Example sentences of "[verb] place at a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This cleaning takes place at a definite cleaning station , usually by a large rock or near some other bold feature on the sea bed . |
| 2 | It has been argued by Clegg ( 1976 ) that in terms of the causal direction of the relationship it is the level of bargaining which determines the degree of centralisation , with the result that power is decentralised within organisations when bargaining takes place at a decentralised level , and vice versa . |
| 3 | The second method for regeneration to be initiated is by a time clock , so that it takes place at a convenient time such as during the night . |
| 4 | ( An event in this sense is something that takes place at a single point in space , at a specified point in time . ) |
| 5 | In order to avoid disputes and unnecessary duplication of effort , where work requires remeasurement this will take place at a joint meeting of the builder 's surveyor and the sub-contractor . |
| 6 | While this is not insignificant ( a weakness of the lecture or the teacher-directed lesson is that it must take place at a pre-set time irrespective of student readiness ) it is hardly Liberty Hall . |
| 7 | Labour 's National Executive Committee agreed last night that the leadership contest should take place at a special conference on July 18 . |
| 8 | Besides a number of activities which took place at a regional level , many more were carried on throughout the year by its corporate and personal members . |
| 9 | These are not , however , the same kind of truth ; for the first holds for all time and every place , whereas the second has to do with a specific event which as a matter of fact took place at a particular point in history . |
| 10 | The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish . |
| 11 | However , the change is taking place at a differential rate which seems to be related to the relative prestige of the various media . |
| 12 | Technical change within the IT sector is taking place at a fast pace as data processing , microchips , telecommunications , image broadcasting and satellite transmission coalesce . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Central Bank liberalized its foreign exchange regulations on Feb. 1 , 1990 , eliminating the system which required all transactions to go through the bank and to take place at a fixed daily rate . |
| 16 | The first such inspection was due to take place at a civilian chemical enterprise in St Petersburg , which Western military experts suspected was used as a cover for illicit military work . |
| 17 | ( 5 ) Where under a contract of sale the transfer of the property in the goods is to take place at a future time or subject to some condition later to be fulfilled the contract is called an agreement to sell . |
| 18 | If the reconnection were to take place at a steady rate , the ion energy would show a continuous latitudinal dispersion . |
| 19 | A 20Mb/second SCSI-2 interface connects the host system and the array , allowing backup to take place at a sustained rate of 3.5Gb per hour . |
| 20 | Cross-sectional studies take place at a single point of time ( although the ‘ point ’ may in practice cover several months ) . |