Example sentences of "took place [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This semi-colonial expansion took place without great enthusiasm in St Petersburg . |
| 2 | But now Chambers insisted that the extensions to growth took place without supernatural interference , so that one species naturally transmuted itself into a higher one at a certain point in time . |
| 3 | Until the last ten years most authors thought that solution seam and stylolite formation took place during deep burial diagenesis . |
| 4 | The exchange took place during Scottish Question time . |
| 5 | My first — secretly arranged — meeting with Harrison Ngau took place over early morning tea . |
| 6 | The most controversial change of auditors of the past two years took place at Prudential Corporation . |
| 7 | OUR Confirmation took place at Sacred Heart , Howden . |
| 8 | When the first 120 miles of the East India Railway were opened from Calcutta to Raniganj in 1855 , the ceremony took place at Burdwan station , a long classical structure 66 miles from Calcutta . |
| 9 | Actual railway operations , however , did not begin until 5 January 1904 , when a special train left Oswestry for the ceremony which took place at Porthywaen Station . |
| 10 | They lacked the bitterness and sterility of the debates on Party discipline , Communist affiliation and the United Front which took place at subsequent Party Conferences . |
| 11 | It 's thought , in fact , that they represent areas where ‘ midocean ’ ridges once formed below the continents , in the late stages of continental rifting , but before an ocean proper had opened ( cf. chapter one ) , so in a sense the kind of volcanic activity that is typical of oceanic areas in fact took place on dry land . |
| 12 | General discussion then took place on possible work which the Council members could arrange within the parishes . |
| 13 | This myth can be countered in its own terms : first by pointing out that the impressive economic performance of countries like Indonesia and the Philippines , whose per capita incomes have grown by an average of 3.0% a year in the last few decades , took place alongside rapid population growth ; second by showing that Africa 's ten richest countries have similar population growth rates to the continent 's ten poorest countries . |
| 14 | Extensive informal consultations then took place among senior party leaders , and on May 29 the CWC unanimously elected as the new party president P. V. Narasimha Rao , 70 , a southerner who had served in cabinets under Indira and Rajiv Gandhi . |
| 15 | The beneficial effect of the diets supplemented with polyunsaturated fatty acids was only observed when the acid challenge took place after mild acid irritation , suggesting that the dietary manipulation increased the ability of the mucosa to promote a defensive mechanism against the acid challenge . |
| 16 | For most people this introduction took place in early childhood , and the failure is made manifest by the steady disillusionment which , all too often as the years go by and adulthood brings the inevitable struggle of innate common sense to prevail , leaves them either cynical and faithless , or constrained to join some form of sectarian cult . |
| 17 | The dominantly clastic ( shales ) and lesser chemical ( carbonates ) deposits in northern Malawi , southern Tanzania and northern Zambia suggest that deposition took place in shallow lake basins which were relatively hydrologically open and in deeper lake basins which were relatively hydrologically closed . |
| 18 | The first pilot took place in Central College , Glasgow , during November . |
| 19 | Industry became more mechanized , improvements took place in agricultural production techniques , and there were improvements in transport and in the organization of trade and banking . |
| 20 | This year the prayer service took place in Blairhill-Dundyvan Parish Church . |
| 21 | While the fighting took place in open country , the Legionnaires and Regulares were in their element . |