Example sentences of "held [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 58th British Services International Alpine Ski Championships were held for the second year running in Megève . |
| 2 | If the judges refused to enforce the offensive legislation and an election was held with the same result followed by a reintroduction of the legislation , what would judges then do ? |
| 3 | Only a third of the 15,000,000 people eligible to vote actually did so in the congressional and gubernatorial elections on Oct. 27 , the first to be held under the new Constitution approved in July [ see p. 38332 ] . |
| 4 | A popular form of scheme is the ‘ managed fund ’ , generally administered by insurance companies whereby the funds of several pension funds are combined to form one large portfolio , and the portfolio is often divided into units that are owned by the pension funds , the value of the unit being equal to the market value of the assets held in the whole portfolio divided by the number of units issued . |
| 5 | Birds rarely employ death-feigning but sometimes a small bird held in the human hand has been seen to collapse motionless and lie very still . |
| 6 | The new " Ring " , however , still stages major races and a round the world sports car championship is held over the famous circuit to maintain the long association with one of motor racing 's most forbidding and famous circuits . |
| 7 | Other house sales held over the last month have included Sotheby 's auction on 6 October of English and Continental furniture , paintings and prints , European and Oriental ceramics and works of art , antiquities , silver , books , costumes and textiles , collectors ' items and household furnishings , from Sandon Hall , country seat of the Earls of Harrowby since 1776 . |
| 8 | The CARICOM heads of government meeting held at the same time issued an " unequivocal condemnation " of the events in Port of Spain and 300 troops from CARICOM states were flown to the island on Aug. 3 as a " precautionary move " to protect oil installations [ see p. 37648 ] . |
| 9 | It is clear that the founding treaties , and in particular the EEC Treaty which has by far the broadest scope of the three , have established the Communities and the institutions which enable them to operate ; but more than this , they have been held by the European Court to have set up a new legal system separate from those of the Member States . |