Example sentences of "[noun] hold [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May 14 Baker holds talks with King Hussein in Jordan and then travels overland to East Jerusalem where he meets with a three-member Palestinian delegation headed by Husseini . |
| 2 | May 15-16 Baker holds talks with Shamir and other Israeli leaders in Jerusalem . |
| 3 | Dec. 15 Rogachev holds talks in Bangkok with Thai Foreign Minister Siddhi Savetsila during which Soviet Union proposes moratorium on all foreign military assistance |
| 4 | The Centre for Educational Sociology at Edinburgh University holds data from the Scottish school leavers surveys , which have been conducted since 1962 , and biennially since 1977 . |
| 5 | Canada 's Ministry of Posts & Telecommunications has signed an agreement with China 's Hubei San Gao to update cellular telephone systems in Hubei province : the Canadian holds 51% of the venture , with Hubei San Gao the remaining 49% . |
| 6 | Slowly , tentatively , they part , your tongues meet , and your awareness of what the future holds passes from speculation to certainty . |
| 7 | While Stavrogin never gets to see Tikhon , the immediate future holds murder in store for Shatov . |
| 8 | But , even though Sir Hugo Mallinger holds parties for his tenants in the gallery he has built above his cloisters , the social dimension that Disraeli liked to imagine is not a conspicuous aspect of such houses as it is of St Genevieve . |
| 9 | He said that Japan would contribute 50,000,000 yen ( equivalent to approximately US$350,000 ) to assist with the refugee voluntary repatriation programme and would help to expand the refugee holding centre in the Philippines . |
| 10 | We can further extend the scheme into the non-numeric parts of the computer , by providing tag field values for all data formats , for instructions , and for descriptors ; that is , computer words holding information about areas of the store ( we have already met these in 2.5 ) . |
| 11 | Our historical cost loss of £xxx million was recorded after stock holding losses of £xxx million . |
| 12 | This compared with an historical cost profit of £415 million in 1991 , when much heavier stock holding losses of £629 million were recorded because of a substantial fall in oil prices with the end of the Gulf war . |
| 13 | Tickets for the original Cambridge and Birmingham gigs remain valid , while fans holding tickets for the London shows on the first , second or third nights must attend the equivalent evenings in January . |
| 14 | A soldier of mixed Visigothic and Suevic extraction , he came to power under Avitus , was responsible for his fall , and was effectively involved in the appointment of all the western emperors to hold office between 457 and his own death in 472 . |
| 15 | ( An attempt to hold elections in November 1987 was called off when voters were massacred by Duvalierist gangs ; the subsequent poll , held in January 1988 , was dominated by Duvalierist candidates and involved considerable fraud and intimidation and only a fraction of the electorate participated — see p. 35697-98 ; 25698-99 . ) |
| 16 | An attempt to hold elections in 1987 had been abandoned after polling stations were attacked by members of the Tontons Macoutes , the remnants of the Duvaliers ' much feared and hated private army . |
| 17 | Mann , though in possession of an official permit to hold meetings on trade unionism in Hamburg , was nevertheless put on a boat back to England ; on returning six weeks later , he was again expelled and various activists served short periods in prison . |
| 18 | On the issue of United Kingdom participation in UNESCO ( the United States , United Kingdom and Singapore having withdrawn from the organization in 1984-85 — see pp. 33499-501 ) Mayor held talks on Feb. 28 with the UK Under-Secretary of State at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , Timothy Sainsbury , and on March 15 the House of Commons foreign affairs committee issued its first report on reforms within UNESCO , indicating that if Mayor succeeded in reforming the organization 's administration , the UK should rejoin . |
| 19 | On a visit to Damascus on Feb. 12-14 French Foreign Minister Roland Dumas held meetings with President Hafez al-Assad , Vice-President Abdel Halim Khaddam and Foreign Minister Farooq ash-Shar " , in which the parties discussed Lebanon , the Middle East peace process , and bilateral economic and cultural relations . |
| 20 | Nineteenth-century forms and styles held sway until the 1920s when they were replaced by their horrendous antithesis — Functionalism . |
| 21 | In an effort to bring peace to the island , PNG held talks with the rebels last August on board a New Zealand warship moored off Bougainville . |
| 22 | After all the title of the service in the book of common order is confirmation held admission to the lord 's supper . |
| 23 | During his visit Anand held talks with , amongst others , Vo Van Kiet and Do Muoi , general secretary of the ruling Communist Party of Vietnam ( CPV ) . |
| 24 | On Feb. 16 Vellayati held talks in Moscow with Bessmertnykh , and Aziz flew to Moscow on Feb. 17 , after first crossing by road into Iran ( coalition commanders having announced that they could not guarantee his safety in Iraqi airspace ) . |
| 25 | Another problem with using schema theory in this context is the assumption that subjects held schemata for individual junctions . |
| 26 | In Israel , Jonah held talks with Prime Minister Rabin , who categorically ruled out a reversal of the decision to deport the Palestinians . |
| 27 | Several years ago , the Occupational Safety and Health Administration held hearings on the problem of identifying and classifying potential carcinogens . |
| 28 | Livermore was understandably keener to discuss the moments in which football held sway over the niggling . |
| 29 | She pressed the button , heard no sound , and waited with her tray held level at shoulder height . |
| 30 | The clearest and harshest expression of this twofold approach ( and one which certainly brings into the open its ultimate presuppositions ) was perhaps the application of the doctrine of predestination in the Federal or Covenant Theology of the seventeenth century as expressed in such classic statements as the Westminster Confession , which for centuries held sway on both sides of the Atlantic as the most widely authoritative summary in English of Reformed orthodoxy . |