Example sentences of "[conj] hold [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | were best achieved by organisations that held secure positions inside the enterprise , and unlike their European counterparts the unions in North America insisted on establishing their presence in the plant itself and not merely outside it . |
| 2 | The Commission issues a written Statement of Objections to the parties , to which they can provide a written response , and holds oral hearings for the parties and for interested third parties . |
| 3 | The faculty welcomes enquiries from prospective entrants and holds visiting days during the year ( see Schools Liaison section at the front of this prospectus ) . |
| 4 | Consequently , it is not surprising that in this period the main philosophical schools tended to reject the idea of progress and to hold cyclical views concerning the nature of time . |
| 5 | Delegations from Israel , Syria and Lebanon , and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation , met around a single conference table in the Royal Palace , Madrid , on Oct. 30 , 31 and Nov. 1 , and held bilateral talks in the Palacio de Parcente on Nov. 3 . |
| 6 | While in Moscow Bush also addressed a meeting of the Moscow State Institute for International Relations and held separate talks with the President of the Russian Federation , Boris Yeltsin and the Kazakh President , Nursultan Nazarbayev . |
| 7 | However , many American citizens were of Irish descent and held bitter opinions of the English . |
| 8 | Before the law was introduced in the Greek parliament , there was an extremely long procedure during which the minister of education visited each Greek campus and held lengthy discussions with the universities ' senates on the basis of written replies to a questionnaire distributed by the ministry to each member of the university community in Greece . |
| 9 | Two of the members , trumpeter Bryan Allen and horn player Stephen Roberts graduated from the University Music Department in 1980 , Stephen Roberts having previously studied at the Royal College of Music and held orchestral positions with the BBC . |
| 10 | It undertook to pass a law by Dec. 31 ensuring that Ukrainian conscripts served only on Ukrainian soil ; called for formation of a parliamentary commission to discuss nationalizing Communist Party assets ; asserted that the Ukraine would not enter into a new union treaty before a new constitution creating a sovereign Ukraine was drafted ; and called a referendum in 1991 " on confidence in the Ukrainian President " , the result of which would determine whether to hold fresh elections by the end of the year . |