Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As recorded in the minutes of the meeting of the Heads of Department held on the 11th March 1981 , reaction to this document was anxious and ambivalent , with several threads of concern emerging . |
| 2 | The 500,000 acres of land held by the water companies would be prey to ‘ massive exploitation . ’ |
| 3 | Most colleges of education libraries , for example , will have lists of software held in the college and organizations such as SMDP , ( the Scottish Microelectronics Development Project ) , produce annotated catalogues of software available to schools at low cost . |
| 4 | The Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi , sent his congratulations to Déby on Dec. 5 , and welcomed a decision to repatriate 2,000 Libyan prisoners of war held since the end of the 1986-87 war . |
| 5 | The difference is clearly seen by comparing the ideologies of mobility held by the members of the two sorts of system . |
| 6 | The UN Charter would have to be amended to provide for a special security council which would not , presumably , include the rights of veto held by the five permanent members of the existing security council . |
| 7 | For example , in order for Ukraine to get hold of Scythian gold , the republic not only has to declare its citizens the direct descendents of the Scythians , but also to prove that the remarkable Scythian objects at present held in the Hermitage were made by natives and not by itinerant ancient Greek craftsmen . |
| 8 | From the records of property holding in the city of London between c 1200 and 1666 , it is possible to trace a remarkable sequence of changes in the fabric of the city , the density of settlement , the property market , and the social and economic structure . |