Example sentences of "[vb past] place at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His 1939 journey took place at a time when anti-British sentiments were beginning to reach Hadhramaut from Cairo and there was increasing criticism of the privileges of sayyid rulers . |
| 2 | The controversy which surrounded these events , and which periodically exercised the District Executive and enlivened the District Council , took place at a time when tutor-organisers were less established figures than they were to be in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 3 | The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish . |
| 4 | Early trials of the new drug took place at a time when the transplantation of kidneys and other organs was being vigorously investigated . |
| 5 | A heart-warming incident took place at a little up-country town where we rested to get a midday meal . |
| 6 | These are not , however , the same kind of truth ; for the first holds for all time and every place , whereas the second has to do with a specific event which as a matter of fact took place at a particular point in history . |
| 7 | Besides a number of activities which took place at a regional level , many more were carried on throughout the year by its corporate and personal members . |
| 8 | The conference took place at a time of great political turmoil , and there were calls for the resignation of President Collor and an end to corruption . |
| 9 | True , but in some cases that did not amount to all that much , and while inter-war legislation obviously provided the experience for the post-war Planning Acts which followed , the development of statutory land-use control took place at a time when particular environmental changes seemed to be little affected by formal planning powers . |
| 10 | Virtually nothing is known of Freeman 's early years ; he shrouded his early life in great mystery and even the details of his secondary schooling — which apparently took place at a boarding-school in north London — remained unknown to his closest relatives . |
| 11 | The withdrawal of most full-time students ' entitlement to those benefits took place at a time when substantial additional resources were being made available to students through the education system . |
| 12 | The session took place at a time of intense political debate in China , with Deng Xiaoping , the country 's " elder statesman " leader , leading a drive for the implementation of more fundamental economic reforms [ see pp. 38813-14 ; 38764 ; 38722 ] . |
| 13 | This left-wing revival among the electorate took place at a time when some devoted socialists were becoming disillusioned with the prospects of actually accomplishing any sort of social revolution during the war itself . |
| 14 | The Spanish Civil War took place at a time of growing tension in Europe , on account of the increasingly belligerent attitude of Hitler 's Germany and the less bellicose , but also expansionist , intentions of fascist Italy . |
| 15 | The areas enclosed in the south of the county were on average larger than those in the east , so it is likely that enclosure there took place at a time when conditions were more conducive to the practice . |
| 16 | The court held that trespass to air space was not committed where the flight took place at a height which did not affect the use of the land . |
| 17 | If money wage negotiations took place at a highly centralized level , with trades union leaders bargaining over the general level of wages , workers should be indifferent as between reductions in W and increases in P in effecting a given reduction in the real wage rate . |
| 18 | The incident took place at a house on Jerviston Street in New Stevenson at around eight o'clock last night . |
| 19 | As a result , the purchaser can now be held responsible for all dismissal claims by employees dismissed in connection with the sale even if the dismissals took place at a time earlier than literally " immediately before " the transfer . |
| 20 | Duns Scotus is a major figure for the ecumenical movement in Scotland and that fact was recognised when the service took place at an evening prayer meeting attended by many non-Catholics , rather than during mass , as would have been normal . |
| 21 | The launch took place at the site of the Trust 's first major project , a disused clay pit at Bean , near Dartford , where work has started to create an 80 acre country park . |
| 22 | These were organised by Roger Draper , and took place at The Hong Kong Arts Centre ( 17 Nov ) , The City Hall Concert Hall ( 21 Nov ) and the Hong Kong Cultural Centre Concert Hall ( 25 Nov ) . |
| 23 | On January 24 1987 a demonstration with 12,000 to 15,000 demonstrators took place at the premises of newspaper proprietors in Wapping and there were many arrests . |
| 24 | The confrontation took place at the Chi Ma Wan island detention centre , which houses those believed to be next in line for deportation . |
| 25 | It took place at the house of my friend R E. Vernede , himself a poet of some promise and a novelist of some performance who was also killed in the ‘ 14–18 ’ war . |
| 26 | Prague 's second famous defenestration took place at the Hradčany Castle when Bohemian Protestants again thought themselves threatened in 1618 . |
| 27 | A great deal of discussion took place at the playground gate and when questionnaires were returned there was a 95 per cent response rate with over 98 per cent of those parents in favour of adopting a uniform on a voluntary basis including an agreement on colour and style . |
| 28 | It took place at the junction of Wilton and Devizes Roads , opposite the County Gaol . |
| 29 | Experiments in electrical recording continued , but the most significant research took place at the Western Electric laboratories in New York . |
| 30 | The annual presentations for the men 's section of Aldershot , Farnham & District Athletic Club took place at the Military Stadium on Friday . |