Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] 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 | It is not certain that a majority of the parliament will follow him when a free vote is held on the question of where Germany 's government should be . |
| 4 | A summit of the Andean Pact was held in the Galapagos Islands on Dec. 17-18 , 1989 . |
| 5 | A well attended public meeting was held in the Village Hall on 18th December . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The public enquiry was held at the Institution of Civil Engineers in Westminster and the Board included Sir John Simon ( Chairman ) , and two assessors , Lt Col Moore-Brabazon and Prof Inglis . |
| 8 | Direct elections were held for the presidency , the vice-presidency and the National Assembly in October 1985 [ see pp. 34146-48 ] . |
| 9 | ‘ The first genuinely free elections were held in the Soviet Union , ’ he pointed out . |
| 10 | Though his contact with Mary had been brief , formal and in no public way at all suggestive , disgust at the thought of Miss Skelton and her world suddenly and urgently spilled into his mind and he excused himself rather roughly — so abruptly , in fact , that a careful inquest was held among the company to uncover what possible offence he might have taken . |
| 11 | A public discussion was held between the groups , the designers explaining how the machines would work . |
| 12 | They savagely plucked feathers from it and were so carried away by their onslaught that they even continued attacking when the stuffed bird was held in the experimenter 's hand , close to his face . |
| 13 | The children travel by school bus to Howden , and social events are held in the old school . |
| 14 | A council spokesman said this occurred when the last civic reception was held for the club and caused great concern . |
| 15 | On June 13 in Kosovo a public protest was held in the form of a funeral procession for a symbolic " burial of the current violence " . |
| 16 | In a modern economy , liquid wealth is held in the form of money — bank notes , and , more importantly , bank deposits . |
| 17 | This chapter deals with the situation where the matrimonial home is held in the joint names of the husband and the wife , either as beneficial joint tenants or as tenants in common . |
| 18 | Whether the matrimonial home is held in the joint names of the husband and wife on trust for sale or is in the name of the husband alone , it is not unusual for the court to order that the house be retained but upon certain terms and conditions . |
| 19 | The 1992 AGM and annual lunch was held at the Hilton on Park Lane , London . |
| 20 | An impromptu meeting was held in the foyer , which began with the crowd singing ‘ We shall not be moved ’ . |
| 21 | An official opening was held at the end of May attended by 150 leading Architects , Interior Designers and Specifiers , including Roger McDowall , Computer Design Manager from Elderslie , responsible fot the design of many Swedish orders . |
| 22 | Regular exhibitions of members ' work are organised by the society , the annual exhibition being held at the City Art Gallery . |
| 23 | The following amounts were held in the accounts . |
| 24 | Two separate services were held in the barracks church for five of the victims . |
| 25 | The Bank Pensioners ' and Widows ' Association Western Region Annual Dinner was held in the Banba Hotel , Salthill on 26th March . |
| 26 | An annual Gala is held on the last Saturday in June . |
| 27 | In the current controversy over Croagh Patrick , the deciding interest is held by the Finnish mining multinational Ooutukumpu , a company which also controls the Navan operation of Tara Mines . |
| 28 | Both public and private versions were held in the mind at one and the same time . |
| 29 | It is a tribute to the awe in which Indirect Rule was held in the 1920s that their pretensions were taken seriously : few deliberative bodies in history can have had a higher regard for themselves as repositories of political wisdom than did the Conference of Residents . |
| 30 | These 2 men are the guinea pigs in a unique experiment being held in the Harwell labs in Oxfordshire . |