Example sentences of "place at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Montreal was catching up with developments which had taken place at many American stations earlier in the century . |
| 2 | Discussion of the need to introduce certain Western political , economic and social practices would appear to have taken place at many levels of society . |
| 3 | There were special services to commemorate the Queen 's death in 1901 as well as ‘ United Communion Services ’ which took place at each National Council . |
| 4 | This typification does not imply that work would not take place at each of the four levels , in each policy context ( though it may , indeed , take different forms and receive different priorities ) . |
| 5 | Subject to sub-paragraph ( iii ) below , when the Parliamentary Labour Party is in opposition in the House of Commons the election of the party leader and deputy leader shall take place at each annual party conference . |
| 6 | This meant that on average a girl would have to obtain higher examination marks than a boy to secure a place at such a school . |
| 7 | So far as white settlement is concerned , the rapid peopling of the Canadian prairies and north country , of southern , central , and eastern Africa could not have taken place at such a speed without the railway . |
| 8 | No doubt he exaggerated ( such was his wont where his conscience was concerned ) ; yet the only news she had received from Em herself had not been happy ; and now — to learn that she had suffered a miscarriage in that desert place at such a time of year , and that she had not felt able to share the grief of it with her own affectionate sister … |
| 9 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
| 10 | The Consultation took place at All Saints Pastoral Centre , London Colney , Herts , 7–8 November 1989 . |
| 11 | Trade with other former members of Comecon is to be in hard currency , if it takes place at all . |
| 12 | Neither party thought too much about the place at all . |
| 13 | There 's no other place at all . ’ |
| 14 | We discuss evidence that these two types of mapping can be carried out separately and that , in certain circumstances , role-to-name mapping in particular may not take place at all . |
| 15 | Co-ordination , if it is to take place at all , is also most likely to be instigated by the clearinghouses ; but ideally it ought to take place between the library associations , if for no other reason than that they can provide financial support to arrange the necessary meetings of coordinating committees . |
| 16 | The real competition , the old-style conception of the battle for survival , may have taken place , if it took place at all , between the plants that provided the reptiles with their food . |
| 17 | However , if the relevant project could not take place at all without cooperation , then Article 85(1) will not be infringed . |
| 18 | If the fuzz shows up , or the SAS , if there 's any movement around the place at all , we 'll spot it and pull out . |
| 19 | Whether the tour ( which overrides a ban on loans in Barnes 's will and was shepherded through the courts by the National Gallery 's director emeritus , J. Carter Brown , and the wealthy collector Walter Annenberg ; see The Art Newspaper No. 15 , February 1992 , p.1 ) should be taking place at all remains a matter of debate . |
| 20 | In this section I shall explore the strongest of the range of holist positions — the view that there is no place at all for individualist explanations of the social world . |
| 21 | The captain and the chief and second mates received cargo allotments of value , but officers of junior rank were unlikely to make very substantial profits , even if they were not forced to share their allocation of cargo space with the commander in order to obtain a place at all . |
| 22 | Indeed , to secure an officer 's place at all for an Indian voyage was something only obtainable by interest . |
| 23 | Irrespective of whether Reagan 's economic policy was correct or not , or whether it achieved the objectives sought , the fact that the policy was put into place at all is remarkable in itself . |
| 24 | As for the Drouot auction , it is not clear whether it will take place at all . |
| 25 | First , it concerns creating just the right atmosphere in the classroom for learning to take place at all in a human way . |
| 26 | And since that assumption is implicit in the Webbs ' criticism of Owen , it can not be understood too clearly that on their argument there can be no place at all for industrial co-operatives , properly so-called : no place , because the ownership , whether individual or collective , of an industrial co-operative rests in the people working in it . |
| 27 | In other words no change has taken place at all . |
| 28 | Further enlightenment is delayed until ( 11 ) , which at last explains how the interview came to take place at all ; but again , this information is postponed to the end of the main clause , in the relative clause " on which he had been invited which in turn contains a further relative clause " who happened to know … resident tutor " . |
| 29 | First , the anxiety-ridden sense of a need for national unity which is ideologically central to the Report finds no place at all in the formal " conclusions and recommendations " . |
| 30 | Now that we had been here for nearly seven weeks , we were beginning to wonder if the final climax would ever take place at all . |