Example sentences of "held [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope that I will have an opportunity to meet many students in the forthcoming series of meetings being held through the regional actuarial societies . |
| 2 | A relatively low balance of cash can be held as the day-to-day operations of a bank 's customers — cash deposits and withdrawals — create an offsetting phenomenon . |
| 3 | Stein 's book may have influenced the initial formulation of Marx 's conception of the proletariat in capitalist society ( Avineri , 1972 , pp. 53–5 ) , but whether that is so or not it did undoubtedly express in a very clear and forceful way ideas which were widely held about the dominant political issues in nineteenth-century European societies ; to such an extent that the social movement came to be largely identified , especially in Germany , with the labour movement . |
| 4 | Behind the scrum — where Ian Hunter will have to prove he is fully recovered after a spate of leg injuries — Rob Andrew , as suspected , has held off the late challenge of Ellwood , though coach Ian McGeechan will certainly want him to do more to compromise the enemy back row . |
| 5 | It was by just such dazzling manoeuvres that the Emperor and held off the Russian , Prussian and Austrian armies in the spring of 1814 . |
| 6 | The decline of the West Indian sugar economy , and the near-complete ability of the US cotton economy to supply its own black labour through the reproduction of its gender-balanced slave population , lessened the vested interest which might otherwise have held off the evangelical/humanitarian reformers rather longer . |
| 7 | The winner was Barry Fullerton of Ballymena Scott Rooftiles , who with Harold Brennan ( CB Hire/Kings Moss CC ) just held off the big bunch by 28 two seconds . |
| 8 | Under the affordable-housing programme , houses valued at under $67,500 and apartment complexes are held off the open market for 90 days after a thrift is seized by the government . |
| 9 | Mountain Crash , stable-companion of Carl 's Choice , held off the Daily Telegraph Trophy holder , Fort Hall , with reasonable comfort in the Ladies ' and Richard Hunt gained more admirers when following up his Higham win by catching Manor Mieo on the line in the Intermediate . |
| 10 | At the end of August talks were held between the Chief Minister P. K. Mahanta , the All Bodo Students Union ( ABSU ) and the central government observer and then Minister of State for Welfare , Rajendra Kumari Bajpai . |
| 11 | In February 1990 a meeting was held between the then Prime Minister Miklós Németh , the then acting President Matyás Szürös and opposition party representatives , to discuss the period up to the March-April multiparty parliamentary elections , [ for which see pp. 37325 ; 37380 ] . |
| 12 | On Feb. 21 the first meeting was held between the new government and the trade unions , but Podkrepa refused to attend the meeting with Dimitrov and other Cabinet members because the CITUB 's chair , Krustyu Petkov , was also invited . |
| 13 | Bilateral meetings were held between the Prime Ministers of Greece and Turkey [ see p. 38786 ] , and of India and Pakistan , while African National Congress president Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk also addressed the gathering . |
| 14 | As he was held between the conflicting pressures of wind and water , so he was caught between the desire to reach Mariana and offer her comfort and the need to husband his remaining strength — but he knew that the husbanding of his strength was paramount if they were to survive . |
| 15 | A summit meeting was held between the Croatian and Slovenian Presidents , Franjo Tudjman and Milan Kucan , at Brdo north of Ljubljana , the Slovenian capital , on Oct. 13 . |
| 16 | Talks were also held between the two countries ' Foreign Ministers , who discussed the Cambodian question , and between the Ministers of Economic Relations and Trade . |
| 17 | Frantic consultations were held between the few surviving princes , the Chief Priest of the Shrine of Asuryan and the Captain of the Phoenix Guard . |
| 18 | Significantly , when elections were held for the new parliament , the German politicians refused to participate . |
| 19 | In 1968 , President Kaunda addressed the International press Institute 's annual assembly , then being held for the first time in an independent , black-ruled African nation : African countries , he said , had ‘ gone out of their way ’ to encourage the foreign press to report African affairs . |
| 20 | As secretary of that organisation , I have to declare more than a personal interest but the presentation , during the Association 's annual dinner , held for the first time in the Debenture Holders Lounge at The All England Club , was clearly a most popular choice . |
| 21 | The previous November , the government had assented to the idea of an annual White Paper on expenditure and a debate , the paper being published and the debate being held for the first time in the winter of 1969–70 . |
| 22 | TRADE : The gradual improvement in trade has held for the first four months of 1993 according to the Builders Merchants Federation . |
| 23 | In October , the Council hosted METROPIA XVI , a Euro-wide event for senior school pupils held for the first time in the UK |
| 24 | A general election under proportional representation was held for the first time on Feb. 15 , 1989 , the UNP winning a comfortable 25-seat majority [ see pp. 36467-68 ] . |
| 25 | Popular elections for the executive President , who serves for a maximum of two consecutive five-year terms , were held for the first time in December 1990 . |
| 26 | Following political reforms in May 1990 which abolished the leading role of the MPRP , multiparty elections were held for the first time in July 1990 , to the Little and Great Hurals , and to local Hurals in the 18 provinces and three municipalities [ see pp. 37609-10 ; p. 37656 ] . |
| 27 | Continuing a process of democratization which began with the election of all 950 members for the Tirupati plenum by the party 's rank and file , elections were held for the first time in more than 20 years for party posts including the 10 elective posts in the party 's most senior decision-making body , the Congress working committee ( CWC ) . |
| 28 | The event was held for the first time at the new Purdysburn Hospital Equestrian Centre outside Belfast . |
| 29 | 1839 Henley Regatta was held for the first time . |
| 30 | Festival organisers also hope for high standard of competition in a new music competition to be held for the first time this year . |