Example sentences of "took place [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This semi-colonial expansion took place without great enthusiasm in St Petersburg . |
| 2 | But now Chambers insisted that the extensions to growth took place without supernatural interference , so that one species naturally transmuted itself into a higher one at a certain point in time . |
| 3 | Until the last ten years most authors thought that solution seam and stylolite formation took place during deep burial diagenesis . |
| 4 | The exchange took place during Scottish Question time . |
| 5 | Well-planned and executed night attacks on machinery and factories took place over wide districts and a long time span by men who , having set governmental authority at defiance , disappeared back into the community by day . |
| 6 | My first — secretly arranged — meeting with Harrison Ngau took place over early morning tea . |
| 7 | Although dispersals have been made from every library on the list at the end of this book — and , as has been remarked , the list could have been extended to twice its size or more by further random sampling — it is obvious that the dissolutions took place for different reasons , some less culpable than others . |
| 8 | " It is extraordinary that no consultation took place with interested parties before the decision was announced . " |
| 9 | Clashes also took place with pro-panchayat supporters , and several government ministers were reported to be among those throwing stones at the protesters . |
| 10 | Other races took place at various points . |
| 11 | The most controversial change of auditors of the past two years took place at Prudential Corporation . |
| 12 | OUR Confirmation took place at Sacred Heart , Howden . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Two major Jacobite risings , and the plotting which took place on other occasions , were enough to put a considerable number of gentlemen in danger and , indeed , so long as the Jacobite cause retained a substantial following in Scotland it had a further effect upon politics , for the unwillingness of many gentlemen of Jacobite sentiments to take the oaths to Government further limited an already small electorate . |
| 17 | Coleridge lived in London , and never returned to the North of England , so that meetings only took place on rare occasions . |
| 18 | It 's thought , in fact , that they represent areas where ‘ midocean ’ ridges once formed below the continents , in the late stages of continental rifting , but before an ocean proper had opened ( cf. chapter one ) , so in a sense the kind of volcanic activity that is typical of oceanic areas in fact took place on dry land . |
| 19 | General discussion then took place on possible work which the Council members could arrange within the parishes . |
| 20 | By the middle of the nineteenth century , however , twin-sided stations , where arrival and departure took place on opposite sides , were the norm . |
| 21 | Participants were dealing directly with one another and most transactions , particularly in Eurobonds , took place on over-the-counter markets maintained by the major banks in London . |
| 22 | It may be that a judge is well qualified to conduct enquiries to establish what took place on particular occasions . |
| 23 | ( 6 ) The provisions of this Act and of any byelaws or regulations made thereunder , other than provisions relating to permitted hours , shall apply to the sale of alcoholic liquor under subsection ( 1 ) above as if the sale took place on licensed premises and to the sale of alcoholic liquor under subsection ( 2 ) above as if the sale took place in the registered club . |
| 24 | Most of this migration took place along colonial lines — Argentinians such as Alfredo Di Stefano playing for Real Madrid in Spain , Eusebio of Mozambique playing in Portugal for Benfica . |
| 25 | The sub-underwriting arrangements took place before Black Monday ( 19 October 1987 ) , after which Mr Ferriday 's resources became insufficient to meet his needs . |
| 26 | This myth can be countered in its own terms : first by pointing out that the impressive economic performance of countries like Indonesia and the Philippines , whose per capita incomes have grown by an average of 3.0% a year in the last few decades , took place alongside rapid population growth ; second by showing that Africa 's ten richest countries have similar population growth rates to the continent 's ten poorest countries . |
| 27 | Extensive informal consultations then took place among senior party leaders , and on May 29 the CWC unanimously elected as the new party president P. V. Narasimha Rao , 70 , a southerner who had served in cabinets under Indira and Rajiv Gandhi . |
| 28 | Discussions about my future took place behind closed doors , and sometimes in my presence as though I was n't there . |
| 29 | Any arguments — and one knows that there were some — took place behind closed doors , while a united front was presented to the world . |
| 30 | The beneficial effect of the diets supplemented with polyunsaturated fatty acids was only observed when the acid challenge took place after mild acid irritation , suggesting that the dietary manipulation increased the ability of the mucosa to promote a defensive mechanism against the acid challenge . |