Example sentences of "took place during " in BNC.

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1 Batley and Sheffield Eagles received a severe reprimand yesterday for the fighting which took place during their first-round Yorkshire Cup tie .
2 Work to modernise and improve Ilam Hall took place during the last two winters .
3 ‘ I want to know what discussions took place during the Rover negotiations on other civil and military issues ; on launch aid for the Airbus ; and on the general tax affairs of British Aerospace .
4 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 .
5 But , as the table shows , after adjustment for inflation some of the mergers that took place during this century 's three previous spates of restructuring — 1897–1904 , 1925–30 and the late 1960s — were as big as the top takeovers of the 1980s .
6 Heated debate over the dam project took place during the 15-day NPC session , with many delegates opposing it for environmental and financial reasons .
7 No doubt many of the crucial steps in insect evolution took place during the Devonian , but of this phase of insect history there is very little record .
8 If the report is seen and used as a reminder note of discussions that took place during the consultation meeting rather than a stand alone document then the task of report writing becomes significantly easier .
9 Most of the building of the cathedral took place during two periods of intense patriotism in Bohemia .
10 Single-line working took place during the relaying .
11 Other improvements took place during the years following .
12 Fortunately the incident took place during the school holidays , otherwise I would not have been in the garden later in the morning , when a cock started crowing .
13 The transfer took place during a natural cycle , and , to date , the pregnancy has gone smoothly .
14 The fulfilment or non-fulfilment of inflated ‘ plans ’ does not , of course , detract from the very real increases in industrial production that took place during the FFYP .
15 To add to its problems Eurotunnel , is also under investigation by the British and French Stock Exchanges as a result of claims that insider dealing in its shares took place during the period immediately preceding the July announcement of a cost overrun .
16 His funeral took place during the First Test at Trent Bridge , with South Africa the tourists : play was halted as a tribute to the man whose valet helped him to contrive county cricket 's most amazing victory .
17 Large military spending took place during the war years of 1914–18 , followed by the Allied countries ' demands for huge reparations in the Treaty of Versailles .
18 He displayed gratification through all the entertainments that took place during and after the feast , and took the floor with the rest during the slow , formal dancing , in which he had been well taught by the various females attracted to his brake and his burrow .
19 The patronal festival of the parish church of St Peter of Tankersley should be the 29th June , but Tankersley Feast always took place during the second week of July .
20 It was a type of initiation ceremony for new boys and took place during Saturday break when two prefects held each new boy up in turn to kiss the Old Man to the accompaniment of the ironical applause of the whole school .
21 But also the party system itself is credited by MacPherson as being chiefly responsible for the preservation of the institution of private property and the market mechanism , notwithstanding the extension of the franchise which took place during the nineteenth century .
22 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 ) .
23 According to the Congregation for the Cause of Saints in Rome , a total of 1,359 beatifications and canonisations took place during this century alone , more than one a month .
24 First official event took place during the early afternoon of April 25 , when a large number of people gathered at the memorial site dedicated to the RAF and Allied aircrew .
25 In which case , ‘ depoliticization ’ took place during some earlier — unidentified — period .
26 The chapters which follow look more closely at some of the relevant legislative changes that took place during this period , and the background and responses to these reforms .
27 According to officials of the Department of Antiquities , the theft and destruction of these items took place during the upheavals of last March caused by the Gulf War .
28 The words used by Froissart to express his aim in writing his great chronicle , ‘ that the honourable enterprises , noble adventures and deeds of arms which took place during the wars waged by France and England should be fittingly related and preserved for posterity ’ , fit admirably into the pattern of thought and practice which regarded war as a noble way of life .
29 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 .
30 All these marriages took place during the Great War and it is a matter of generation more than anything else if the groom was a serviceman .
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