Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] place [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The L1 protein shows a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activities in vitro , and its putative anti-proliferative properties are interesting in relation to the immunosuppression postulated to take place in lamina propria . |
| 2 | Bilateral talks did take place between Israel and Syria , and between Israel and Lebanon . |
| 3 | Nevertheless liaison did take place with CAB specialist welfare rights units . |
| 4 | The world was created ; man and woman were made in God 's image ; the fall did take place in time . |
| 5 | The Council will be particularly interested in pilot proposals which further enhance the Development Programme rather than simply duplicate the work of either the 1988 pilots or central developments planned to take place during session 1988–89 . |
| 6 | The USSR Supreme Soviet on March 21 adopted a decree asking the Moscow city soviet to ban mass demonstrations planned to take place in Moscow on March 28 . |
| 7 | The incidents occurred ahead of demonstrations planned to take place in Yerevan to mark the anniversary on May 28 of the proclamation of Armenia 's brief independence in 1918-21 , and tensions were already high in Yerevan . |
| 8 | Improvements in the general conditions of blacks had taken place between Johnson 's era , when white supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan articulated deeply-held sentiments , when at least three hundred and fifty blacks were illegally lynched and mixed marriages were forbidden , and that of Ali , when conflict manifested itself in the Watts riots and radicalism came in the form of the black power movements . |
| 9 | Some of the transactions the Crown sought to rely on were not at arm 's length and might therefore be of no assistance , but there might be other transactions which had taken place between parties who were genuinely trying to strike an open market value , and there was no reason why such cases should be ignored . |
| 10 | He was convicted of the lesser charge by a jury , with the addition that the assault had taken place under provocation . |
| 11 | But they provide an accurate picture of what had taken place under Justinian . |
| 12 | However , on Dec. 19 Pinochet called a full army alert , in a show of force ; when the alert was called off 18 hours later , Patricio Rojas Saavedra , the Defence Minister , announced on television that no negotiations had taken place over Pinochet 's retirement . |
| 13 | In the first place , since little research had taken place outside London , we chose to investigate a provincial city . |
| 14 | The American botanist Asa Gray ( 1810–88 ) adopted a less extravagant view , preferring to believe that the migration had taken place across Asia . |
| 15 | President Bush for his part stressed the importance of progress under the bilateral Structural Impediments Initiative ( SII ) talks , the third round of which had taken place on Feb. 22-23 between US and Japanese trade officials , but which had so far produced little concrete progress toward the elimination of what the USA termed Japan 's unfair import barriers . |
| 16 | But the tension in the atmosphere had nothing to do with the events which had taken place on board earlier that day . |
| 17 | Both Vietnamese and Chinese diplomats confirmed in mid-September that a secret summit meeting had taken place on Sept. 3-4 . |
| 18 | On Oct. 18 , at peace conference talks in The Hague [ for third session , on Sept. 19 , see p. 38421 ; the second session had taken place on Sept. 12 ] , the EC proposed a plan for the future structure of Yugoslavia , loosely based on its own structure . |
| 19 | A general amnesty in East Germany had taken place on Dec. 6 , 1989 [ see p. 36963 for limited October 1989 amnesty ] . |
| 20 | You will recall that the background to the decision was previous arrangements whereby closures of certain departments had taken place on days during the festive season to avoid the opening and heating of buildings for one or two days in a week with a large number of staff members taking annual leave on these days . |
| 21 | UDI had been declared in November 1965 and an official meeting had taken place on HMS Tiger in December 1966 which had been a fiasco . |
| 22 | The snatch had taken place at Greenwich Village 's Café à Go Go and it was Wilcock and fellow Voice journalist Nat Hentoff who provided the backbone of the ‘ Emergency Committee Against the Harassment of Lennie Bruce ’ . |
| 23 | This had taken place at Cul Dreimne , now in County Sligo . |
| 24 | In the meantime , a further development had taken place at Derek 's home . |
| 25 | In other words these legal rules simply reflect the agreement the parties would have reached if bargaining on these questions had taken place at arm 's length . |
| 26 | Ten years earlier , on 19 May 1364 , the coronation of Charles V had taken place at Reims cathedral . |
| 27 | One meeting had taken place with Mrs Shephard 's predecessor , Michael Howard , in January , the committee was told . |
| 28 | However , he telephoned from Kigali on Saturday to say that they had been taken out through the area in which the fighting had taken place without mishap . |
| 29 | Israel denied , however , that it was responsible for activities which had taken place in Khiam . |
| 30 | ‘ If it had taken place in London or New York I would have simply bawled at him to get lost . |