Example sentences of "held [prep] the [noun] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Chancellor Kohl said he would prefer the December inter-governmental conference to be held after the West German election , Mrs Thatcher intervened and said : ‘ But Mr Chancellor , my elections are due the following year . ’ |
| 2 | When Chancellor Kohl said he would prefer the inter-governmental conference to be held after the West German election , Mrs Thatcher said : ‘ But Mr Chancellor , my elections are due the following year . ’ |
| 3 | The notice of the Portadown Methodist Watchnight Service for 31 December 1848 is worth quoting in full : ‘ You are affectionately invited to attend the above service which will be held in the Portadown Wesleyan Chapel in Thomas Street on Sunday , 31st December 1848 , to commence at 10 o'clock p.m. and to continue till the commencement of the New Year . |
| 4 | The exploration of these and other everyday questions was the basis of an unusual dinner party held in the University last term : a Scientific Dinner Party organised by the Department of Continuing Education as one of its extensive programme of Day Schools . |
| 5 | At the end of May the first meeting of the London and South East branch of the S.D.R.R.S. was held in the Camden Irish Centre and it is hoped that this branch and its members will make a valuable contribution to the restoration effort . |
| 6 | At the sixth round of Premiers ' talks held in the North Korean capital Pyongyang on Feb. 19-20 , Premier Yon Hyong Muk of North Korea and Prime Minister Chung Won Shik of South Korea , formally exchanged signed copies of the Agreement on Reconciliation , Non-aggression and Co-operation between the South and the North and the Joint Declaration of the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula , thus bringing into effect the terms of the two accords which had been reached in talks between the two sides in December 1991 [ see pp. 38659-60 ] . |
| 7 | Neither is it always wet ; again , the forests of Queensland can at times be very dry ( and the tops — the canopy — where the leaves are held in the sun all day , must endure conditions that would stress a cactus ) . |
| 8 | It 's been held in the town each year for decades , but this time local people say it 's got out of hand and is ruining the area . |
| 9 | It 's been held in the town each year for decades , but this time local people say it 's got out of hand and is ruining the area . |
| 10 | Mihnea Marmeliuc , who returned as Minister of Labour and Social Security ( a post he had held in the NSF provisional government in January-June 1990 ) , immediately after his nomination was disowned by his National Liberal Party ( the second largest opposition party in parliament after the Hungarian Democratic Union ) ; the NLP had called a week before the reshuffle for the creation of an all-party coalition government . |
| 11 | President Rakhmon Nabiyev , however , did not attend the signing ceremony , which was held in the Badakhshan Autonomous Republic in Tajikistan ( formerly the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous oblast or region ) . |
| 12 | All the sales , service and administration staff came down by coach to Felcourt , and the service meeting was held on the journey one way and sales the other . |
| 13 | I asked the Home Secretary to list the kinds of information currently held on the police national computer under the data class of warning signals . |
| 14 | Tutor groups will be held at the Colne High School with workshops to explain the changes to parents . |
| 15 | Mr Millan is speaking at a lunch to be held at the SAS Royal Hotel in Brussels to celebrate the new venture , which is the first official joint undertaking of the two law societies [ which represent solicitors in their two jurisdictions ] . |
| 16 | held at the Trinità de' Pellegrini , Rome , in Holy Week . |
| 17 | Reed spokesman Ian Melville denied that the event had been cancelled , but admitted that a number of options were under consideration : one being the merger of the event with the bi-annual Communications Solutions Show , to be held at the Birmingham National Exhibition Centre next Spring . |
| 18 | The Society 's Annual Dinner will be held at the Birmingham Medical Institute , at 7.00 pm the same evening . |
| 19 | The Overseas Meeting will be held at the Birmingham Medical Institute on Friday 28 September , from 9.30 am . |
| 20 | The Society of Freelance Editors and Proofreaders has published an edited transcript of its ‘ Business in Europe ’ seminar held at the London International Book Fair last March . |
| 21 | The two other residential courses , both ‘ Working in Teams ’ were weekend events based around outdoor activities and held at the Dounans Outdoor Centre , Aberfoyle . |
| 22 | A report in the Middle East Economic Digest of July 13 stated that if prices held at the July 3 level ( $16.03 per barrel of Brent and $13.75 per barrel of Dubai crude ) then Iraq 's current-account deficit for 1990 would be US$3,500 million ; however , if the OPEC reference price of $18 a barrel , introduced in 1987 , was achieved then the 1990 deficit would be halved . |
| 23 | A combined summer fair and car boot sale will be held at the Carmel Comprehensive School , The Headlands , Darlington , tomorrow . |
| 24 | The course was held at the Darlington Deaf Club , which meets in rooms above St Mary 's Association Club on Raby Terrace . |
| 25 | A nationwide network offering advice to professional women on a range of issues , from sexual harassment in the workplace to setting up childcare arrangements , was one of a number of imaginative proposals to emerge from Workplace 2000 , a lunchtime meeting held by the Institute last month . |