Example sentences of "[vb pp] place [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus section 9 provides that in any proceedings before a court no evidence shall be adduced and no question in cross-examination shall be asked which tends to suggest that an interception has taken place without a warrant — that is , illegally . |
| 2 | In all these , especially in the production of new words , reform has often taken place without a recognition of the implications for music in worship . |
| 3 | It is inconceivable that these dramatic changes in demographic structure could have taken place without a major effect on the geographical distribution of population in Britain and on its composition in different localities . |
| 4 | All these rebuffs by the electorate have taken place during a year in which Major has played the role of world leader : the Gulf war ; the Soviet coup ; the chairmanship of the G7 countries ; the Maastricht treaty on European economic , monetary and political union . |
| 5 | It can not reproduce all the recording and reporting which has taken place during a pupil 's years of secondary education . |
| 6 | The name change was necessary , it was argued , because the original name referred to a single event that had taken place over a decade previously , that it gave the wrong image , and did n't properly describe the work being done by the organisation . |
| 7 | Has your Medau class ever taken place under a clear blue sky to music coming from an ice cream van ? |
| 8 | Students will be asked to monitor their own personal and social development which has taken place as a result of work experience and to review this in conjunction with the tutor . |
| 9 | Students will be asked to monitor their own personal and social development which has taken place as a result of the experience and to review this in conjunction with the tutor . |
| 10 | ‘ It had become necessary to dispel these doubts so that , with full trust restored , South Africa 's people could benefit from the technological development that has taken place as a result of this process . ’ |
| 11 | The funeral 's taken place of a pensioner killed in his own home . |
| 12 | The funeral has taken place of a student who died in a mysterious barn fire nine months ago . |
| 13 | The funeral has taken place of a pilot whose Spitfire crashed onto a runway at an airshow , exploding into flames . |
| 14 | The funeral has taken place of a teenage soldier who was killed by the IRA . |
| 15 | No further work has taken place for a number of weeks , the barriers have fallen down , one of the warning lights has been thrown into the river and another has been thrown into the hedge several times . |
| 16 | The role of step-parents can be hard , especially if the problems have not been foreseen and the marriage has taken place on a powerful wave of emotion and little else . |
| 17 | I think the quite clearly what comes out erm of reading our papers and the papers of the district , is the er tremendous degree of consultation that 's taken place on a number of occasions back and forth between district and making use of er of emerging working on er on local plans across the county . |
| 18 | But such union-government bargaining has taken place on a wide range of issues ; for example , over new investment in poorer regions ( e.g. Eisenhammer 1985 : 42–4 ) , rescue bids for ailing private sector companies ( e.g. Grassini 1981 : 82 ) , extension of union participation in management ( e.g. Batstone et al. |
| 19 | However , the right of establishment does not imply only physical location in the country of establishment , but also that this must have taken place with a view to pursuing an economic activity . |
| 20 | Eight thefts of cycles have taken place with a £500 mountain cycle stolen from Barnard Street , two cycles worth £400 from Hewitson Road and a Shogun Trailblazer worth £400 from Polam Road , for example . |
| 21 | Local consultation 's taken place with a view to establishing a series of centres throughout Yardley Street where members of the public can bring materials for recycling , and you have made appropriate for the materials to be collected and dealt with . |
| 22 | At the stage in the growth of a scientific discovery when it is no longer just internal but has not yet become a formal paper , then the scholarly interchange would have depended on whom individuals knew or knew of , the letter writing would be unmanaged and survive by chance ( often only one side of the story ) and , due to concern that ideas should not be stolen , may only have taken place at a late stage of the discovery process . |
| 23 | The purchaser may be tempted to take a stance it might not have chosen if the same negotiations had taken place at a later stage . |
| 24 | The offences are alleged to have taken place at a children 's home in Sunderland where the boy was a resident . |
| 25 | Questioned by Paul Cullen , prosecuting , the girl said the offences had taken place at a house where she had stayed with her parents and at her grandmother 's house . |
| 26 | Defending Hinkin and Plumb , solicitor Bob Booker told the court that the offences had all taken place within a fortnight in early March . |
| 27 | Yet the development of the law of trusts had taken place within a period in which it alone could offer these advantages ; to them its rise owed much . |
| 28 | It is accordingly advisable for the lease to contain a right to terminate the lease if reinstatement has not taken place within a reasonable period . |
| 29 | The debate in Committee has taken place against a background of what the Chinese , who are celebrating their new year this week , would call ’ interesting times ’ . |
| 30 | The wrath of her disappointment had been the instrument of his education , which had taken place in a perpetual rush from site to site of a hastily amalgamated three-school comprehensive , the Aneurin Bevan school , combining Glasdale Old Grammar School , St Thomas à Beckett 's C of E Secondary School and the Clothiers ' Guild Technical Modern School . |