Example sentences of "take place [coord] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 After that no further swelling takes place and the additional water simply adds , very considerably , to the weight of the wood .
2 The learning programme and learning tasks ( possibilities of adapting these to the needs gauged , so that learning can take place and the therapeutic potential of the curriculum be utilised ( no matter how nationally prescribed ) .
3 The difference with Burton came from the scale on which he did it , the talents he gambled , the colossal winnings , the rupturing losses , the public glare in which increasingly it took place and the undeniable fact that in the middle of this maelstrom was always a quiet , reading man whom Cis would have recognised with relief as the boy sitting beside the fire , buried in a book .
4 Much development was taking place and the old landmarks were fast disappearing , so he realised it must be done with some urgency .
5 For one thing , the sheer range and historical variation of the sites where encounters between ‘ white ’ and ‘ other ’ have taken place and the immense variety of specialized and popular discourses that have operated in these encounters have by now put into circulation a multitude of selective images .
6 Conversion of this space has yet to take place and the unlined timber skeleton of the boarded external-wall construction of the upper storeys remains on view to the interior , awaiting its insulation and internal finishes .
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