Example sentences of "take place [be] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What took place was a widening and deepening of consumption so that goods previously confined to the wealthier classes came to be purchased next by the middle-income ranks and then , to some degree , by the lower . |
| 2 | The grimmer tone of government was set by the new head of the Third Section , P. A. Shuvalov : typical of the ministerial changes which took place was the replacement of A. V. Golovnin , the liberally minded Minister of Education , by the notoriously reactionary Dmitrii Tolstoy . |
| 3 | The other change which took place was the growth of a minority who went on to take advantage of new opportunities to get a university degree . |
| 4 | Usually , only when very dangerous activities , such as live ammunition training , are taking place are the public barred from the area . |
| 5 | Others argue that what is taking place is the withdrawal of ‘ extraordinary means for survival ’ . |
| 6 | What is also taking place is the formation of sexual identity , the growing allegiance to male or female gender through identification with one or other parent . |
| 7 | The reporters were also told that ‘ evidence that fusion was taking place was the fact that in addition to heat [ Fleischmann and Pons had ] detected the production of neutrons , tritium and helium — the expected by-products of fusion reactions ’ . |
| 8 | When parents exclude children from their own grief it can make the child feel that the awful event that has taken place is a punishment for which they are in part responsible . |