Example sentences of "[verb] place [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The term ‘ local state ’ gained critical acceptance and helped place on a new conceptual stage the mass of research and political activity that had gathered around local , or community , politics since the late 1960s. for those on the radical left , the state , and of course the local state , came to be seen as a site of competing political interests rather than as a neutral set of administrative institutions . |
| 2 | I interviewed Place in a midget submarine in Portsmouth dockyard similar to the one in which he and two other men had travelled up the long fjord in northern Norway at the head of which Tirpitz lay , cut their way through the nets surrounding her and laid charges beneath her hull which , when they exploded an hour later and Place was a prisoner-of-war on board her , put the ship out of action for six months . |
| 3 | Hence it is the closed national state which afforded to capitalism its chance for development — and as long as the national state does not give place to a world empire capitalism also will endure . |
| 4 | The limestone scars seen on the left during the ascent here give place to a moorland shelf inclined at an easier gradient which , on investigation , is found to be perforated by a line of potholes . |
| 5 | In bronze the great tripod-cauldrons give place to a new fashion : tall , conical stands supporting big bowls with incurving rim , their ring-handles held by attachments in the form of human-headed birds ( sirens ) ; and , standing round the shoulder between these , long-necked griffin-heads . |
| 6 | Enquire at Keeper 's House near Lettermore if concerned , but note no shooting generally takes place on a Sunday . |
| 7 | For these reasons , a barter-based economy could not develop into a sophisticated modern economy in which the buying and selling of goods and services takes place on a continuous basis . |
| 8 | The school might , for example , recommend that musical activity takes place on a weekly basis . |
| 9 | 1981 — AFTER a short engagement in which Charles demands that Diana call him Sir , the marriage takes place on a beautiful summer 's day on July 29 with a fairytale ceremony at St Paul 's cathederal . |
| 10 | Assembly of engines takes place on a central jig , the radial being built-up , ‘ Christmas tree ’ fashion |
| 11 | An approach towards more coordinated wage negotiations has been made via the annual ‘ Spring Wage Offensive ’ which takes place on a nation-wide basis , and in which many unions participate . |
| 12 | A typical road accident involving children takes place on a Friday in winter — and boys are more vulnerable than girls . |
| 13 | If the dance takes place on a horizontal plane , then this waggled line will point directly at the food source . |
| 14 | What 's more , this detonation ( which takes place on a remote beach , with only a dog as witness ) does n't set fire to other parts of the novel . |
| 15 | The Commonwealth Tournament , which includes sides from Canada , Australia and New Zealand , takes place on a four-year cycle , and Britain has not lifted the trophy since it lasted hosted the event , at Ganton , in 1975 . |
| 16 | For example , much library work with students takes place on a one-to-one basis , and offers opportunities for a different adult/student relationship from that of the classroom . |
| 17 | There is great public concern about design and quality , especially when development takes place on a greenfield site . |
| 18 | This takes place on a planet 's surface using solid 3D graphics . |
| 19 | The above four possibilities are listed below ( assuming the calculation takes place on a coupon payment date so that Al = 0 ) : |
| 20 | The ‘ video conference ’ then takes place for a fee of between £80 and £120 for half an hour . |
| 21 | It shows that pre-modern power takes place via a set of unmediated exchanges between subjects , while modern power stems from a relationship between fields ( whose symbolic economy imparts to them their structure ) and the ‘ consumer ’ who is subject to this power . |
| 22 | The VDU interface exploits the full screen display techniques possible with the VDU , so that all interaction takes place via a series of display pages . |
| 23 | All LIFESPAN user interaction takes place via a series of display pages on a terminal . |
| 24 | Every time that sexual intercourse takes place with a new partner there is a risk that some disease will be passed on from one to the other and , with rare exceptions , there is no way of telling , by simply looking at a person , whether they have an infection or not . |
| 25 | This cleaning takes place at a definite cleaning station , usually by a large rock or near some other bold feature on the sea bed . |
| 26 | The reason for this is that sperm production takes place at a temperature a couple of degrees lower than body temperature , so the process has to take place outside the body to function properly . |
| 27 | The festival , organise din association with XFM radio and Riverman concerts , takes place at a series of London venues . |
| 28 | If the relocation takes place at a time when it is important for a child to complete a course of education , e.g. GCE examinations , the company will pay reasonable board and lodging costs for the child up to a maximum of £200 per month for the remainder of that school term or until all examinations are complete within that academic year . |
| 29 | It has been argued by Clegg ( 1976 ) that in terms of the causal direction of the relationship it is the level of bargaining which determines the degree of centralisation , with the result that power is decentralised within organisations when bargaining takes place at a decentralised level , and vice versa . |
| 30 | In the context of inflationary scenarios this formation takes place at a time ( refs 14 , 15 ) . |