Example sentences of "place at a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 In the end we had to settle for a hurried and depressing buffet in the North British Hotel , with a menu which would not have been out of place at a Sunday-school picnic .
3 A similar , if less dramatic , process ‘ was taking place at a lower level ; new urban districts were being carved out of the rural districts ’ ( Keith-Lucas and Richards 1978:200 ) .
4 The combination of a higher activity of calcium in bile and precipitation of bile salts taking place at a lower pH in patients with gall stone disease than in patients without gall stones suggests a major role for calcium and pH in the pathogenesis of gall stones .
5 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 .
6 This cleaning takes place at a definite cleaning station , usually by a large rock or near some other bold feature on the sea bed .
7 However , the change is taking place at a differential rate which seems to be related to the relative prestige of the various media .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 ‘ Sandra Riverton was killed at a remote place at a remote hour .
12 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 .
13 He was sentenced to two years in prison , and was ordered to pay back to the state several thousand Swiss francs which he had used illegally to arrange a place at a Swiss university for Zhivkov 's grandson [ see p. 38017 ] .
14 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 .
15 The infrastructure to usher in the brave new world of interactive multimedia applications is being put in place at a breakneck pace in the US , and Englewood , Colorado cable television operator Tele-Communications Inc has just announced plans to invest $1,900m to install fibre optic cable in 250 cities , towns and counties by 1996 .
16 ( 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 .
17 The problem essentially is that you have got simultaneously to account credibly for someone not being at a certain place at a certain time and to account for them precisely being there .
18 Even if he is murdered by a homicidal maniac he has chosen to be at a certain place at a certain time .
19 The deal took place at a public inquiry in 1981 , when the owner , Wedgwood , was applying for a second time for consent to demolish .
20 A place at grammar school was seen as hardly more genuinely open to everyone than a fee-paying place at a public school ; and so the move towards comprehensive schools was made , largely on grounds of justice .
21 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 .
22 ( An event in this sense is something that takes place at a single point in space , at a specified point in time . )
23 Cross-sectional studies take place at a single point of time ( although the ‘ point ’ may in practice cover several months ) .
24 If the reconnection were to take place at a steady rate , the ion energy would show a continuous latitudinal dispersion .
25 Puddephat had refused to take his place at a formal dinner to welcome the new master of his college because he had been placed opposite Dr Theodore Sykes , a fellow member of the English faculty .
26 The basic idea is that in order to study a single linguistic feature , the investigator will elicit a set word or phrase in entirely naturalistic conditions from persons who happen to be in a given place at a given time .
27 Without concentrations of activity at a given place at a given time there would be no patterns , no spatial or areal differentiation .
28 So doing the foundation course here gives me the chance to get a place at a Czech University .
29 Technical change within the IT sector is taking place at a fast pace as data processing , microchips , telecommunications , image broadcasting and satellite transmission coalesce .
30 It follows that behind every statement we make about the historical Jesus there has to be a tacit qualification : ‘ We are told this by such-and-such an evangelist , writing in a particular literary mode , far a particular audience , in a particular place at a particular period of history . ’
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