Example sentences of "[vb base] place [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Those Christians who belong to the sort of council of churches where passionate debates take place about atomic war , South Africa , police brutality , racism and urban decay may think that they at least are closer to the real action .
2 Changes in storage practice , materials and containers sometimes take place without due regard for their effect on protective systems and the possibility of other forms of improvisation can never be eliminated .
3 Stoichiometry is the study of the quantitative composition of chemical substances and also the quantitative changes that take place during chemical reactions .
4 Thus Reactants Products The composition of chemical compounds and the changes in composition that take place during chemical reactions are governed by four important laws .
5 These events take place at 7.30 p.m. , at the Community College , Bishop 's Castle , unless otherwise stated .
6 For the second approach this could only be answered by asking another , deeper , question : why did geographical change take place at that period at all ?
7 Formal checks and reviews of student records take place at frequent intervals and , often , problems can be identified in time for remedial action and counselling .
8 Searches for functional intersections thus take place at compatible levels ( see Figure 2.26 ) .
9 When special events take place at any of the gardens , adequate stocks of publicity material need to be placed on-site .
10 It was agreed that the official opening of the museum take place at 2.30 p.m. on Saturday 24th October 1992 — when it is hoped that as many members as possible will attend .
11 So there 's a whole a series of complicated equations that take place at different layers in the furnace and different temperatures , but the end product of of all of these is basically to produce the iron , slag and carbon dioxide , carbon monoxide and nitrogen .
12 LEVEL CROSSINGS — Many accidents take place at level crossings simply because people lose patience and do n't wait for the barriers to open .
13 Most take place at high points in the stockmarket cycle , when investors are at their most bullish .
14 These usually take place at enjoyable social occasions and the organisation is not arduous .
15 Compulsory drug tests also take place at random and competitors are supplied with copious literature about what medication is and is not acceptable .
16 Considerations in favour of a more flexible approach towards new building in the South East include the need to continue the momentum of the national economic recovery and the search for alternative uses of surplus farmland , but if no firm guidance on this matter is forthcoming in the near future , decentralization is likely to occur more slowly but take place over longer distances .
17 The insistence that the discussion take place through established party channels and the refusal to contemplate changes to the present communist system meant real reforms are extremely unlikely , he added .
18 Likewise the price cycles in the Edgeworth model take place through real time .
19 Electronic transitions in transition metal compounds , as in all other species , take place between occupied and empty orbitals .
20 July 1988 The first talks take place between all the opposing Cambodian factions at the Jakarta Informal Meeting [ see pp. 36615-16 ] .
21 This is particularly important when discussions take place between different levels , for example between the engineer and the contractor 's head office and between the resident engineer and the site agent .
22 Two head-to-head contests take place between three of the four Darlington election candidates this week .
23 The Wight Passap Knitting Club have asked us to publish details of their meetings which take place between 10.30 am to 12 noon every fourth Thursday at Aureol , Victoria Avenue , Shanklin , Isle of Wight .
24 InterCity would like to see relaying take place on revised , high-speed alignments , south of Rugby and through the Trent Valley south of Crewe , co-ordinated with new signalling and power lines .
25 Activities and displays take place on most days .
26 This question led us off into the usual calculations that take place on these occasions , sprinkled with the odd exclamation of ‘ No ! ’ ,
27 Two of the summer 's biggest airshows take place on consecutive weekends this month ( June ) .
28 Could a non-violent transition to socialism take place via socialist victories in liberal democratic elections , and perhaps participation in government coalitions with ‘ bourgeois ’ parties ?
29 A reassessment of statemented children must , in any event , take place within six months either side of a child 's fourteenth birthday .
30 The origin of the pore fluids , whether marine or meteoric ( or fresh ) , also controls the diagenetic reactions which take place within these zones ( Sections 5.3.3 , 5.3.4 and 5.3.5 ) .
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