Example sentences of "[verb] place in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The whole growth process takes place in a plasma chamber , and therein lies the problem . |
| 3 | International borrowing nowadays takes place in a world of moving exchange rates . |
| 4 | Smoking takes place in a smoke house which is linked by a pipe to a firebox . |
| 5 | Second , encounter with God never takes place in a vacuum . |
| 6 | Furthermore , although this action takes place in a local congregation , it is the worship of the whole people of God — the living and the dead , the Church militant and triumphant , for together they constitute the body of Christ . |
| 7 | Despite its title , the Public Order Act creates some offences which apply whether the conduct takes place in a public or a private place . |
| 8 | Yet one may imagine that the dinner-party takes place in a large house , and that in another room the ladies are engaged in their own conversations . |
| 9 | ( vi ) Teaching should bring out the fact that as speech typically takes place in a situation where both speaker and listener are present , it can be accompanied by gestures , and words like this , that , here , now , you etc , whereas writing generally requires greater verbal explicitness . |
| 10 | Communication between cells takes place in a limited number of ways . |
| 11 | Since user education takes place in a variety of libraries , often at different educational levels , the potential for full co-operation across different environments is limited , and for effective co-ordination the potential is less promising . |
| 12 | The action takes place in a Magnox power station where a guide ‘ struggling with the limited conceptual understanding of the local Mayor and Lady Tiara ’ , starts explaining by analogy . |
| 13 | Once play activity becomes formalized , directed , structured by rules , and it takes place in a defined space ( ‘ field of play ’ ) , it moves into the related but distinct area of games . |
| 14 | Policy formulation takes place in a theoretical , social , economic and political context . |
| 15 | If an incident takes place in a local GP 's surgery , you should complain to the local Family Practitioner Committee , whose number will be in the Yellow Pages . |
| 16 | Most of the action takes place in a castle bristling with platforms and a variety of reptilian nasties in several stages of dismemberment , from full-bodied dragons to dragon 's heads , spiders and giant fish . |
| 17 | Die Entführung ( also known as The Seraglio ) takes place in a Turkish harem , and concerns the efforts of Belmonte , a Spanish nobleman , to rescue his beloved Constanze , who has been captured by pirates and sold to the Pasha Selim along with her English maid , Blondchen , and Belmonte 's servant , Pedrillo ( who are , naturally , also in love with each other ) . |
| 18 | Tending takes place in a wide variety of households , characterised by different family structures and by widely different experiences in terms of family relationships and life patterns . |
| 19 | It is difficult to research as it is behaviour which takes place in a domestic setting involving powerless people . |
| 20 | Disenfranchisement takes place in a second , procedural , sense , by virtue of the almost total absence of opportunities for ordinary people to take part in , and effectively contribute to the decision-making process at whatever level , in the outcome of which they feel they have an interest . |
| 21 | In learning sign language the opportunities for doing this are relatively few , and so sign language learning takes place in a less than ideal environment . |
| 22 | However , communication links between the trainee and the trainer via a computer are not a substitute for the two-way conversation and observation which normally takes place in a class-room . |
| 23 | All teaching takes place in a context of opportunity and constraint . |
| 24 | Indeed , much ‘ practical ’ scientific learning in a western education system takes place in a laboratory where students imitate , learn concrete activities and at the same time are assumed to be developing logical and abstracting abilities . |
| 25 | As I have emphasised above , what we think of as ‘ scientific ’ endeavour takes place in a social context , within institutions and ideologies which are not themselves necessarily committed to ‘ scientific ’ thought or logic . |
| 26 | None of his eighteen novels takes place in a Catholic milieu . |
| 27 | It is true that lengthy and detailed scrutiny takes place in a Standing Committee off the floor of the House , but even then it is typically the special interest groups , briefing Opposition spokesmen and Government backbenchers alike , which provide more of the dynamic than the representation of constituents ' views . |
| 28 | It is specious to claim , as some do , that there is interaction between text and reader comparable to what takes place in a conversational exchange . |
| 29 | Whether recovery from anaesthetic takes place in a recovery unit or surgical ward , the monitoring of the patient 's condition to prevent complications is a nursing responsibility supervised by qualified staff . |
| 30 | ‘ Where an unconstitutional change of regime takes place in a recognised state , governments of other states must necessarily consider what dealings , if any , they should have with the new regime , and whether and to what extent it qualifies to be treated as the government of the state concerned . |