Example sentences of "[vb base] place [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 these considerations have produced provisions governing events which take place during the interim period which are to say the least of it , complicated .
2 This lapse from tradition revitalised the proceedings which take place during the whole day .
3 Internal histological changes , comparable to those occurring in exopterygotes , take place during the prepupal period and the wing-rudiment becomes pushed out of its pocket and comes to lie just beneath the cuticle .
4 Machine Knitting classes in Northumberland take place at the following times and venues .
5 And yet we often find that examinations take place at the very time of year when there is most likelihood of a heatwave .
6 In Delhi , marriages take place over the entire length of the cold season .
7 In many cases imports and exports take place between the different branches of international firms ; they occur within firms rather than between them .
8 The President is elected by direct popular vote for a five-year term at the same time as elections take place to the 120-member National Assembly .
9 Labels such as ‘ mono-hierarchical ’ , ‘ mono-organizational ’ , ‘ USSR Incorporated ’ ( Meyer 1965 ) , the ‘ organizational society ’ , the ‘ command society ’ ( Rigby 1964 ) and the ‘ administered society ’ ( Kassof 1964 ) are used , implying that the political conflicts and struggles over resources , status and power that take place within the communist state are analogous to those experienced within large corporations .
10 But it is clear that if , as we have said , death from suicide is relatively common in Britain and most funeral services take place within the Christian context , then it would seem that the church needs to look at this whole subject again with a great deal more openness than has been possible up to now .
11 Fewer requests for confirming analysis take place from the conceptual end , but a greater number are initiated through the scheming process which has gradually taken over from the conceptual phase as the main centre of the design work .
12 Now the one thing that I think is important is that one can not look at the problems of any given society in the world in isolation from the rest of the world as a whole , and in particular , in the case of underdeveloped countries , their problems are very much linked to the situations that take place in the developed countries .
13 Emblematic of the limited but crucial shift the fabliaux make use of from a thoroughly familiar world to one that is somewhat different is the extent to which the stories take place in the deep darkness of the medieval French night : as , for instance , all the tit-for-tat stealing and impersonation of Barat et Haimet .
14 FAST thought that " economics " would determine which biotechnological substitutions take place in the chemical industry .
15 ‘ If there is confidence in the reliability of informal administrative fact-finding activities that take place in the early stages of the criminal process , the remaining stages of the process can be relatively perfunctory without any loss in operating efficiency .
16 These take place in the real world and those involved do not know that an experiment is being conducted .
17 Notice also how all the additions take place in the left-hand half of this 2n-bit register .
18 Other interesting changes take place in the segmental muscles of the abdomen of Rhodnius , which undergo periodic regressive and regenerative changes associated with the moulting cycle ( Wigglesworth , 1956 ; Toselli and Pepe , 1968 ) .
19 As capitalism deepens , modifications take place in the informal sector , which in general take the form of an increased articulation between the formal and informal sectors .
20 Chapman Pincher ( ‘ Reeling over a savage blow ’ , 13 March ) has directed timely attention to those obscene and gravely damaging practices still endorsed by the Agriculture and Fisheries Minister , John Gummer , and Whitehall , and which take place in the coastal waters from East Anglia to Northumberland , the north-east drift-nets .
21 Many other changes take place in the declining forests .
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