Example sentences of "take place by the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been a matter of controversy whether the non-associative kinds of learning are really learning at all , and if so , whether they do not really take place by the same general mechanisms as associative learning . |
| 2 | The process of conception as such is not affected , and the scientist no more ‘ creates ’ a baby than does the obstetrician who performs a Caesarean section , an operation which has saved the lives of countless mothers and babies in situations where birth could not take place by the natural route . |
| 3 | An earlier Neville connection is implied by the marriage of Roger 's sister Alice to Thomas Metcalfe , a match which must have taken place by the mid 1460s . |
| 4 | An earlier Neville connection is implied by the marriage of Roger 's sister Alice to Thomas Metcalfe , a match which must have taken place by the mid 1460s . |
| 5 | Through the 1930s and 1940s the habit quickly spread through Britain , at far too fast a rate for it to have taken place by the natural selection of Mendelian genes ( Figure 3.12 ) . |
| 6 | A visit to the walled kitchen garden at Felbrigg in Norfolk , complete with handsome dovehouse , is a good way of observing the changes which had begun to take place by the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | Mass rallies commemorating Azerbaijanis killed in Baku in January were permitted to take place by the military authorities controlling the city . |