Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] be hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The San Salvador Central Market occupation lasted for 12 days , from 11 to 23 December 1979 , and a number of hostages from among the administrative personnel were held in the offices . |
| 2 | Periodic meetings are held with the co-ordinators to inform them of current activities and this important group of staff have been very responsive and supportive in disseminating information to their departments . |
| 3 | Local history Large collections of local history books , pamphlets , manuscripts and the proceedings of interested bodies are held in the Department of Local History of the University of Leicester and the Bodleian Library , Oxford . |
| 4 | Direct elections were held for the presidency , the vice-presidency and the National Assembly in October 1985 [ see pp. 34146-48 ] . |
| 5 | ‘ The first genuinely free elections were held in the Soviet Union , ’ he pointed out . |
| 6 | The children travel by school bus to Howden , and social events are held in the old school . |
| 7 | The following amounts were held in the accounts . |
| 8 | Two separate services were held in the barracks church for five of the victims . |
| 9 | Both public and private versions were held in the mind at one and the same time . |
| 10 | Parliamentary elections were held in the southern ( Greek-Cypriot ) part of the island on May 19 . |
| 11 | Following political reforms in May 1990 which abolished the leading role of the MPRP , multiparty elections were held for the first time in July 1990 , to the Little and Great Hurals , and to local Hurals in the 18 provinces and three municipalities [ see pp. 37609-10 ; p. 37656 ] . |
| 12 | A second round of exploratory talks was held in the Chinese capital on Nov. 17 , when it was agreed that Japanese restrictions on travel to North Korea would be lifted by April 1991 . |
| 13 | STRONG FEELINGS ARE held on the pros and cons of facadism — keeping the outer ( normally just the front ) skin of a building and rebuilding behind . |
| 14 | The calendar below shows the 13 dazzling international exhibitions being held in the 12,000 square metre exhibition hall . |
| 15 | Frantic consultations were held between the few surviving princes , the Chief Priest of the Shrine of Asuryan and the Captain of the Phoenix Guard . |
| 16 | Now the Moroccan authorities are holding onto the body and that 's angered Private Morrison 's Abingdon based family . |
| 17 | Copies of the more important volumes are held in the larger reference libraries , or may be borrowed from the lending division of the British Library . |
| 18 | And if you cast your minds way back to Tuesday you will remember that what I said was that the Americans were trying to create a system of limited government er and yet one which er protected the liberties of individuals not all individuals , not black individuals especially but of individuals , this was the rhetoric of the time and the main device that they invented to do this was something called the separation of powers and they argued that , where political power is concentrated , the potential for abuse is greater so that where executive and legislative powers are held in the same hands , as they are in our system of government , the , there is more prospect of government encroaching upon the rights of individuals . |
| 19 | During September a festival of Southern Italian Wines is held in the ‘ Sassi ’ in Matera . |
| 20 | Legislative elections were held on the same day [ see p. 37766 ] . |
| 21 | A number of short seminars were held during the year and these were well supported . |
| 22 | Informal talks were held with the Social Democrats in June 1989 with the 1990 elections in mind , a recognition in itself that the Green pragmatists were in the ascendant and the Marxist regionalists on the wane . |
| 23 | By this time , therefore , the Forest Eyre was found to be a cumbersome and ineffectual engine , and was allowed to fall into desuetude : only two short eyres were held in the southern forests during the remainder of the century — in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire in 1348 , and in Hampshire and Wiltshire in 1355 . |
| 24 | The entry of foreign forces into the Gulf swung public opinion strongly behind Iraq , and a number of pro-Iraqi demonstrations were held in the country during August , including a march organized by the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) in Algiers on Aug. 15 . |
| 25 | Bilateral meetings were held between the Prime Ministers of Greece and Turkey [ see p. 38786 ] , and of India and Pakistan , while African National Congress president Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk also addressed the gathering . |
| 26 | Institute of Heraldic and Genealogical Studies ( Canterbury ) Many thousands of unpublished manuscripts relating to family histories ; manorial papers thirteenth-twentieth centuries , records of armorial bearings in all Sussex churches , Canterbury Cathedral and elsewhere ; an extensive index of British arms ; transcripts of rolls of arms and heraldic treatises ; heralds ' original note books ; and hundreds of genealogical documents are held at the Institute . |
| 27 | The second winter programme of economic seminars was held during the period October 1989 to March 1990 and consisted of seven meetings supported by 313 members . |
| 28 | A series of regional seminars were held with the consortia identified by the School Management Task Force . |
| 29 | The second rally was an attempt to help Inkatha counter the impact of the mass meetings being held by the ANC following its unbanning and the release of Nelson Mandela in February 1990 [ see pp. 37232-34 ] . |
| 30 | The first meeting between the Foreign Ministers of CARICOM and of Central American states was held at the end of January in San Pedro Sula , Honduras . |