Example sentences of "took place at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The movement from the initial grandly imperative wish for a creative act , reviving an older myth , to the final mundane narrative of the beginning of another , much less magnificent revival of potential creativity promised by ‘ sal volatile/ And a glass of brandy neat ’ is a movement away from a first situation ( that of Ariadne on Naxos ) which we never see in itself ; the painting conjured up and the other parallels to this first situation are interpretations not just of each other , but also of that first situation which , because a ‘ myth ’ and so subject to constant reinterpretation , may never have happened in any of the ways presented , if indeed it ever took place at all . |
| 2 | The Consultation took place at All Saints Pastoral Centre , London Colney , Herts , 7–8 November 1989 . |
| 3 | The real competition , the old-style conception of the battle for survival , may have taken place , if it took place at all , between the plants that provided the reptiles with their food . |
| 4 | Unification if it happens , is likely to be a slow process , but the fact that the visit took place at all is a dramatic break through on one of the last frontiers of the cold war . |
| 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 | There were special services to commemorate the Queen 's death in 1901 as well as ‘ United Communion Services ’ which took place at each National Council . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ( 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 . ) |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | What what took place at these meetings ? |
| 14 | Losses of personal possessions , money and items of kit inevitably took place at these spots . |
| 15 | 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 . |