehicle for the Spandaus , Durans and Marilyns of this world to say ‘ Hey look at me . |
| 13 | The action that followed was one of the most bizarre that sailing-ships ever fought , for it took place in a November gale that might well have put the whole of both fleets on to the rocks , but it was a complete defeat for the French who lost nine ships while the British lost only two . |
| 14 | The result was a considerable achievement since it took place against a background of strong competition in mature markets and overcapacity in the European agricultural sector . |