Example sentences of "[verb] [be] hold [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because there are no unions here staff have not been involved in the strike ballot which has been held at the other four British plants . |
| 2 | Meanwhile a memorial service has been held for the former cabinet minister and Cotswolds MP Nicholas Ridley . |
| 3 | They will be competing at the Haribo meet in Bonn , where the German World Cup fixture has been held for the past four years and where many world and European records have been broken . |
| 4 | It has been held by the European Court of Human Rights that freedom of expression ( Article 10 ) constitutes one of the essential foundations of democratic society , one of the basic conditions for its progress and for the development of every man ( judgment of the Court of 7 December 1976 , Handyside Case , Series A , No.24 ) . |
| 5 | It has been held by the High Court that an agreement to settle an appeal made under s 54 , TMA 1970 was subject to the ordinary laws of contract and that it was therefore subject to rectification where , because of a mistake , the agreement was not in accordance with the parties ' intentions ( p 100 ) . |
| 6 | Their report clearly indicated that this coroner had been wrong in his judgement of how he should conduct his inquest which , in the opinion of the committee , should have been held after the public inquiry into the cause of the accident . |
| 7 | ‘ Present from Alan behind the bar , ’ said Sarah , drawing out the glass she had been holding behind the frilly apron the waitresses at the Right and Wrong had to wear . |
| 8 | reported that a meeting had been held on the previous evening . |
| 9 | Some 15 months earlier , however , a meeting had been held at the same spot , and after that meeting , a disturbance took place at the training centre ( although the report of the case gives no indication of the scale or the cause of the previous disturbance ) . |
| 10 | A cheese and wine party had been held for the voluntary emergency wardens , whose services will be required in the event of prolonged power cuts or other major crises . |
| 11 | Colonel Lin Foh had no idea of the contempt with which he , and his fallen Government , had been held by the British Government itself . |
| 12 | The Social Secretary outlined the events which had been held in the past year , all of them well attended . |
| 13 | They had been held in the Military Prison outside Kuwait City , some for over a month , reportedly in deplorable conditions . |
| 14 | It is intended to research , firstly , the changing expectations that have been held of the physical environment and to consider just what both official bodies and NGOs think an appropriate environment should be like . |
| 15 | In recent years seminars have been held on the Inner City , Local Economic Development , Urban and Regional Economics and on Emerging Information Society , Northern Ireland and the Local Labour Market . |
| 16 | TALKS HAVE BEEN held at the high profile Letterewe estate in Wester Ross about a possible overall access pattern for the Letterewe and neighbouring estates . |
| 17 | Major debates have been held since the late 1970s over the future of wetlands in Sussex , Somerset , Yorkshire , and East Anglia . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | More intimate and relaxed than synagogue services — whoever felt inclined could take it on himself to lead the responses — these minyanim were held in the front rooms of the tiny houses and anyone passing along the street at the time would be assailed by a chorus of incantations like the sound of bees swarming in a hive . |