Example sentences of "hold [prep] the [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also I do n't hold with the so-called traders in the centre of Church Street . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In October , the Council hosted METROPIA XVI , a Euro-wide event for senior school pupils held for the first time in the UK |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ] . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | However , deputies ordered elections to be held for the Supreme Soviet in March 1994 , a year early . |
| 10 | ERC discussed the plans for the external relations/Women Chemists joint symposium , A question of food , to be held during the annual congress in Manchester . |
| 11 | An Easter Bonnet parade will be held during the weekly dance in Blackhall Community Hall on Saturday night . |
| 12 | The B ♭ in the bass must be tied over and held throughout the following bar in our transcription if it is to convey faithfully the composer 's intention . |
| 13 | Informal talks were held with the Social Democrats in June 1989 with the 1990 elections in mind , a recognition in itself that the Green pragmatists were in the ascendant and the Marxist regionalists on the wane . |
| 14 | Yet if we take all elections held under the Triennial Act in the twenty year period from 1695 , including by-elections , we find that only nineteen constituencies avoided a contest altogether . |
| 15 | OpenForum ‘ 92 , to be held in the Dutch town in November this year , includes keynote speeches from Open Software Foundation 's Chuck Reilly , and AT&T Bell Laboratories vice-president of research and Nobel prize winner Arno Penzias . |
| 16 | Sabine was among the many girls of Irish descent who entered one of eight regional finals held in Guinness Irish pubs throughout Germany , all culminating in the national final held in the Irish Pub in Berlin 's Europa Centre . |
| 17 | This year 's Sixteenth Biennale Internationale des Antiquaires , to be held in the Grand Palais in Paris from 18 September to 4 October , will be more theatrical than ever thanks to Italian stage designer Pier Luigi Pizzi who has been hired to create a neo-classical Italianate mise en scène for participants to show off their wares . |
| 18 | When the police tried to get them to accept a re-route through an entirely Catholic area , they abandoned the march altogether and confined the event to a rally which was held in the open air in a car park in Foyle Street . |
| 19 | Similarly , the idea that a human rights concert should be held in the very stadium in Santiago where Allende 's officers rounded up thousands of Chileans in 1973 , prior to committing gross violations , stretches the powers of credulity . |
| 20 | The first race was from Paris to Lyons in 1900 and it remained an open road race until 1903 when it was held over the Athy circuit in Ireland . |
| 21 | It has flourished for well over 100 years and is always held on the first weekend in July . |
| 22 | In Guiseley it was on the latter , the Feast of St Oswald in August , but both custom and festival are now held on the first Sunday in July due to the large number of families being away on holiday in August . |
| 23 | New details from the South Down Machine Knitting Club inform us that afternoon meetings will be held on the second Monday in the month between 2 pm and 4 pm . |
| 24 | An annual Gala is held on the last Saturday in June . |
| 25 | Hepworth Feast in south-west Yorkshire is held on the last Monday in June , but this does not comply with the general rule that the date of the village feast is dependent upon the date of its church 's dedication . |
| 26 | Similar student protests were held on the same day in provincial centres . |
| 27 | We will be carrying a report in our next issue of the magazine on our AGM ( 24 October ) and on our forthcoming exhibition to be held at the 181 Gallery in Hammersmith , west London this December/January . |
| 28 | An inquest was held at the Five Bells in January 1905 into an accident at Hailing Manor works when William Chalker was crushed in some machinery while working with John Burgess . |
| 29 | At the Union 's special general meeting , held at the Civic Hall in Port Talbot , delegates voted 276-113 in favour of a strongly-worded WRU motion proposing a complete cut-off of playing links with South Africa . |
| 30 | Speaking to The Art Newspaper Ms Lyles noted that while there have been major surveys of British watercolours in recent years ( such as that held at the British Museum in 1985 ) these have tended to be in-house shows , with the emphasis on highlights from individual collections . |