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 | Significantly , when elections were held for the new parliament , the German politicians refused to participate . |
| 4 | In October 1946 elections were held for the Interim Legislature . |
| 5 | The first competitive championships were held in the following year . |
| 6 | ‘ The first genuinely free elections were held in the Soviet Union , ’ he pointed out . |
| 7 | 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 ) ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Their briefings were held in the airy first-floor gallery of the university quadrangle . |
| 12 | The remaining 27 seats were held by the International Movement , representing the Russian minority . |
| 13 | 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 . |