Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] place [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The name change was necessary , it was argued , because the original name referred to a single event that had taken place over a decade previously , that it gave the wrong image , and did n't properly describe the work being done by the organisation . |
| 2 | The article included quotes from Leslie Silver and a Lazio ‘ source ’ stating that negotiations had taken place through an intermediary . |
| 3 | Discreet contacts had taken place since an unpublicized trip to Nairobi in January by the Foreign Minister , Roelof " Pik " Botha . |
| 4 | If Gregory 's ordering of events here is right , and there are no means of testing this part of his account , then the last years of Clovis 's reign were concerned with the internal power politics of the Franks , whereas much of his earlier activity had taken place on an international stage . |
| 5 | The purchaser may be tempted to take a stance it might not have chosen if the same negotiations had taken place at a later stage . |
| 6 | Questioned by Paul Cullen , prosecuting , the girl said the offences had taken place at a house where she had stayed with her parents and at her grandmother 's house . |
| 7 | The wrath of her disappointment had been the instrument of his education , which had taken place in a perpetual rush from site to site of a hastily amalgamated three-school comprehensive , the Aneurin Bevan school , combining Glasdale Old Grammar School , St Thomas à Beckett 's C of E Secondary School and the Clothiers ' Guild Technical Modern School . |
| 8 | A pity about that Dutchman : their union had taken place in a narrow cabin on the North Sea , crossing from The Hague to Harwich in a Force Nine gale , and they had omitted to exchange names and addresses . |
| 9 | The ceremony had taken place in a register office as both families were agnostic . |
| 10 | The talent contest had taken place in a marquee . |
| 11 | The talks had taken place in a remarkably cordial atmosphere , and at a joint press conference at their conclusion on May 4 , de Klerk declared that he regarded the working document [ see below ] as " an important breakthrough in the peaceful process " , while Mandela said that as a result " not only are we closer to one another , but we are all of us victors " . |
| 12 | They wanted progress , but preferred to believe that the advances had taken place by a series of discrete steps , each too large to be compatible with any form of natural development . |
| 13 | Yet the development of the law of trusts had taken place within a period in which it alone could offer these advantages ; to them its rise owed much . |
| 14 | It had to take place over a long period , in the face of a prodigious number of uncontrolled variables which were likely to confuse the outcome . |
| 15 | We should not , however , imagine that such exchange activities had to take place in a permanently occupied urban settlement . |
| 16 | ‘ He sent a message to the governor explaining that the thefts continued to take place at a time when the firm had transferred me to England for a period of six months . |