Example sentences of "[noun pl] take place [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 As a result , the purchaser can now be held responsible for all dismissal claims by employees dismissed in connection with the sale even if the dismissals took place at a time earlier than literally " immediately before " the transfer .
2 If the treatment sessions take place in a large gymnasium , for instance , the physiotherapist will screen off a section of the space for greater privacy , and so that the patient is not distracted by seeing what is going on around him .
3 At Lindholme prison in Doncaster , once-weekly two-hour sessions take place in a room that has been made available within the library and comfortably furnished with easy chairs and a coffee table .
4 The more normal situation is for every exchange of words to take place in a context which allows the verbal activity to be associated with other kinds of activity and other kinds of message .
5 Again , I urge the House to consider the fact that we expect inspections of individual schools to take place on a four to five-yearly basis .
6 For older individuals , these experiences took place in a world which was very different from the one in which we now live .
7 Violence in the Transvaal townships in August and September reached its worst point on Sept. 12-13 , when 50 died in riots in Thokoza township and an indiscriminate massacre of commuters took place on a Johannesburg-Soweto train .
8 The celebrations took place in a stadium and were presided over by Izzat Ibrahim al-Dhouri , vice chairman of the ruling Revolution Command Council , a lanky man in his sixties with a face like a skull .
9 As I have already observed , issues surrounding the identification and causes of child abuse tend to be dominated by medicine and psychology , and the management of child abuse cases takes place within a legal framework .
10 Transformation of individual structures , as he puts it , does take place directly through participation in the communal life of the sangha , and transformation of social structures takes place as a result of the interaction of the life of the sangha with the life of the community surrounding it .
11 For example , medical explanations of the ‘ blues ’ tend to favour as the principal causative element biochemical changes taking place in a woman 's body during pregnancy and immediately after birth .
12 This is but a small selection of events and festivals taking place in a few of our worldwide destinations — an ideal and enjoyable way to appreciate the culture and local traditions in each country .
13 The thefts took place within a 24 hour period .
14 Cross-sectional studies take place at a single point of time ( although the ‘ point ’ may in practice cover several months ) .
15 It has been widely argued ( but see later ) that within the lowland Neotropics , the fragmentation of populations took place as a result of climatic and associated vegetational changes in the last 2 million years .
16 But despite intervention and interest rate adjustments , it has been necessary for realignments of exchange rates to take place on a frequent basis .
17 Altogether , tutorials take place over a period of about twenty-four weeks in the last year of a course , and usually by the last twelve tutorials a student has a much clearer idea of what he or she is about .
18 Although discussions took place about a possible return to the former scale of activity , Newlove 's health did not improve and he was physically limited to Wells where either One-Year or Terminal courses continued until 1934 when the WEA branch became inactive .
19 The combination of a higher activity of calcium in bile and precipitation of bile salts taking place at a lower pH in patients with gall stone disease than in patients without gall stones suggests a major role for calcium and pH in the pathogenesis of gall stones .
20 These developments took place against a background of growing activism on the abortion issue in the country at large .
21 These developments took place against a backdrop of a wider Europe which was changing rapidly as a result of superpower détente and the collapse of communist regimes in eastern Europe .
22 These developments took place against a background of continuing clashes between government forces and UNITA , with a number of reports suggesting that the government had launched a major offensive .
23 At times urban policy debates take place in a context where almost all agree that the wrong answers are being offered to the wrong questions .
24 Iron fittings could replace wooden components gradually , allowing major alterations to take place over a long period .
25 A typical road accident involving children takes place on a Friday in winter — and boys are more vulnerable than girls .
26 This is meaningful conversation between missing links took place after a rapid .
27 If money wage negotiations took place at a highly centralized level , with trades union leaders bargaining over the general level of wages , workers should be indifferent as between reductions in W and increases in P in effecting a given reduction in the real wage rate .
28 The two provincial elections took place against a background of public opinion polls showing PCP federal Prime Minister Brian Mulroney 's standing with the electorate dropping to the lowest for any prime minister in the history of Canadian opinion polling .
29 In south Korea the preparations for the elections took place in a tempestuous , acrimonious atmosphere .
30 Children 's activities are also a high priority , with art workshops and dance courses taking place on a regular basis .
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