Example sentences of "[v-ing] place at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether the tour ( which overrides a ban on loans in Barnes 's will and was shepherded through the courts by the National Gallery 's director emeritus , J. Carter Brown , and the wealthy collector Walter Annenberg ; see The Art Newspaper No. 15 , February 1992 , p.1 ) should be taking place at all remains a matter of debate . |
| 2 | That the programme was taking place at all was an amazing thing in itself , but when I heard people in the studio audience talking of the need to sacrifice the hostages now for the sake of others in the future , just as they had in Day to Day nine months previously , I wondered why so few people seemed to share my view that we were being duped into believing that teaching the terrorists a lesson was the sole issue . |
| 3 | Even though school generated activities are not taking place at these times judgements are made about the standard of work on display and the general state of order and cleanliness . |
| 4 | The example also illustrates the influence of technology — now that data is easily transferred electronically , typesetting and printing of newspapers is often carried out in different places , with printing taking place at several locations . |
| 5 | A Year at Saltram portrays the enormous varieties of activities taking place at this eighteenth-century house , from concerts and cocktail parties to visitors admiring the statues ( see below ) . |
| 6 | More seriously , it is quite unlikely that the actions of any single archbishop could greatly alter the course or speed of the realignment of secular and ecclesiastical power which was taking place at this time . |