Example sentences of "[vb past] place at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other races took place at various points . |
| 2 | The most controversial change of auditors of the past two years took place at Prudential Corporation . |
| 3 | OUR Confirmation took place at Sacred Heart , Howden . |
| 4 | The Consultation took place at All Saints Pastoral Centre , London Colney , Herts , 7–8 November 1989 . |
| 5 | Would it be possible for the Civil Service college to illustrate , by means of that example , what should not happen , and to demonstrate the amount of abuse that took place at that point in our history ? |
| 6 | We to say was aware of the practice in May of nineteen ninety two but I am not clear er as to what took place at that stage because we have n't as yet looked into that . |
| 7 | Some of the worst atrocities of the Yugoslav civil war took place at two camps based at a brick factory and a pig farm near Brcko , 75 miles north of Sarajevo . |
| 8 | The Great Debate took place at two levels . |
| 9 | In the traditional archive the storage of documents and their use usually took place at one location , but this need not be the pattern of organisation maintained for electronic archives . |
| 10 | When the first 120 miles of the East India Railway were opened from Calcutta to Raniganj in 1855 , the ceremony took place at Burdwan station , a long classical structure 66 miles from Calcutta . |
| 11 | Much business took place at second hand , and by delegates , and the curia was not anxious to investigate every case on the spot . |
| 12 | The first connection took place at 1127 hours on Friday 22nd January , and output had reached 112 MW on 24th January when due to severe weather conditions the National Grid was disconnected from Dounreay and PFR tripped . |
| 13 | There can be no doubt that something of this sort took place at this time in Montreal , and that it forms one of the subconscious inputs in the growing boy 's development , along with the high family traditions and the significance of his names . |
| 14 | ( Unfortunately , there is no hint of the conversations that took place at this time between Lloyd George and Mr Thomas as they took their daily morning walk ‘ across the park ’ from the underground station at Westminster . ) |
| 15 | Major changes in the way we conceptualize Nature certainly took place at this time , but historians now suspect that the emergence of Darwin 's theory should not be treated as the only watershed dividing the old way of thinking from the new . |
| 16 | It is quite likely therefore that a meeting of Lambarde and Shakespeare took place at this time , although it was n't until 1594 that Shakespeare made his mark , for it was at Christmas of that year that he was Summoned to appear at Court . |
| 17 | Gregory and others saw in certain happenings which took place at this time the workings of divine providence : on one occasion the boat carrying one of his opponents sank ; on another a supporter was miraculously freed from prison ; and throughout his trial the princess Rigunth fasted on his behalf . |
| 18 | What what took place at these meetings ? |
| 19 | Losses of personal possessions , money and items of kit inevitably took place at these spots . |
| 20 | Actual railway operations , however , did not begin until 5 January 1904 , when a special train left Oswestry for the ceremony which took place at Porthywaen Station . |
| 21 | The magazine report says overhead glass-pane explosions took place at seven shopping centres , including The Forge , and at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre in Glasgow . |
| 22 | More branches than ever joined in six hundred and seventy four in all and collections took place at more Tesco 's than ever , two hundred and twenty five . |
| 23 | They lacked the bitterness and sterility of the debates on Party discipline , Communist affiliation and the United Front which took place at subsequent Party Conferences . |