Example sentences of "[verb] place in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Communication between cells takes place in a limited number of ways . |
| 2 | You mentioned boxing and that 's a sort of legitimate violence which takes place in a limited area and which people watch because presumably they enjoy it , but do n't wish to particularly partake in themselves , and whereas it 's all right for people to punch each other 's heads in the boxing ring , they would object to people coming outside the boxing ring and punching the spectators ' heads . |
| 3 | It is specious to claim , as some do , that there is interaction between text and reader comparable to what takes place in a conversational exchange . |
| 4 | Tending takes place in a wide variety of households , characterised by different family structures and by widely different experiences in terms of family relationships and life patterns . |
| 5 | ‘ Where an unconstitutional change of regime takes place in a recognised state , governments of other states must necessarily consider what dealings , if any , they should have with the new regime , and whether and to what extent it qualifies to be treated as the government of the state concerned . |
| 6 | None of his eighteen novels takes place in a Catholic milieu . |
| 7 | Examination of the school 's practices takes place in a planned approach over a number of years . |
| 8 | Certainly , that movement of mind normally takes place in a bounded framework of study , i.e. the student 's ‘ course ’ . |
| 9 | Policy formulation takes place in a theoretical , social , economic and political context . |
| 10 | Once play activity becomes formalized , directed , structured by rules , and it takes place in a defined space ( ‘ field of play ’ ) , it moves into the related but distinct area of games . |
| 11 | Yet one may imagine that the dinner-party takes place in a large house , and that in another room the ladies are engaged in their own conversations . |
| 12 | The show takes place in a large tent that seats 100 to 150 people . |
| 13 | Despite its title , the Public Order Act creates some offences which apply whether the conduct takes place in a public or a private place . |
| 14 | In learning sign language the opportunities for doing this are relatively few , and so sign language learning takes place in a less than ideal environment . |
| 15 | As I have emphasised above , what we think of as ‘ scientific ’ endeavour takes place in a social context , within institutions and ideologies which are not themselves necessarily committed to ‘ scientific ’ thought or logic . |
| 16 | Furthermore , although this action takes place in a local congregation , it is the worship of the whole people of God — the living and the dead , the Church militant and triumphant , for together they constitute the body of Christ . |
| 17 | If an incident takes place in a local GP 's surgery , you should complain to the local Family Practitioner Committee , whose number will be in the Yellow Pages . |
| 18 | And believe me , I , when I mean zoom , the whole thing takes place in a tenth of a second . |
| 19 | Die Entführung ( also known as The Seraglio ) takes place in a Turkish harem , and concerns the efforts of Belmonte , a Spanish nobleman , to rescue his beloved Constanze , who has been captured by pirates and sold to the Pasha Selim along with her English maid , Blondchen , and Belmonte 's servant , Pedrillo ( who are , naturally , also in love with each other ) . |
| 20 | It is difficult to research as it is behaviour which takes place in a domestic setting involving powerless people . |
| 21 | This can be done only if gas exchange takes place in an internal lung , to which air flow can be controlled . |
| 22 | When life brings them into touch again twenty years later , and they are hopelessly in love , a climactic scene takes place in an inferior tea-shop which they visit during a furtive day together in London . |
| 23 | Personally I think whoever wrote the prospectus of Kidminster Green should be taken to court and charged with ‘ Gross Deceit of Parents and Pupils ’ because what actually takes place in the first twenty minutes of the school day bears absolutely no relation to what the prospectus claims should happen . |
| 24 | Imprinting usually takes place in the first few days after birth . |
| 25 | This is partly because , as indicated earlier , the acquisition of the superego takes place in the modern individual in a different sequence of stages than it did in the culture , and partly because cultural psychological phenomena often present a clearly separated-out picture of their components whereas individual neuroses are often less easy to disentangle . |
| 26 | The room areas in this block are fairly quiet and most of the action takes place in the cavern-like bar which provides a cool focus out of the sun and is equipped with pool tables and video machines . |
| 27 | The discussion customarily takes place in the early evening in the Home Secretary 's room at the Commons , and is intended to keep him in touch with backbench opinion . |
| 28 | Her acceptance as a full member nation is expected to take place at the ITF 's Annual General Meeting , which takes place in the Dominican Republic in September . |
| 29 | Since speech takes place in the wider context of non-verbal behaviour , we also need to understand the relationship between the speech mechanisms and the other mechanisms in the brain . |
| 30 | Learning a language is essentially an individual process , but typically it takes place in the social context of the classroom . |