Example sentences of "a [noun sg] held [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picture was taken at a function held in the Bridge House , Tullamore , on Friday 12th February 1993 . |
| 2 | In a referendum held by the Amsterdam City Council on March 25 , a total of 53 per cent of those voting approved a proposal to ban cars and vans from the city centre . |
| 3 | Brown had fallen miserably in love ( so he said ) with a girl named Betty Fowler , whom he 'd met one Friday evening at a hop held in the Oxford Town Hall , and already on their second meeting they had vowed a mutual , eternal love . |
| 4 | The award was presented by TV newsreader John Humphrys at a ceremony held at the Grosvenor House Hotel in Park Lane . |
| 5 | At midnight on Oct. 2-3 the FRG flag was raised at a ceremony held outside the Reichstag ( the former German parliament ) in Berlin . |
| 6 | at a ceremony held in the Passenger Reception Hall in the Western Harbour on 21st November . |
| 7 | I met him at a dance held in the Airmen 's Mess ( so romantic ! ) , when I 'd only been at Binbrook three weeks . |
| 8 | The highlight of a carnival held in the State of Virginia was a show modestly titled the G-String Revue . |
| 9 | The findings of a recent mission to Japan to study developments in neural computing and parallel processing were reported at a meeting held at the Café Royal on the 4th December . |
| 10 | LASMO Canada 's shareholders have approved a change in the company 's name at a meeting held at the end of October . |
| 11 | In October 1944 , Lord Knollys , the BOAC chairman , told a meeting held in the Ministry of Aircraft production that the Brabazon Type 3 would be the airline 's ‘ bread and butter ’ aircraft for Empire routes , carrying twenty-five sleepers or forty to forty-five day passengers . |
| 12 | Even the Fabian Society Executive made a similar decision , though at a meeting held in the middle of the summer and therefore poorly attended . |
| 13 | Minutes of a meeting held in the Glasgow Polytechnic on Wednesday 4 November 1992 at 5.15 pm . |
| 14 | ABJECTION , Melancholia and Love is , with three additions , the proceedings of a conference held at the University of Warwick in 1957 on the works of Julia Kristeva . |
| 15 | The first meeting of the committee received a resolution from a conference held under the auspices of the society and the Canning Town branch of the guild which rejoiced in the wider powers given under the act , and urged the council to ‘ take steps to exercise any , or all of the powers given , and especially that steps be taken as soon as possible to establish a creche or day nursery in the southern part of the borough ’ ( Maternity and Child Welfare Committee Minutes 20 November 18 ) . |
| 16 | Eventually at a conference held on the frontier between Gisors and Trie on 6 December 1183 Philip agreed to let Henry keep the Norman Vexin on condition that he paid Margaret an annual pension of 2700 livres and on the understanding that he granted it to whichever of his sons married Alice . |
| 17 | Though he was questioned from time to time about radical plots and was even for a while held in the Tower , his claim to be moved now by conscience and not by political faction seems to have been accepted . |
| 18 | Social events included a Ball held in the Management Centre in November , a Sports Fun Day in May and events organised by individual departments to welcome back former staff and students . |
| 19 | King Harald , who succeeded to the throne on his father 's death in Jan. 17 , 1991 , and was sworn in on Jan. 21 [ see p. 37967 ] , was blessed in a service held at the Nidaros cathedral in Trondheim on June 23 . |
| 20 | At a symposium held at the Warburg Insitute in March to demonstrate the capabilities of the computerised census to a distinguished array of international scholars there was much enthusiasm , but there were reservations . |
| 21 | Blanked out from the copy of the score shown in illus.4 presumably in the 1790s was a fleur-de-lys held by the cupid . |
| 22 | Brian Lane ( schoolteacher ) : ‘ One thing I remember about David was something that he did n't take part in , which was a concert held at the school in aid of a pavilion that was being put up by the parents and teachers , and being paid for by them . |
| 23 | The task took some considerable time as each bone was labelled according to a blueprint held by the archaeologist . |
| 24 | Paris bound : Paul Williamson , a chef at the Stormont Hotel , Belfast with his mouth-watering pork Craigantlet Creel dish which won him the Hastings Ulster Pork Challenge title at a competition held in the Belfast Institute of Further and Higher Education . |
| 25 | At a hearing held by the Commission in November 1991 , the majority of national experts agreed that there should be a threshold ranging from ECU150 to 1,000 ( £107-£714 ; $186–$1240 ) . |
| 26 | The President 's choice to succeed Mr Frohnmayer must be confirmed by the Subcommittee on Education , Arts and the Humanities , then pass a hearing held by the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources , before going on to a Senate vote . |
| 27 | Since 1213 when King John tactically surrendered the kingdom to Pope Innocent III and received it back as a fief held of the papacy , the English crown had owed the pope an annual tribute of a thousand marks ( £666 6/ 8d ) . |
| 28 | All these poignant images and many more were presented during the course of a colloquium held at the Fondation Marcel Mérieux near Annecy , France , last weekend . |
| 29 | Gillian Bulloch , a relief manager for CCG Catering in the east of Scotland , was the lucky winner of a raffle held at the Leonard Cheshire Foundation home , Glamis House in Glenrothes . |
| 30 | Among the fund raising activities organised was a raffle held by the PR department . |