Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [been] hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | reported that a meeting had been held on the previous evening . |
| 3 | The post had been held by the President since the overthrow of Ahmed Ben Bella in June 1965 . |
| 4 | Lothian and Borders Police later said that an inquiry had been held into the actions of officers that night and a report sent to the procurator-fiscal . |
| 5 | The manager had been held by the Portuguese , but when Bill Baldwin took charge of him the local population , including the Chinese , knew that the Australians intended to continue the war preferring to he the hunters rather than the hunted . |
| 6 | By the time the United Kingdom referendum had been held at the beginning of June 1975 , electors in Northern Ireland would have voted seven times in two and a quarter years . |
| 7 | The question whether certain moneys had been held by the respondent in the relevant capacity was referred under section 15 of the Act to the minister , who decided on 18 September 1958 that it was . |
| 8 | Discussions had been held with the Asia Pacific Group , and it was felt suitable to have a Philippines focus . |
| 9 | Earlier on March 11 the election had been held to the post of Chairman of the Supreme Council ( i.e. President of Lithuania ) . |
| 10 | But we must not be confused by this : a wide variety of views had been held on the relations of popes and emperors , bishops and kings , in the tenth century ; a wide variety was still held in the twelfth . |
| 11 | DAB was pleased to record that five successful , well attended DAB conferences had been held during the summer and autumn : international symposium on Supporting reagent chemistry ( York ) , 10th international meeting on NMR spectroscopy ( St Andrews ) , 11th international conference on Chemical education ( York ) , 16th international symposium on Macrocyclic chemistry ( Sheffield ) and the 1991 Autumn meeting ( York ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |