Example sentences of "[vb -s] [be] hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party reacted with unnecessary embarrassment and defensiveness to government attacks on general talks it has been holding with the Greens , and its desire , as part of its traditional Ostpolitik , to press on with contacts with the Communist party in East Berlin despite the sudden surge of open opposition to the government by East German citizens . |
| 2 | Labour 's bash will be at 4 Millbank , where it has been holding its morning press conferences . |
| 3 | BRISTOL CITY striker Andy Cole yesterday denied that he has been holding back since the club rejected a £600,000 offer from Nottingham Forest . |
| 4 | And then she said : ‘ Mebbe he 's one of that gang that has been holding up grocery stores . ’ |
| 5 | The outstanding performers were Scott Loftus , of Old Loughts , who scored four , and Old Felstedians Chris Maitland and Paul Surridge , who has been holding down a place with National League First Division outfit Canterbury since leaving school . |
| 6 | Hewlett-Packard Co has been holding talks with Steve Jobs ' NeXT Inc about licensing the NeXTstep environment , according to a report last week in the New York Times . |
| 7 | Sotheby 's has been holding sales in Hong Kong since 1973 , starting initially with porcelain and then , in 1976 , offering a separate painting category ; the initial one sale a year was extended into two annual sales in each category . |
| 8 | Yet we have already found in Chapter 2 that the UK has , relatively speaking , been suffering from declining international competitiveness as a place in which goods are actually made , though it has been holding its own in providing financial services on a world scale , and is prosperous enough , for example , to have a demand for hypermarkets on the international model . |
| 9 | CARN has been holding conferences about every 18 months since 1976 . |
| 10 | Their leader , James Molyneaux , has been holding meetings with business and community leaders — not involved in politics — to devise a ‘ blueprint for stability ’ . |
| 11 | Regional Council president Gérard Longuet has been holding discussions on this agreement since June not only with Les Verts but also with Génération Ecologie , two of whose six representatives also announced their support for his administration . |
| 12 | The Education Secretary , Kenneth Clarke , has been holding crisis talks after the Lords threw out two Government proposals in the Education ( Schools ) Bill . |
| 13 | The Bugatti Owners Club has been holding meetings at Prescott Hill near Cheltenham for more than half a century . |
| 14 | To mark its fiftieth birthday the Oxford-based charity Oxfam has been holding a fashion show with a difference . |
| 15 | East Belfast-based midfielder Keery ( 28 ) has been holding out for a better deal than the one on offer . |
| 16 | The call came yesterday from Peter Seaman , the new president of the National Federation of Retail Newsagents , which this week has been holding its annual conference in Llandudno . |
| 17 | Well he said Mike must have said , what has been holding it up if I , we were under the impression that when she left London , she was finished with her property |
| 18 | Among the hundreds of those held without charge or trial in Syria are the following who have appeared in the Letter Writing Campaign : Hakem Sultan al-Faiz , a 61-year-old Jordanian national and former member of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party , who has been held for almost 20 years ; Ahmad ‘ Abd al-Rau'uf Roummou , a 55-year-old teacher , arrested in 1975 ; Muhammad Nabil Salem , an engineer , arrested in the wake of a one-day national strike in 1980 and Mahmud Jalbut , a Palestinian arrested in 1980 . |
| 19 | Earnings per share for the first half were reduced to 5.47p , against 7.83p last time , but the interim dividend has been held at 1.5p . |
| 20 | David Ormerod , a geology lecturer at the Open University , has been held in Oradea , Romania , for the past three days , after being picked up at the main crossing point into Hungary . |
| 21 | Daphne Parish , a British nurse , has been held incommunicado since last month for giving information on casualties caused by an explosion at an Iraqi missile plant in August . |
| 22 | There is much local opposition to this scheme and a public meeting has been held to get a campaign going . |
| 23 | Earlier , the director of the United Nations Transitional Assistance Group ( Untag ) , Irish-born Mr Cedric Thornberry , described the election as freer than any poll that has been held in West Belfast . |
| 24 | Christopher Huhne 's economics column has been held over until tomorrow . |
| 25 | Outlook has been held over because of lack of space . |
| 26 | In such a case an adult might be held liable either for breach of his contract to use proper care or for a wrong independent of the contract ; an infant has been held not to be liable at all . |
| 27 | The rules of a society and the trusts which bind its property will , in many cases , fetter its freedom of action and the application of its property , in a way very similar to the restrictions which the doctrine of ultra vires imposes on a corporation ; and in the case of some unincorporated societies , such as registered Trade Unions and Friendly Societies , which have received a peculiar status by Statute , the rule of ultra vires has been held directly applicable . |
| 28 | The occupier of a private house ( but not the owner of a house who had never entered into possession of it ) would probably be considered to be in possession of anything placed or left in it — at any rate unless it was concealed — while the occupier of a shop has been held not to be in possession of a thing dropped in a part of the shop to which the public had access . |
| 29 | Since 1973 , an annual conference devoted to the applications of computing and mathematics to archaeology has been held at varying locations in Britain . |
| 30 | One consequence of the breadth of this definition is that it has been held to cover psychological harm — where D causes V to become hysterical or to suffer substantial fear or fright , for example . |