Example sentences of "were held [prep] [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | TWO health & safety seminars were held during February for site managers and safety co-ordinators . |
| 2 | The Northern Independent Schools trials were held at Bolton on Sunday , and a team was named for this Sunday 's match against Cheshire . |
| 3 | ‘ Swainmotes ’ were held at Weybridge in Huntingdon Forest at Midsummer , Michaelmas and Martinmas in the middle of the fifteenth century , but only a few presentments of venison trespasses by husbandmen were presented by the foresters before the verderers between 1451 and 1455 . |
| 4 | Fighting also broke out on the Bari dockside , where approximately 3,000 deportees were held under guard in temperatures of 35 degrees Centigrade . |
| 5 | The elections in south Korea were held amid charges of corruption , intimidation , impersonation and the familiar concomitants of the supposedly democratic processes . |
| 6 | The elections were held after attempts by Talabani and Barzani to negotiate a new autonomy agreement with the Iraqi government reached a stalemate in the autumn of 1991 . |
| 7 | Prior to the start of the second round elsewhere , Lok Sabha and State Assembly elections were held in Assam on June 6 and 8 [ see below for detailed results ] . |
| 8 | Similar talks were held in Kiev on Oct. 19-20 between Gates and high-ranking officials from the Ukrainian security services . |
| 9 | Other talks on the safe disposal of nuclear weapons were held in Kiev between US and Ukrainian defence officials on Oct. 12 . |
| 10 | Refugee talks were held in Ottawa on May 13-15 , chaired by Canada and attended by some 35 delegations . |
| 11 | Iran had once seized American hostages , and was an enemy ; but the American hostages at issue in 1985 and 1986 were held in Lebanon by Hizbollah , a fanatical group merely sympathetic to Iran , and Iran 's good offices were necessary to deal with them . |
| 12 | Elections were held in Georgia on Oct. 11 for a new parliament and parliamentary chairman . |
| 13 | During the year to mid-1991 by-elections were held in Knowsley on Sept. 27 , 1990 ( held by Labour with an increased percentage over the Conservatives ) ; in Eastbourne on Oct. 18 , ( won by the Liberal Democrats — see p. 37784 ) ; in Bootle and Bradford on Nov. 8 , and in Paisley North and Paisley South on Nov. 29 ( when Labour retained all four seats ; in the Scottish constituencies the SNP advanced from fourth to second ) ; in Ribble Valley on March 7 , 1991 ( won by the Liberal Democrats — see p. 38110 ) ; in Neath on April 4 ( when Labour retained the seat despite a large swing to Plaid Cymru — see p. 38200 ) ; in Monmouth on May 16 ( when Labour won the seat from the exports — $2,500 ) ; and in Liverpool Walton on July 4 ( when Labour retained the seat and the Conservatives came fourth — see p. 38355 ) . |
| 14 | Multilateral negotiations on regional economic co-operation were held in Paris on Oct. 29-30 . |
| 15 | Demonstrations were held in favour of Havel 's appeal , including a meeting of 50,000 people in Prague on Nov. 21 . |
| 16 | In January-February 1987 separate talks were held in Moscow with Pakistan , Afghanistan and Iran . |
| 17 | US-Russian negotiations on a joint global ballistic missile defence system [ see pp. 38744-45 ; 38792 ] were held in Moscow on July 13-14 . |
| 18 | Talks between the Group of Seven ( G-7 ) industrialized countries deputy finance ministers and Soviet republics were held in Moscow on Nov. 18-21 on the Soviet debt issue . |
| 19 | In the last 15 years of Charles 's reign , at least four winter assemblies were held in civitates in Francia . |
| 20 | Peace talks between the Ethiopian government and the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) were held in Washington on Feb. 21-22 . |
| 21 | Regional arms control talks were held in Washington on May 11-12 and chaired by Russia . |
| 22 | The 45th annual joint meetings of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) were held in Washington on Sept. 25-27 . |
| 23 | Upon their submission , the Westphalians were held in check by garrisons at two large Frankish camps , at Eresburg and Sigiburg . |
| 24 | These tensions were held in check by Edward IV but he did nothing to resolve them , and after his death they erupted into the faction struggle which cost Edward V his throne . |
| 25 | These tensions were held in check by Edward IV but he did nothing to resolve them , and after his death they erupted into the faction struggle which cost Edward V his throne . |
| 26 | Four troops of yeomanry were held in reserve in Luton but were not needed . |
| 27 | Emergency summits were held in May in Baghdad [ see p. 37472-73 ] and in August in Cairo , when the continued existence of the League in its existing format , was cast into serious doubt following divisions over Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait [ see p. 37635 ] . |
| 28 | Groups of primary elections were held in Nigeria on Sept. 12 , 19 and 26 , and were contested by candidates seeking the presidential nominations of the country 's two military-backed political parties — the National Republican Convention ( NRC ) and the Social Democratic Party ( SDP ) . |
| 29 | The fifth round of bilateral boundary talks between Bhutan and China were held in Beijing on May 10-14 , 1988 [ for previous talks see pp. 35384 ; 34175 ] . |
| 30 | At least nine other Sharpeville Day rallies were held in townships around Johannesburg , some organised by the ANC and others by the rival Zulu-oriented Inkatha Freedom Party . |