Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] hold [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAB was pleased to record that five successful , well attended DAB conferences had been held during the summer and autumn : international symposium on Supporting reagent chemistry ( York ) , 10th international meeting on NMR spectroscopy ( St Andrews ) , 11th international conference on Chemical education ( York ) , 16th international symposium on Macrocyclic chemistry ( Sheffield ) and the 1991 Autumn meeting ( York ) . |
| 2 | Earlier on March 11 the election had been held to the post of Chairman of the Supreme Council ( i.e. President of Lithuania ) . |
| 3 | By the time the United Kingdom referendum had been held at the beginning of June 1975 , electors in Northern Ireland would have voted seven times in two and a quarter years . |
| 4 | When the post-Forum talks with the dialogue partners began on July 10 , China registered a protest over the Taiwan issue , leading to a statement , issued by the Forum secretariat on July 15 , to the effect that Taiwan had not been admitted as a full dialogue partner and that any talks in which Taiwanese representatives had participated had been held at the discretion of individual Forum members . |
| 5 | The manager had been held by the Portuguese , but when Bill Baldwin took charge of him the local population , including the Chinese , knew that the Australians intended to continue the war preferring to he the hunters rather than the hunted . |
| 6 | The question whether certain moneys had been held by the respondent in the relevant capacity was referred under section 15 of the Act to the minister , who decided on 18 September 1958 that it was . |
| 7 | It had been held by the Trial Division that the trust territory is not a separate legal entity but forms part of the Executive Department of the United States , and that the Trusteeship Agreement did not create a trust enforceable in the courts of equity . |
| 8 | The post had been held by the President since the overthrow of Ahmed Ben Bella in June 1965 . |
| 9 | A second US citizen , Arvey Duane Drown , had been held in the Cordillera region in the north of the country since his abduction by NPA guerrillas in October 1990 . |