Example sentences of "[v-ing] place [prep] a [noun sg] " 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 | The exercise is taking place on a purpose built village on the Central Ammunitions Depot at Kineton . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was as if things were taking place at a distance , in some dream-like realm . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In the United States , a complex wrangle is taking place over a range of possible standards . |
| 12 | Since 1979 , and with increasing impetus since 1989 , negotiations with South Yemen have been taking place towards a merger of the two countries . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The wedding to which I had been invited was taking place in a village church ten miles the other side of Downshurst , a market town eleven miles from my aunt 's cottage . |
| 16 | It was still possible that this was thermonuclear fusion taking place in a mass of gas moving in the same direction as the current , but other measurements made this seem very unlikely . |
| 17 | Many of New Historicism 's endeavours are shared by the wider questioning of practice that is taking place in a variety of disciplines and theoretical approaches . |
| 18 | The inverse of the use of this sweet spice comes with the kissing of Alison 's arse , " " ful savourly " " ( 3734 – 5 ) and Absolon 's attempts to take the taste of that away : — note here the details appropriate to this action taking place in a carpenter 's yard . |
| 19 | There is no guarantee at all that the former , simply by taking place in a teacher 's place of work , will somehow be more relevant or valuable than the latter ( a point made over a decade ago Alexander 1980 — in the context of a previous incarnation of current debates ) . |
| 20 | It is made by the cuvé close method , with the second fermentation taking place in a tank , rather than the bottle . |
| 21 | The party seemed to be taking place in a room off at the right . |
| 22 | Mixing the familiar and the foreign , new and potentially productive connections may be taking place in a number of areas . |
| 23 | It is another remarkable landmark in an extraordinary career , taking place in a movie that really warrants the achievement . |
| 24 | For example , medical explanations of the ‘ blues ’ tend to favour as the principal causative element biochemical changes taking place in a woman 's body during pregnancy and immediately after birth . |
| 25 | Role conflicts within individual marriages are taking place in a context of rapid social change and all the uncertainties that attend it . |
| 26 | Curran gives the example of wilting , taking place against a medium or dark soil background . |
| 27 | The most startling thing about this is the fact that the crisis in publishing is taking place against a background of an almost limitless book market . |
| 28 | Let us go back to the point about criticism taking place against a background of criteria . |
| 29 | There were few dramatic new developments during October in the Gulf crisis as such , the continuing build-up of the United States-dominated military response taking place against a background of diplomatic activity , of which the most notable feature was an apparently unsuccessful Soviet attempt to find some basis for a peace initiative . |
| 30 | Talks between the government and the ANC had been taking place against a background of mounting violence , particularly in Natal and the townships of the Transvaal , between supporters of the ANC and of Inkatha [ for eventual Mandela-Buthelezi meeting in January 1991 see p. 37951 ] . |