1.   A lot of building took place without due consideration for the effect it would have on the area.

2.   He needs to be in a place without the extreme pressure.

3.   In this sense the world would be a better place without mental retardation, madness, and senile dementia.

4.   It is difficult to conceive of such thinking taking place without the growth and development of intellectual ability.

5.   Successful though holidays May be they would not take place without a large bank balance.

6.   The third lesson is that local economic development can not take place without an overall strategy for national and regional development.

7.   All such contacts, however, took place without identifying major common ground between Iraq and the anti-Iraqi coalition.

8.   Despite a warning of further violence if Simon did not abandon his concerts, they took place without incident.

9.   Such a contribution cannot be assessed, but assuredly, the research could not take place without it.