Example sentences of "were hold [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Meetings were held with the nursing officer and health visitor line management . |
| 3 | The 58th British Services International Alpine Ski Championships were held for the second year running in Megève . |
| 4 | Significantly , when elections were held for the new parliament , the German politicians refused to participate . |
| 5 | In October 1946 elections were held for the Interim Legislature . |
| 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 | Similar student protests were held on the same day in provincial centres . |
| 10 | Elections were held on the same day for the 216 elective seats in the ( enlarged ) National Assembly , with voters choosing between two candidates in most constituencies ; eight candidates were returned unopposed , among them six serving Cabinet ministers . |
| 11 | Legislative elections were held on the same day [ see p. 37766 ] . |
| 12 | The first competitive championships were held in the following year . |
| 13 | ‘ The first genuinely free elections were held in the Soviet Union , ’ he pointed out . |
| 14 | Peace talks were held in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas on June 3-9 , June 11-15 and June 20-26 between representatives of the government and of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) and the National Liberation Army ( ELN ) ( negotiating jointly as factions of the Simón Bolívar National Guerrilla Co-ordinating Group ( CNGSB ) ) . |
| 15 | Cut-throat Jake and his fellows were held in the powerful grip of the Dragoons , and the incriminating barrels lay on the rocks before them . |
| 16 | There she wept for her sins and her tears washed away the blood ; The form in which this sermon harnesses the pressure of fear as well as the promise of comfort , provides a recognisable cultural context for the form of Margery Kempe 's initial vision of salvation and witnesses to the high esteem in which tears as a sign of spiritual grace were held in the fifteenth century . |
| 17 | It has proved to be of great popular interest and audiences of more than 200 people have attended the series of lectures on ‘ Studying the Scottish Home ’ , which were held in the Royal Museum of Scotland this winter . |
| 18 | Because of the shortage of money , we only sent two backstrokers to Antwerp in 1920 , and I came third in the trials , which were held in the open air pool at Southport , now a children 's playground . |
| 19 | It is believed , although not confirmed , that the missing drawings from the Koenigs Collection which resurfaced last September in Russia were held in the same monastery ( see The Art Newspaper No. 22 , November 1992 , p.8 ) . |
| 20 | Their briefings were held in the airy first-floor gallery of the university quadrangle . |
| 21 | The remaining 27 seats were held by the International Movement , representing the Russian minority . |
| 22 | Lawrence , a child of Water Orton , a suburban lacuna on the outskirts of Birmingham , spent the dreaded '80s as the leader of Felt , a semi-legendary indie pop outfit whose dearth of sales was inversely matched by the affection and wonky respect in which they were held by the choosier pop consumer . |
| 23 | Revolutionary Policy Conferences were held by the Labour Monthly in 1933 , partly no doubt to increase Communist influence in the ILP at the expense of the RPC . |
| 24 | At periods of crisis , lieutenancies were held by the greater English magnates — Edmund of Lancaster in 1295–6 or Henry de Lacy , earl of Lincoln , in 1296–9 and 1303–5 . |