Example sentences of "[vb past] place [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When exactly this act of depaganisation took place is impossible to say , but the crosses would have been made much easier to carve before the removal of the stones , which show no sign of damage and were , therefore , meant for re-use . |
| 2 | Evolution evidently took place ; how it took place is unclear ; but , since man has language and other creatures do not , man is , after all , for all practical purposes , " a separate creation " . |
| 3 | By contrast , when adults were accompanying children , during a similar three-minute period , less than half of them had any communication at all with their children ; and in two-fifths of the pairs ‘ what took place was negative ’ . |
| 4 | It is conceivable that on a charge of rape a man might argue that he had in fact meant to perpetrate an act of buggery and that the sexual intercourse that took place was unintended . |
| 5 | R.S. also reports that the numbers of staff leaving the company before the relocation took place were insignificant . |
| 6 | erm some of the changes that took place were concerned with learning to chew . |