Example sentences of "taken place by [art] " in BNC.

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1 They wanted progress , but preferred to believe that the advances had taken place by a series of discrete steps , each too large to be compatible with any form of natural development .
2 Most of the steps leading to the modern conifers seem to have taken place by the end of the Palaeozoic ; no other group of organisms of such antiquity has retained such an unbroken hold over vast areas of the earth as the conifers .
3 The process was very gradual , but the evolution from an essentially contractual relationship between king and magnates to one which acknowledged some form of sovereignty ( superioritas ) had taken place by the end of the thirteenth century .
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 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 .
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