Example sentences of "[vb past] place [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term ‘ local state ’ gained critical acceptance and helped place on a new conceptual stage the mass of research and political activity that had gathered around local , or community , politics since the late 1960s. for those on the radical left , the state , and of course the local state , came to be seen as a site of competing political interests rather than as a neutral set of administrative institutions . |
| 2 | The printing of De revolutionibus took place during a tense period when the freedom of Protestants and the independence of Nuremberg were being threatened by Catholic authorities . |
| 3 | The transfer took place during a natural cycle , and , to date , the pregnancy has gone smoothly . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Unlike the 1991 Rugby World Cup , which took place over a whole month , not to mention the three months build-up , thereby allowing the sponsors to develop their marketing strategy over a long period of time , the World Sevens tournament is a three-day event , with the commercial potential of a ‘ Market blink ’ , as he puts it . |
| 6 | This impressive growth took place despite a significant reduction in capital allowances — which took away some of the benefits of leasing , the introduction of an accounting standard ( SSAP 21 ) requiring lessees to capitalise finance leases and , of course , the longest recession in post-war history . |
| 7 | The talks took place as a new union study suggested that it would cost more in the long-term to close pits than to keep most of them open . |
| 8 | Besides a number of activities which took place at a regional level , many more were carried on throughout the year by its corporate and personal members . |
| 9 | These are not , however , the same kind of truth ; for the first holds for all time and every place , whereas the second has to do with a specific event which as a matter of fact took place at a particular point in history . |
| 10 | The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish . |
| 11 | King Edward visited several times when shooting parties and other entertaining took place on a lavish scale . |
| 12 | The great bulk of population movement occurred independently of Moscow in the years 1917–22 , but after the end of NEP it was to be strictly enforced , and took place on a vast scale again . |
| 13 | The launch to our own salesforce took place on a regional basis during early October . |
| 14 | This was done most dramatically and ruthlessly in Latin America , e.g. in Mexico under Juarez in the 1860s or in Bolivia under the dictator Melgarejo ( 1866–71 ) , but it also took place on a large scale in Spain after the revolution of 1854 , in Italy after the unification of the country under the liberal institutions of Piedmont , and wherever else economic and legal liberalism triumphed . |
| 15 | In earlier days , a secondary attraction brought the crowds : brass band concerts and contests regularly took place on a green sward at the entrance to the glen leading to the waterfall , the acoustics being excellent . |
| 16 | The action took place before a huge blown-up head and shoulders image of Carmen . |
| 17 | By the death , at the age of 66 , of Mr. Philip Henry Thomas which took place after a long illness , on Saturday the 18th instant , at his residence at 13 Rusham Road , Battersea loses a citizen who has been active for 40 years in championing the cause of Liberalism in this borough … . |
| 18 | The most notorious confrontation took place around a coking plant at Orgreave , near Sheffield . |
| 19 | Filming took place in a Victorian house in Shepherd 's Bush ; the back of it was used as the production office and the front of it for filming . |
| 20 | It is thus believed by Catholic conservatives to be not by chance that the incarnation took place in a male human person . |
| 21 | A sale in the City of London by a member of the public to a shopkeeper would not satisfy this requirement and nor would a sale which took place in a private part of the shop , Hargreave v. Spink ( 1892 Q.B. ) . |
| 22 | Furthermore , national liberation could only be supported if it took place in a revolutionary way ( as Marx had argued on Germany and therefore gone on to oppose Bismarck 's route to German unity ) , not leaving ‘ intact the foundations of the power of the ruling class ’ . |
| 23 | The no confidence debate took place in a crowded Knesset on March 15 . |
| 24 | The pre-tests served to iron out anomalies , facilitated the development of a coding frame ( which allowed the raw data to be analysed using the Minitab Statistical package on the Brighton Polytechnic Vax computer ) , and prepared the ground for the pilot study which took place in a neighbouring health authority . |
| 25 | In south Korea the preparations for the elections took place in a tempestuous , acrimonious atmosphere . |
| 26 | The test took place in a unique setting : the top deck of an old Bembridge pilot cutter , now the Essex YC 's clubhouse ; this provided a reasonably open setting with little wind shadow . |
| 27 | The investigation took place in a psychiatric unit in a general hospital , where a multidisciplinary team of nurses , social workers , psychiatrists , and general practice trainees is involved in the psychiatric management of attempted suicide patients ( Hawton et al. 1979 ) . |
| 28 | The luncheon took place in a giant marquee with windows looking out across the polo field . |
| 29 | No members of the 4th or 5th generations are yet affected , though males and females of the 4th generation have now reached adulthood and will soon reach the youngest age at which the first operation took place in an affected family member . |
| 30 | The troubles at York and Scarborough , already mentioned , took place in an urban environment , and very conspicuous in the troubles was the city of London . |