Example sentences of "[verb] [been] hold [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To mark its fiftieth birthday the Oxford-based charity Oxfam has been holding a fashion show with a difference . |
| 2 | The run has been held every year since 1930 , apart from the war years and is the main event in the veteran calendar . |
| 3 | Since the event began in 1973 it has been held every fourth year and split into 5 legs of different size and difficulty . |
| 4 | Where there is a formal announcement of a royal proclamation to dissolve parliament before the special meeting referred to in paragraph ( b ) above has been held the provisions of this section ( other than this paragraph ) shall be suspended and the said Member of Parliament shall be reselected as the prospective parliamentary candidate unless he or she intimated his or her intention to retire in which case the provisions of section ( 4 ) of this clause shall apply . |
| 5 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 6 | She appeared to have been holding a makeshift icepack to the side of her head and a couple of the cubes had skidded out of reach and begun to melt , almost as if she 'd been in too much of a hurry to stretch over for them . |
| 7 | I was sure she had been holding a small phial with the letters ‘ SUL ’ written on it . |
| 8 | The youths had been holding a vigil for student Quaddus Ali , who remains ‘ critical but stable ’ after reportedly being attacked by a gang of white youths in Stepney , east London , on Wednesday . |
| 9 | A young French assistant , who had been holding the white horse on which Duclos ranged the plantation each day , stepped forward at a signal from him and steadied the animal while he mounted . |
| 10 | It had been held every year since I was five , and I had only missed it once , the year I was in Nigeria . |
| 11 | The CNAA conference on School Experience and the Assessment of Teaching had been held the previous month . |
| 12 | Legal moves have begun to evict thousands of travellers who 've been holding an illegal festival at a beauty spot for the past five days . |
| 13 | IN MEMORY of three colleagues who died last year , Education Department staff at Torpichen Street have been holding a number of events to raise money for charity . |
| 14 | Crews from four fire stations threatened with closure have been holding a demonstration against the plans . |
| 15 | Scientists have been holding a one-day strike in an attempt to get the same pay as their European colleagues . |