Example sentences of "taken place [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is inconceivable that these dramatic changes in demographic structure could have taken place without a major effect on the geographical distribution of population in Britain and on its composition in different localities . |
| 2 | Considering the major developments that have taken place during the past 12 months within Rolls Wood Group , the achievement in such a period of time reflects the workforce 's determination to establish Rolls Wood Group as a leader in this market . |
| 3 | She continued to tell Charlie everything that had taken place during the past year and the only frown to appear on his forehead came when Charlie learned the details of Daphne 's investment . |
| 4 | This in effect means that there is an onus on the Insured to notify all changes which have taken place during the previous period of insurance . |
| 5 | In general , the Fulton Committee 's critique was overdone in that it was attacking a caricature of the service which was never wholly true , and certainly underestimated the changes that had taken place since the late 1950s . |
| 6 | The impact of these recent employment trends is reflected clearly in the shifts in population distribution which have taken place since the early 1970s ( table 8.2 ) . |
| 7 | The PRD said that 52 of its activists had been killed since the July 1988 general election but that most of the murders had taken place since the municipal elections in December 1989 , the results of which were still in contention in many towns . |
| 8 | Discreet contacts had taken place since an unpublicized trip to Nairobi in January by the Foreign Minister , Roelof " Pik " Botha . |
| 9 | Voluntary landscape agreements have not saved acres of hedgerows , heath or woodland and even those trees that remain in lowland England are an ageing population because insufficient planting has taken place over the past thirty years . |
| 10 | Substantial changes in the provision of long term care for elderly people have taken place over the past decade . |
| 11 | Admitting that the security forces were involved in a recent wave of kidnappings and murders of students , he said that his government did not have the means to combat the activities which had taken place over the past few months , aimed at creating a climate of terror and instability in order to justify an attempt to return to the past or the installation of a president who would promise a tough policy . |
| 12 | The report concludes that warming of between 0.3C and 0.6C has taken place over the past 100 years , a figure which correlates with data from a range of global warming models prepared recently by climate scientists . |
| 13 | Has your Medau class ever taken place under a clear blue sky to music coming from an ice cream van ? |
| 14 | Yet since the late 1950s extensive progress on the negotiation of general clauses on working conditions has taken place between the central employers ' organisations and large trade union confederations , along with government participation , on an economy-wide basis . |
| 15 | The halving in aggregate attendance at football matches , which has taken place between the early 1950s and the early 1980s ( from almost 40 million to under 20 million ) , is a result of the disinclination of married men to spend most Saturday afternoons watching live football . |
| 16 | In his haste to be gone on his mysteriously urgent errand , only the briefest of exchanges had taken place between the dark Maltese and her friends , while she was being returned like a sack of damp laundry to its rightful owners … |
| 17 | Firstly , it is clear that a transfer of responsibility has taken place between the different forms of provision . |
| 18 | West of Turnham Green considerable residential development had already taken place between the High Road and Wellesley Road , including Chiswick Road , Marlborough Road , Grosvenor Road , Heathfield Gardens and Arlington Park Gardens North and South — the latter being renamed later Walpole Gardens , and the former shortened to Arlington Gardens . |
| 19 | The funeral has taken place of a teenage soldier who was killed by the IRA . |
| 20 | But such union-government bargaining has taken place on a wide range of issues ; for example , over new investment in poorer regions ( e.g. Eisenhammer 1985 : 42–4 ) , rescue bids for ailing private sector companies ( e.g. Grassini 1981 : 82 ) , extension of union participation in management ( e.g. Batstone et al. |
| 21 | The role of step-parents can be hard , especially if the problems have not been foreseen and the marriage has taken place on a powerful wave of emotion and little else . |
| 22 | Service after 4 pm on a weekday or 12 noon on a Saturday is deemed to have taken place on the following day or on Monday as the case may be ( RSC , Ord 65 , r 7 ) . |
| 23 | The process will take about half an hour , will require two reels of tape and will be initiated by the Computer Services Department operator at 08.00 , whenever a transfer to the Working-Set has taken place on the previous night . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They were told that consideration would be given to allocating houses which became vacant to Springtown residents and that discussions had taken place with the rural district council and the NIHT about allocations of houses by them . |
| 26 | A P L O statement says , A series of meetings have taken place with the personal blessing of it 's leader Yassa Arafat . |
| 27 | A fight had taken place with the Jew-hating Italian who , armed with a wrench , had tried to kill him . |
| 28 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what discussions have taken place with the United Nations High Commission on Refugees over the last month . |
| 29 | To be worthwhile , any such conference would have to be of sufficient weight so that it could have a decisive effect on the ‘ official ’ international conferences — several of which had already taken place with the express purpose of reviewing the treaty , but which had succeeded in producing only confusion and bitterness . |
| 30 | At the stage in the growth of a scientific discovery when it is no longer just internal but has not yet become a formal paper , then the scholarly interchange would have depended on whom individuals knew or knew of , the letter writing would be unmanaged and survive by chance ( often only one side of the story ) and , due to concern that ideas should not be stolen , may only have taken place at a late stage of the discovery process . |