Example sentences of "[been] held [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Meanwhile a memorial service has been held for the former cabinet minister and Cotswolds MP Nicholas Ridley . |
| 3 | A memorial service has been held for the survivors and relatives of those who lost their lives in an air crash fifty years ago . |
| 4 | A memorial service has been held for the survivors and relatives of those who lost their lives in an air crash fifty years ago . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Major debates have been held since the late 1970s over the future of wetlands in Sussex , Somerset , Yorkshire , and East Anglia . |
| 8 | Military units have frequently carried out arrests and failed promptly to hand over detainees to the police — a number have been held beyond the 72-hour-limit . |
| 9 | Physics has long been held as the most successful of the sciences . |
| 10 | A meeting has already been held with the Government 's new Environment Minister , David Maclean . |
| 11 | Talks have also been held with the Darlington Society of Friends and the Churches Housing Association which has small developments nearby . |
| 12 | Discussions had been held with the Asia Pacific Group , and it was felt suitable to have a Philippines focus . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The fair was known as Barnaby Fair as it was held on the old Feast of St Barnabas on the 22nd June ; more recently it has been held on the Tuesday nearest this date . |
| 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 | reported that a meeting had been held on the previous evening . |
| 17 | Demonstrations have been held at the primate centre run by the University of California-Davis . |
| 18 | The lenders , whose objects were left in embarrassing limbo when the show made museum history and went bankrupt a month early , may have asked themselves whether they would have been prepared to lend had it not been held at the V&A , and , in fact , it was the V&A which was left with the unbudgeted task of getting the exhibits back to the owners . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When the post-Forum talks with the dialogue partners began on July 10 , China registered a protest over the Taiwan issue , leading to a statement , issued by the Forum secretariat on July 15 , to the effect that Taiwan had not been admitted as a full dialogue partner and that any talks in which Taiwanese representatives had participated had been held at the discretion of individual Forum members . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | A special commission which would have been held at the end of the month has had to be brought forward because of Mr McTear 's deteriorating condition . |
| 25 | Silvertown personnel have visited Nippon in Osaka and ‘ Japanese days ’ have been held at the London site to familiarise UK workers with customs , etiquette and basic language . |
| 26 | So far the meetings have been held at the University , but the plan is to move the club 's meetings around the counties of East and West Sussex . |
| 27 | Earlier on March 11 the election had been held to the post of Chairman of the Supreme Council ( i.e. President of Lithuania ) . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | I suggest that the best aid that could be given to East Timor would be an arms embargo on Indonesia until an independent United Nations inquiry has been held into the slaughter of many defenceless men , women and children by the Indonesian army . |
| 30 | 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 . |