Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [adv] hold [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The meetings are normally held in the Council Chamber at Moorgate Place on the first Wednesday of every month ( except September ) .
2 The meetings are now held on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of the month at their new hall , .
3 The Swine parish Council was formed in 1894 and the meetings are now held in the church vestry every four months .
4 Widely divergent views are now held on the value of the formal elements of knowledge about language .
5 Yen CDs are mainly held in the Far East .
6 Village functions are mostly held in the hall and today it accommodates a play group , a Darby and Joan club and other social and recreational activities .
7 The transactions were subsequently held by the House of Lords to have been ultra vires .
8 The legislature is the 40-member National Assembly , of whom 34 are directly elected for a five-year term ( with four specially elected members and two ex officio ) ; 31 of the directly elected seats are currently held by the ruling Botswana Democratic Party and three by the Botswana National Front .
9 Although mineral rights are generally held by the surface landowner , they may have been retained by a previous landowner when the surface freehold was sold , particularly in areas with a long history of mining such as South-west England .
10 Previously shown in Rotterdam the Gaburri albums are now held by the Boymans van Beuningen Museum the exhibition moved on to Boston and Fort Worth .
11 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 .
12 It was hardly surprising that these negative attitudes were also held by the trainees themselves .
13 Meetings were also held during the first half of 1989 between senior PLO officials and officials from France , Spain and the United Kingdom , culminating in Arafat 's talks with President Mitterrand of France in May 1989 , after which the PLO leader said that the PLO 's National Charter was " obsolete " and " null and void " [ see p. 36669 ] .
14 The prayer meetings were then held in the Methodist and Presbyterian churches .
15 Informal briefings and seminars are generally held over the lunch-time period , which is only flexible for scientific and administrative staff .
16 Simultaneously elections were also held for the Czech and Slovak National Councils , which had 200 and 150 seats respectively .
17 Weekly markets were often held in the churchyard where buyers and sellers could meet after church ; it was natural , therefore , that the fair should be established at a time and place where many people were gathered .
18 Control of emergency operations is now held by the police , advised by Scottish Nuclear and with input from various Government departments , local authorities , health authorities , fire and ambulance services , and others .
19 Ralph de Neville in 1334 heard pleas of Sherwood Forest in 1334 , and eyres were also held in the Earl of Lancaster 's forests of Amounderness , Lonsdale and Pickering in Lancashire and Yorkshire .
20 Talks were also held between the two countries ' Foreign Ministers , who discussed the Cambodian question , and between the Ministers of Economic Relations and Trade .
21 The shares were previously held by the company 's founder .
22 The world-famous photo of the Beatles surrounded by a collage of celebrities is currently held by the son of Sixties photographer Michael Cooper .
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