Example sentences of "[v-ing] place [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The age barriers to college entry are now rapidly crumbling , giving place to a policy of open access — which means college admission to students of all ages who can demonstrate their capacity to benefit from study . |
| 2 | 1990 sees the Mill 's Tenth Anniversary , however , and various celebrations are taking place including a buffet meal and time of thanksgiving , celebration and praise . |
| 3 | Colonial government is presented as a largely apolitical , administrative business , unrelated to any economic and social changes which might be taking place as a consequence of colonial domination and exploitation ( Eisenstadt 1963 ) . |
| 4 | AN INQUIRY is taking place into a racing sting in which a 33–1 ‘ no-hoper ’ romped home , bookies watchdogs confirmed yesterday . |
| 5 | Such a process has been taking place for a long time . |
| 6 | Discussions on all these issues are currently taking place with a small Reference Group of eight residential and nursing home care providers four from each of the private and voluntary sectors . |
| 7 | 4.33 While work is taking place with a known aggressive client or family , relevant information must always be shared with other colleagues who may be involved . |
| 8 | It was ironic that the union should be taking place on a day when Christian Democrats had tabled a Strasbourg motion condemning Mr Major 's refusal to sign the Social Chapter of the Maastricht Treaty . |
| 9 | The ongoing experiments in this research project are taking place on a network of Unix workstations with a prototype document reuse tool that has a relational database back-end and an X-windows interface . |
| 10 | Children 's activities are also a high priority , with art workshops and dance courses taking place on a regular basis . |
| 11 | Somewhere in the corridor , the basement door slammed and Jimmy watched everything as if it was taking place on a stage , and he was a member of the audience . |
| 12 | Discussions are taking place on a number of other issues , for example , to ensure that these themes are co-ordinated and promoted more strongly , and to investigate the funding of short- term feasibility studies involving applicants from both IT and engineering departments . |
| 13 | The exercise is taking place on a purpose built village on the Central Ammunitions Depot at Kineton . |
| 14 | In both cases these are intellectuals talking about their own work by linking it with a process continually taking place at a popular level and in everyday life . |
| 15 | A similar , if less dramatic , process ‘ was taking place at a lower level ; new urban districts were being carved out of the rural districts ’ ( Keith-Lucas and Richards 1978:200 ) . |
| 16 | However , the change is taking place at a differential rate which seems to be related to the relative prestige of the various media . |
| 17 | Technical change within the IT sector is taking place at a fast pace as data processing , microchips , telecommunications , image broadcasting and satellite transmission coalesce . |
| 18 | The combination of a higher activity of calcium in bile and precipitation of bile salts taking place at a lower pH in patients with gall stone disease than in patients without gall stones suggests a major role for calcium and pH in the pathogenesis of gall stones . |
| 19 | But those big percentage reductions are taking place at a point on the network where the southern bypass has already reduced the flows , so th those parts of the network would be much less in need of relief . |
| 20 | It was as if things were taking place at a distance , in some dream-like realm . |
| 21 | However , with voting taking place during a severe heatwave , the turnout was only 55.5 per cent of the electorate of some 5,000,000 , compared with 71 per cent in 1986 . |
| 22 | This decline was partly masked in 1920 by an increase in deliveries , but this was because requisitioning was by then taking place over a larger area of the country as a result of the defeat of the White Guard armies . |
| 23 | These varying conditions , all taking place over a comparatively short time , have had spectacular effects on the evolution of the mammals of South-East Asia . |
| 24 | In the United States , a complex wrangle is taking place over a range of possible standards . |
| 25 | Since 1979 , and with increasing impetus since 1989 , negotiations with South Yemen have been taking place towards a merger of the two countries . |
| 26 | As they approached the dais , she became aware that an animated discussion was taking place among a group of half a dozen dons at one end of the long table . |
| 27 | Unlike classical behaviourists , functionalists believe that is not possible to explain intelligent behaviour unless we make reference to processes that are taking place inside a person 's head . |
| 28 | Even in high-dirt content homoerotic love pictures like The Third Love Painting ( 1960 ) , it looks as though the humping is taking place inside a womb-like washing-machine . |
| 29 | Mixing the familiar and the foreign , new and potentially productive connections may be taking place in a number of areas . |
| 30 | It is made by the cuvé close method , with the second fermentation taking place in a tank , rather than the bottle . |