Example sentences of "were [v-ing] place [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some small instrumented areas have been selected as representative of particular conditions whereas others were experimental , in which change due to logging or other forms of land use change could be monitored either by change in one basin or by comparison of several areas in which changes were taking place to differing degrees . |
| 2 | But with hindsight , the effects of such works can seem limited in comparison with the impact of other , more structural , changes that were taking place within British culture at the time . |
| 3 | These final days of the third session were taking place in increasing gloom . |
| 4 | Across the Channel great changes were taking place in Western Europe . |
| 5 | The whole nationality question , he promised , would shortly be discussed more fully in the light of the changes that were taking place in other areas of Soviet life ; perhaps , he added in early 1988 , this could be the subject of one of the forthcoming meetings of the Central Committee . |
| 6 | Changes were taking place in rural economies too . |
| 7 | Many considerable advances were taking place in scientific discovery with regard to the structure and composition of the physical world surrounding human beings , and with regard to the physical nature and make-up of human beings themselves . |
| 8 | Payment was finally approved after the council was assured that the orchestra 's internal feuding had ceased and that changes were taking place in senior personnel . |
| 9 | The one fact which seems to emerge was that changes were taking place in British villas round about 360 and this was reflected in the two maps , figs. 6.1 and 6.2 , included in this 1969 study . |