Example sentences of "took place [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr James Curtis , for the prosecution , told the court the stabbing took place during a row at the party held at Bream 's flat in January this year . |
| 2 | The transfer took place during a natural cycle , and , to date , the pregnancy has gone smoothly . |
| 3 | The After Redundancy study took place during a period when the level of economic activity among older people in general , and older men in particular , had been declining ( Walker 1980 ; Parker 1982 ; OPCS 1987 ) . |
| 4 | The printing of De revolutionibus took place during a tense period when the freedom of Protestants and the independence of Nuremberg were being threatened by Catholic authorities . |
| 5 | Hubel and Wiesel showed that the properties of the neurons in the visual cortex were drastically changed by restricting the visual experience of an animal , provided that these restrictions took place during a few months early in life called the sensitive period . |
| 6 | The presentation took place during a women 's enterprise forum , held at the Impasse Centre , Corporation Road , Middlesbrough . |
| 7 | This time a sponsored ‘ Ball Bounce ’ took place during a Medau Open Evening and thanks to the stamina of class members and friends over £1,000 was raised in aid of Arthritis in Young Children . |
| 8 | Although discussions took place about a possible return to the former scale of activity , Newlove 's health did not improve and he was physically limited to Wells where either One-Year or Terminal courses continued until 1934 when the WEA branch became inactive . |
| 9 | As the result of the demolition of the colleges of education in the 1970s and the mergers that took place between a number of colleges and polytechnics , the latter now have a major stake in teacher education . |
| 10 | Field-work took place over a twelve-month period between 1987 and 1988 , and was sufficiently prolonged to avoid the criticism which brief ‘ smash-andgrab ’ ethnographies often deserve . |
| 11 | The rebuilding of the old manor took place over a period of about five years and was probably finished in about 1727 . |
| 12 | Unlike the 1991 Rugby World Cup , which took place over a whole month , not to mention the three months build-up , thereby allowing the sponsors to develop their marketing strategy over a long period of time , the World Sevens tournament is a three-day event , with the commercial potential of a ‘ Market blink ’ , as he puts it . |
| 13 | Note that although the actions of the mother , father and child might well have been part of one connected incident , the cuts to the first shot of the older child and to the shot of the father getting to his feet open up the possibility that the actions could in fact have been parts of separate but similar incidents which took place over a very much longer span of time ; the shot of the father could well have been contrived specially , with the help of a little direction from the cameraman in between shots . |
| 14 | My first little skirmish took place over a film , one about rape . |
| 15 | But the change was n't radical , it took place over a period of er I would suggest er maybe about six or seven years . |
| 16 | Telford 's intensive subject assessment , co-ordinated in college by Fiona Baikie , took place over a fortnight at the end of November 1989 . |
| 17 | In the beginning , the race took place over a course that included three brooks and a five foot stone wall amongst the 29 jumps . |
| 18 | Comparison of the contents of the first two editions of Craig 's ‘ Geology of Scotland ’ , published in 1965 and 1983 , reveals just how completely and all-pervasively this change took place over a very short period of time . |
| 19 | Far from extending Darwinian gradualism , the scientists who tried to reconstruct the past had returned to a theory of history that assumed that progress took place through a series of distinct episodes , representing the rise and fall of groups that evolved in parallel rather than in sequence . |
| 20 | This impressive growth took place despite a significant reduction in capital allowances — which took away some of the benefits of leasing , the introduction of an accounting standard ( SSAP 21 ) requiring lessees to capitalise finance leases and , of course , the longest recession in post-war history . |
| 21 | While cases remained open , re-assessment for one of the same group of services took place to a more marked extent in the generic team and by the individual specialist than in the specialist team . |
| 22 | Wartime expansion of milk consumption took place for a third reason that related more to specific practical problems than to a new attitude on the part of policy-makers : simply , the disruptions of wartime made it virtually impossible to implement the pre-war means test criteria , such as the definition of a ‘ necessitous ’ child eligible for free milk , or the distinguishing of those children receiving cheap milk for the under-fives under section 2 of the 1939 Milk Industry Act . |
| 23 | On the same day the first reading took place of a bill to merge the Ministries of Defence and Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps into a single Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics [ for merger of Ministries in August Cabinet reshuffle see p. 36859 ] . |
| 24 | On this occasion , however , the details of some of the behind-the-scenes fixing were publicized by the opposition and an unprecedented public protest took place as a result . |
| 25 | It has been widely argued ( but see later ) that within the lowland Neotropics , the fragmentation of populations took place as a result of climatic and associated vegetational changes in the last 2 million years . |
| 26 | The talks took place as a new union study suggested that it would cost more in the long-term to close pits than to keep most of them open . |
| 27 | Northgate Sports Centre , Ipswich , hosted the Amateur Fencing Association 's Eastern Section Ladies Epee competition took place with a field of quality entrants from all across the region . |
| 28 | His 1939 journey took place at a time when anti-British sentiments were beginning to reach Hadhramaut from Cairo and there was increasing criticism of the privileges of sayyid rulers . |
| 29 | The controversy which surrounded these events , and which periodically exercised the District Executive and enlivened the District Council , took place at a time when tutor-organisers were less established figures than they were to be in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 30 | The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish . |