Example sentences of "held [prep] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that I will have an opportunity to meet many students in the forthcoming series of meetings being held through the regional actuarial societies . |
| 2 | Stein 's book may have influenced the initial formulation of Marx 's conception of the proletariat in capitalist society ( Avineri , 1972 , pp. 53–5 ) , but whether that is so or not it did undoubtedly express in a very clear and forceful way ideas which were widely held about the dominant political issues in nineteenth-century European societies ; to such an extent that the social movement came to be largely identified , especially in Germany , with the labour movement . |
| 3 | In February 1990 a meeting was held between the then Prime Minister Miklós Németh , the then acting President Matyás Szürös and opposition party representatives , to discuss the period up to the March-April multiparty parliamentary elections , [ for which see pp. 37325 ; 37380 ] . |
| 4 | Frantic consultations were held between the few surviving princes , the Chief Priest of the Shrine of Asuryan and the Captain of the Phoenix Guard . |
| 5 | MDC noted that a Younger Chemists ' reception would be held during the 1992 annual congress and that Ciba-Geigy had agreed to provide sponsorship . |
| 6 | But the first auctions to be held after the traditional annual Christmas and January economic freeze showed the market to be surprisingly buoyant . |
| 7 | The trees grabbed at him with twiggy fingers as he rose up through them , lurching this way and that in the gusts , and then he felt himself held against the invisible rushing breast of the long Wind , as she hurled moaning along the sky . |
| 8 | The region comprised a non-contiguous amalgamation of Sulu , the Tawi Tawi island group and the mainland Mindanao provinces of Maguindanao and Lanao del Sur ( the four provinces had approved the autonomy plan in the November 1989 referendum held in the 13 southern provinces of the Philippines — see p. 37042 ) . |
| 9 | The calendar below shows the 13 dazzling international exhibitions being held in the 12,000 square metre exhibition hall . |
| 10 | Malcolm Toon , a special US envoy inquiring into US prisoners of war still held in the former Soviet Union , was quoted on July 1 as saying that he had found no evidence to substantiate the claims made by Russian President Boris Yeltsin in June [ see p. 38986 ] . |
| 11 | Toon had been quoted in July as saying that he had found no evidence to substantiate claims that US POWs were still being held in the former Soviet Union [ see p. 39031 ] . |
| 12 | Yesterday , Paddy and the artist Pandora Sellars , who drew the illustrations for the stamps , were at the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow to publicise the issue , which celebrates the conference being held in the city-based Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre at the end of the month . |
| 13 | In Nigeria the foreign investors ' share is now about 20 per cent , with the bulk of the remainder held in the Nigerian private sector ; the localization legislation created over one million individual shareholders . |
| 14 | Occasionally Asian dollars are used to describe US$ held in the Asian financial centres . |
| 15 | The successful and popular London Original Print Fair runs from 25 to 28 February and will be held in the left-hand principal rooms of the Royal Academy . |
| 16 | St Colmcille 's Church is still being repaired after an arson attack , and Mass was held in the adjoining parochial hall , which was packed to overflowing . |
| 17 | I ended up lying in the scrubby grass at the bottom of the hill , my knuckles white as I throttled the rabbit , swinging it in front of my face with its neck held on the thin black line of rubber tubing , now tied like a knot on a black string . |
| 18 | Typical of his account is the picture he gives of the festival held at the great Sufi shrine of the Qadam Sharif , which sheltered the supposed Footprint of the Holy Prophet . |
| 19 | Further copies may be held at the local public library . |
| 20 | Several Cabinet ministers will address the two-day gathering which is being held at the Royal International Pavilion in Llangollen for the first time . |
| 21 | This year , Britain 's bi-annual stamp exhibition will be held at the Royal Horticultural Halls , from 25th February to 1st March , and from 20th to 25th October . |
| 22 | A one day conference on Community Enterprise in Higher Education was held at the Royal British Hotel , Edinburgh on November 18th 1992 . |
| 23 | The course will be held at The Royal Entomological Society , For further information contact the Study Centre |
| 24 | However , Macedonia 's internal divisions were highlighted by a referendum held by the ethnic Albanian minority in Macedonia on Jan. 11-12 , in which 99.9 per cent voted for territorial and political autonomy . |
| 25 | Under the 1980 Constitution legislative power is held by the unicameral National Assembly , comprising 65 members ( 53 elected for five years by universal adult suffrage , on the basis of proportional representation , and 12 regional representatives ) while executive power is held by the President . |
| 26 | Under the 1976 Constitution legislative authority is held by the unicameral National Assembly of People 's Power , whose 510 members are indirectly elected every five years , most recently in 1986 , by popularly elected local assemblies . |
| 27 | Under the 1976 Constitution , legislative authority is held by the unicameral National Assembly of People 's Power , whose 510 members are indirectly elected every five years , most recently in 1986 , by popularly elected local assemblies . |
| 28 | The UN Charter would have to be amended to provide for a special security council which would not , presumably , include the rights of veto held by the five permanent members of the existing security council . |
| 29 | The education of rational leaders would entail the elimination of church censorship upon freedom of thought — a radical point for Freud to make in the context of Austria , and the strong position held by the Roman Catholic Church in education in that country at that time . |
| 30 | Reports published in Beirut newspapers on Aug. 28 and quoting a senior source in the Shia Amal movement claimed that Arad was being held by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard in Iran , having been captured by Amal in Lebanon in 1986 after bailing out of his aircraft , and then sold by Amal to the Revolutionary Guard for $500,000 . |