Example sentences of "[noun pl] hold [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Numerous English towns were granted royal charters to hold weekly markets in the Middle Ages . |
| 2 | persuading legislators is essential to the policy-making process but , in addition , non-elected officials holding pivotal positions in the bureaucracy must also be convinced of the justification of the president 's proposals . |
| 3 | As was indicated at the beginning of this book , many newcomers hold strong views on the desired social and aesthetic qualities of the English village . |
| 4 | This study aimed to review the content of referral letters from general practitioners to a child psychiatry department and to discover whether general practitioners and psychiatrists hold different views on the information that should be included in a referral letter . |
| 5 | Conventionalism does not deny that many lawyers hold rival views about the best interpretation of the practice they share . |
| 6 | Four religious parties led by elderly rabbis hold 13 seats in the Knesset , controlling the balance between Labour and its friends on the left and the Likud and its friends on the right . |
| 7 | Shevardnadze met the West German Foreign Minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , in the Soviet town of Brest on June 11 , when the two sides held closed talks on the unification issue . |
| 8 | They should also be invited to meet others holding similar posts after the first six months to discuss common concerns . |
| 9 | After the mid-term elections of Nov. 6 , 1990 , the Democrats held 267 seats in the House of Representatives and 56 seats in the Senate [ see pp. 37846-47 ] . |