Example sentences of "hold before the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around three in ten of those who reported paid work within 10 years of their first birth had returned to a different type of job that was likely to have been worse paid than the one they last held before the maternity . |
| 2 | The one-day games were now held before the Test series rather than after , an hors d'oeuvre rather than a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was full , but the first game at Headingley was distinctly uninspiring . |
| 3 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
| 4 | Blumer suggested that the motion picture held before the adolescent ‘ modes of living and schemes of conduct ’ and in a sense organized his needs and suggested lines of conduct , and that this was possible ‘ for too many of the pictures are authentic portrayals ’ . |
| 5 | Studying the results of the general election of 1974 , the latest held before the publication of its Report , the Commission could have come across some disconcerting figures . |
| 6 | All you really know about general , about the general election is that it 's got ta be held before the end of parliament 's statutory life of five years . |
| 7 | He did n't want local elections held before the general election . |
| 8 | The government consistently denied rumours of an early poll , claiming that no parliamentary elections would be held before the presidential contest due in April 1991 , although local elections at sub-district level were expected to go ahead in May 1990 , after the success of similar elections in the Chittagong Hill Tracts on June 25 , 1989 ( see p. 36736 ) . |
| 9 | As in the Congress of People 's Deputies elections in March 1989 [ see p. 36513 ] , practices reminiscent of elections held before the introduction of the democratic reforms under Gorbachev continued to prevail , including artificially high turnouts , a lack of choice between candidates for many seats , and overwhelming communist majorities . |
| 10 | Local elections were planned to be held before the end of 1990 . |
| 11 | Elections to a new 161-member Legislative Yuan and 52-member Control Yuan would be held before the end of 1993 . |
| 12 | On May 7 , at the end of a visit to Washington , Biya had said in a radio interview that presidential elections would be held before the end of the year . |
| 13 | Official radio reported that evening that " early and separate legislative and presidential elections " would be held before the end of the year . |
| 14 | In the event the opposition 's share of the seats increased from 37 to 53 , but Semangat " 46 won only eight seats , compared with the 12 it had held before the election . |
| 15 | Mobutu said that presidential elections , which should have been held before the expiry of his term of office at midnight that day , had not taken place " for reasons beyond our control but inherent in the dynamics of the process of democratization " . |
| 16 | The commission would draft a new constitution to be put to a referendum , and if it won popular support , multiparty presidential and legislative elections would be held before the end of the year . |
| 17 | However , Dumas was believed to have expressed disquiet at the suggestion that Lebanese elections might be held before the proposed withdrawal of Syrian troops in September . |
| 18 | It had earlier been expected that the UN referendum there would be held before the Moroccan elections . |
| 19 | The ANC later described the de Klerk timetable as unacceptable and , rejecting his view that at least nine months of administrative preparation were required for elections , continued to press for elections to be held before the end of 1993 . |
| 20 | A direct election for the newly created post of president of the republic [ see p. 39157 ] was due to be held before the end of March 1993 . |