Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [verb] place " in BNC.
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| 1 | Discussions about my future took place behind closed doors , and sometimes in my presence as though I was n't there . |
| 2 | My Barmitzvah took place nearly three years ago . ’ |
| 3 | Until the further consultation to which I referred in my statement takes place , it is difficult to know which drill halls will continue and where the detachments will be based . |
| 4 | The meeting , the first of its kind to take place in the Kuwait since the end of the Gulf war [ see pp. 37982-90 ] , was prompted by Kuwait 's concern to re-evaluate its links with Arab states based on their differing attitudes towards Iraq . |
| 5 | Any structural change — that is one which changes the rules of the game on the basis of which bargaining takes place — would have to come from outside the system . |
| 6 | There is a relationship between the level at which bargaining takes place and two other variables . |
| 7 | On the basis of six detailed case studies , the project aims to identify the ways in which bargaining takes place within local authorities , particularly in the context of the Rates Act . |
| 8 | It was not only industry that gave advanced European nations their character , but the way in which industrialisation took place , developing the growth of capitalist social relations . |
| 9 | Her inauguration took place on Dec. 3 . |
| 10 | What is urgently needed is forms of education which open up resources — intellectual and material , critical and role-supporting , analytical and committed — to sustain a dialogue between people engaged in different kinds of struggle : a dialogue that respects the differences , while seeking to generalise out of practice at local level to reach an understanding of the power structures against which struggle takes place . |
| 11 | The truth of the first point needs to be examined in terms of the degree to which comprehension takes place , and the inevitability of the second needs to be questioned . |
| 12 | Although for Aristotle physics meant the study of motion and change in nature , the main emphasis was placed by him on the states between which change takes place rather than on the actual course of the motion itself . |
| 13 | The key theme in this study is the suggestion that for any given sequence of changes in technology , the speed at which change takes place may influence the ultimate market structure . |
| 14 | Their wedding took place in Paris on New Year 's Day 1537 with all the pomp James could have wished for , accompanied by the substantial dowry which he also fancied ; but six weeks after reaching Scotland his fragile wife died , unable to survive the rigours of the Scottish winter . |
| 15 | The example is used , like those in other mathematical textbooks , to present ‘ interest ’ outside the political and ideological context within which investment takes place . |
| 16 | She may have been led to the variations by the necessarily high-class backgrounds of her Lord Peter 's earlier investigations , but the book in which she definitively arrived at the backgrounder was The Five Red Herrings of 1931 , in which murder takes place in an artists ' colony in Galloway in Scotland . |
| 17 | The speed at which digestion takes place is directly dependent upon water temperature . |
| 18 | Those responsible for post-school education can not ignore the changing context in which their work takes place . |
| 19 | In essence , the conceptual change involved is encapsulated in the formula that leadership provides the context in which management takes place and that leadership is about people while management is about resources . |
| 20 | With regard to the last of these , the sphere of circulation is that part of the social formation in which exchange takes place , through the buying and selling of all commodities ( including labour power ) . |
| 21 | The earlier trials suggest a characteristic of the following kind for a uniform ( card ) subject : — first a region in which all material is imperfectly seen , then a roughly linear region in which spreading takes place , then a gradual transition to flooding , seen as a super-linear increase in visible pixels with exposure and resulting finally in a complete whiteout , unless the illumination is too low . |
| 22 | The reason is that these colleges agreed to be pilots for a new form of subject assessment described as ‘ intensive ’ to distinguish it from the usual sampling method by which visits take place . |
| 23 | Having identified the skills necessary for successful selling , Part Three examines the types of environment in which selling takes place . |
| 24 | The most general level at which socialisation takes place will obviously be where it is common to the society as a whole . |
| 25 | Once again he backtracks and assumes a larger unity in which conflict takes place . |
| 26 | If Sartre denies all possibility both of an underlying historical structure and of a larger unity , a ‘ hyper-organism ’ as he puts it , within which conflict takes place , then history as he conceptualizes it here has no specific or necessary direction . |
| 27 | Ecology the environment in which behaviour takes place . |
| 28 | Special attention will also be focused on the extent to which development took place on land previously in rural uses as opposed to re-cycled urban land and the role of national and local planning policy in steering development to particular locations . |
| 29 | The domestic situation in which things take place , they are really very different and you can start to draw up categories , of course , of countries , small big maybe , small medium big democratic non-democratic , er military dictatorships civilian government erm and so on , so there are whole series of categories of governments that you can draw up and you can say well these do make a difference in the way erm foreign policy is created . |
| 30 | The exchange should lay down the forum or medium of communication through which trading takes place . |