Example sentences of "held [noun] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have held meetings during the past week with potential recruits , although who will take over the chair is not clear . |
| 2 | Kyffin Williams is known for his strongly held views on the current state of much art . |
| 3 | Something about an Iron Casket that had held secrets of the Ancient Past … |
| 4 | Formerly with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , he has held posts at the British Embassy in Madrid and the Western European department , Whitehall . |
| 5 | On balance Voltaire 's maxim that the poor could have no patrie probably still held sound for the vast majority of Belorussian peasants in early NEP . |
| 6 | His rise to prominence in political leadership was punctuated by long periods of withdrawal enforced by the colonial government : in this respect he was like Nehru during these same years , also held incommun-icado by the colonial power . |
| 7 | Strongly held beliefs at the individual level may not be maintained when describing health at the societal level and vice versa . |
| 8 | Between 1928 and 1939 Nizan was to experience the bitter reality of communist party membership , the ever-present difficulty of reconciling intellectually coherent and genuinely held beliefs with the tactical manoeuvring and politically expedient policies of a party attempting to survive the twists and turns of history in a highly unpredictable socio-political climate . |
| 9 | It is a mistake to imagine that resolutions passed at trade union conferences represent the most deeply held feelings of the entire membership . |
| 10 | Some of the practices of the colonial state were re-introduced , including corporal punishment , and some of those elected to village councils were rejected on the grounds that they had held positions under the previous regime . |
| 11 | It was not so much Jacobite principle that led to Nonjurism , but rather a sincerely held belief about the inviolable nature of oaths . |
| 12 | There were several prominent Anglophobes in Truman 's Administration , like James Byrnes , the Secretary of State , but most of the opposition stemmed from the widely held belief within the American electorate that the United States should guard its lead , if not monopoly , in military and civil uses of atomic energy . |
| 13 | Although the Chinese have held jade in the highest regard for a matter of five thousand years and carried its symbolic use to levels of sophistication far beyond that of other peoples , no natural deposits are yet known from within the ancient limits of their country . |
| 14 | a pattern of change and influence in considerable contrast to the more widely held image of the Georgian squire as a wine-swilling glutton intent largely on the pleasures of the chase . |
| 15 | An ECOWAS delegation had held talks with the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi , in Tripoli on Nov. 21 . |
| 16 | The current President , Fidel Castro Ruz , has held office since the socialist revolution of January 1959 . |
| 17 | Both had been active in the 1976 movement of dissent , and Wang had subsequently held office in the Communist Party . |