Example sentences of "[noun sg] hold [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a torch-lit ceremony held on the regimental parade ground two nights later , we were given our képis . |
| 2 | Apart from this , the principal government response had apparently been a highly publicized campaign to remove Sendero graffiti from the walls of two Lima universities , and the distribution of old-fashioned Winchester rifles to peasant militia self-defence groups ( rondas campesinas ) during a militaristic ceremony held in the Andean village of Chaquichocha on June 23 . |
| 3 | ‘ High quality clinical researchers are like gold dust , ’ said Diana Dunstan of the Medical Research Council at a meeting on opportunities in clinical research held at the Royal College of Physicians just before Christmas . |
| 4 | On June 14 the UDF television station screened a videotape of a demonstration held outside the National Assembly building on Dec. 14 , 1989 , in which President Petar Mladenov could be heard saying : " The best thing to do is to bring the tanks in . " |
| 5 | At the end of April , all three withdrew from the election after being placed low down in a kind of primary contest held among the United Left 's Madrid rank-and-file to help decide who should go where on the list of candidates put before the capital 's voters ( a candidate 's position is crucial to his chances of a seat ) . |
| 6 | ( 6 ) The members of a licensing board for a district or licensing division of a district shall be elected at the first meeting of the district council held after the ordinary election of that council in 1977 and , in the case of subsequent elections , of those members : ( a ) except in so far as paragraph ( b ) below otherwise provides , at the first meeting of the council held after each Subsequent ordinary election of the council ; and ( b ) where a determination under subsection ( 3 ) above is made ( whether or not at such meeting of the council as is mentioned in paragraph ( a ) above ) , either : ( i ) at the meeting at which the determination is made ; or ( ii ) at the first meeting of the council held after such meeting as is mentioned in sub-paragraph ( i ) above . |
| 7 | However , I feel that the ‘ caring professions ’ have a lot to answer for in terms of the attitude held by the general public . |
| 8 | Victorine stared at her reflection held in the ornate frame of the mirror over the fireplace while her fingers dusted the china vases that flanked it . |
| 9 | Differences in reward between occupations result from the scarce skill held by the occupational group . |
| 10 | Her eyes drank in the cameo of the small child held by the tall man . |
| 11 | ( So firm is the grip held by the revived quantity theory of money nowadays that few of the monetarists or new classical macroeconomists who followed in Friedman 's footsteps bothered to elucidate the mechanism by which changes in M s ( or in ) affect W and P. They just do . ) |
| 12 | Is the meeting held in the informal comfort of the staff room or is the setting a more formal arrangement ? |
| 13 | A TWO YEAR OLD Rumanian girl was both guest of honour and raison d'etre for a ball and charity evening held at the Black Horse Hotel , Skipton , writes J A F Sheard . |
| 14 | A video image of Dale Kunzler , 10 , from Todmorden , West Yorkshire , is projected upside down on a screen behind him during a video workshop at the ‘ Let's Make A Film ’ Festival held at the National Museum of Photography , Film and Television in Bradford at the weekend . |
| 15 | Particular circumstances exist in which filtration may be useful , and a consensus conference held at the Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh tried to identify them . |
| 16 | Aimed at improving Glasgow 's record of ‘ high flier ’ new start companies , this Programme was launched at a New Firm Formation conference held in the Royal Concert Hall . |
| 17 | In a press conference held after the final meeting on Sept. 10 Hun Sen called for an immediate ceasefire in Cambodia . |
| 18 | In the United States , the Supreme Court held in the great case of The New York Times v Sullivan that no libel action could succeed if the plaintiff was a public figure and the allegation was honestly and diligently made . |
| 19 | Mrs. Maria Fyfe ( Glasgow , Maryhill ) : When this legislation was presented to the Chamber some weeks ago , I inquired of the Secretary of State for Scotland when he last attempted to board a bus whilst trying to fold a pushchair , with an infant in one arm and a toddler held by the other hand . |
| 20 | If the unemployment register held by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland is to be believed , there are fewer than 100 out of work . |
| 21 | This bond held despite the massive immigration into America after the 1840s of peoples who had nothing in common with England , let alone with the Puritan and Protestant traditions . |
| 22 | At a rally held by the Sacred Union on July 30 , attended by 80,000 people , Tshisekedi said that the opposition would call for the resignation of the government , the dissolution of parliament and of the ruling Popular Movement of the Revolution , the dismissal of Mobutu and the installation of a transitional government . |
| 23 | The basic rationality principle of their greater efficiency holds across the occupational system . |
| 24 | Philip Wilson Publishers have published the papers presented at the Ian Woodner Master Drawings Symposium held at the Royal Academy , London , in November 1987 . |
| 25 | Presidents of the 19 Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking American countries , along with the President and Prime Minister of Portugal , and the Prime Minister and King Juan Carlos of Spain , participated in the first Ibero-American summit held in the Mexican city of Guadalajara on July 18-19 . |
| 26 | Yugoslavia had been effectively without a President or a commander of the armed forces ( a role held by the Collective Presidency ) for several days as the term of his predecessor , Borisav Jovic ( a Serb ) , had expired on May 15 . |
| 27 | AT A benefit gig held in the front room ( featuring Radical Posture , led by Alexei Sayle ) Rik berates the non-existent audience thus : ‘ Do n't you read the NME ? |
| 28 | It remained in Australia until 1986 , when it was sent to her niece , Mrs Rita Coxall of Bishop 's Castle , for showing at the first Bishop 's Castle Railway Exhibition held at the High School on 18 April 1986 . |
| 29 | The most comprehensive survey of Nicholson 's art since the exhibition held at the Gulbenkian Foundation , Lisbon , and the Fondacion Juan March , Madrid , in 1987 , it is Lewison 's dress rehearsal for the major retrospective of more than one hundred works which he is organising for the Tate Gallery in the autumn of1994 . |
| 30 | He was a main contributor to the photographic exhibition held in the Great Room of the Society of Arts in London in 1852 , which was the first of its kind . |