Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Local councils of the pontificate , such as that held at Dioclea in 1199 , to reform the Dalmatian and Serbian Church repeated the condemnation , demanding the celibacy of priests . |
| 3 | Cowan scored the equaliser a minute before half time to bring his total for the season to 44 , beating the club record of 43 held by Martin Malone since 1973–74 . |
| 4 | Scouts from Notts , Lincs , Derbys and Leics have smashed the world record for a canoe raft of 376 held by the People 's Youth Movement of Singapore last year . |
| 5 | Among the hundreds of those held without charge or trial in Syria are the following who have appeared in the Letter Writing Campaign : Hakem Sultan al-Faiz , a 61-year-old Jordanian national and former member of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party , who has been held for almost 20 years ; Ahmad ‘ Abd al-Rau'uf Roummou , a 55-year-old teacher , arrested in 1975 ; Muhammad Nabil Salem , an engineer , arrested in the wake of a one-day national strike in 1980 and Mahmud Jalbut , a Palestinian arrested in 1980 . |
| 6 | Some of those held on remand will be found not guilty and a significant proportion do not receive custodial sentences when their case is finally heard — points not lost on the government , which is investing in additional bail hostels , special bail information schemes run by the probation service and , more controversially , pilot schemes malting use of electronic ‘ tagging ’ equipment ; these are all ways , it is hoped , to reduce what many see as an unnecessary and wasteful use of prison resources . |
| 7 | All senior ministers retained their posts ( in some cases renamed ) , although the Justice portfolio , hitherto one of those held by Guido De Marco , was given to Joe Fenech , who had been a parliamentary secretary in the outgoing government . |
| 8 | Border is just 337 runs behind the current record of 10,122 held by Kapil 's former Indian captain and mentor Sunil Gavaskar . |
| 9 | The pro-Iranian Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine released United States hostage Jesse Turner to Syrian security officers in Beirut on Oct. 21 , after the freeing of one Arab prisoner from Israel and of 14 held by the Israeli-backed South Lebanese Army ( SLA ) from the al-Khiam prison in the southern Lebanon " security zone " . |
| 10 | The Khalistan Liberation Front ( KLF ) had been demanding the release of three militants held in India , and of two held in Romania , since the assassination attempt on Aug. 20 against the Indian ambassador in Bucharest , a former chief of police in Punjab , Julius Ribeiro . |
| 11 | ‘ Counter cultures ’ are groups of people within society whose values and norms are different from and go against those held in the wider society . |
| 12 | The early , nineteenth-century experiments in artificial lighting , including that held in Sheffield in the year of Chapman 's birth , had been forgotten , and it was left to the Europeans to develop the idea of floodlit football . |
| 13 | Sometimes they presuppose background knowledge which teachers do not possess ; very often they demand approaches and attitudes quite at variance with those held by an average teacher . |
| 14 | Although the Janata Dal held only 24 of the 225 seats in the Karnataka State Assembly ( compared with 178 held by Congress ( I ) ) , the Singh government imposed President 's rule on the state and suspended its Assembly . |
| 15 | Teaching and lecturing staff rarely have the time needed to identify , obtain , understand and analyse complex datasets such as those held on the Data Archive . |
| 16 | Unlike the many country-specific shows such as those held in France , Germany , Italy and the UK , Open Forum really is after a Europe-wide audience , and hopes the quality of the conference , from both a business and a technical point of view , will attract a wide geographical spread of attendees . |
| 17 | One would not suggest that they did not hold the Muftilik , but one can suggest that they held a very different kind of Muftilik from that held by Fahreddin Acemi . |
| 18 | At a hearing before an enlarged Appellate Committee of the House of Lords , seven Lords of Appeal in Ordinary held in Pepper ( Inspector of Taxes ) v. Hart , Lord Mackay of Clashfern LC dissenting , that , in limited circumstances , reference may be made to parliamentary material as an aid to statutory construction . |
| 19 | At the Communist world conference in 1957 held in post-Sputnik euphoria , Mao Tse-tung declared that the East wind was prevailing over the West wind and that nuclear war would mean the end of capitalism but not of communism : if 300 million Chinese were killed , there would still be 300 million left alive . |
| 20 | The Institute offered examinations in 32 subjects in 1992 held in 994 centres in the UK and 525 overseas . |
| 21 | A variety of opinions was expressed in Committee , and at the end of our debates some of the opinions were slightly different from those held at the start of our Committee proceedings . |
| 22 | estimated income and expenditure records since 1986 held on computer disk and paper file for reference . |
| 23 | Actual Income and Expenditure records since 1986 held on computer disk and paper file . |
| 24 | It is suggested that this was intended to represent a Roman cavalry standard-bearer , as the insignia is not unlike an imago , similar to that held by Flavinus of the Ala Petriana , found near Corbridge and now in Hexham Abbey . |
| 25 | The person who uses the phrase ‘ I 'm not prejudiced but … ’ implies some image of what the ‘ prejudiced ’ person is like , and this image is similar to that held by Voltaire , in that the prejudiced person is presumed to hold views , which have not been formed rationally . |
| 26 | This is charged to the opposite potential to that held by the droplet and attracts the ink into the paper . |
| 27 | Except that trusts of land must be created by writing , a trust may be created by any sufficient expression of intention to create it , whether the legal ownership is transferred to another to hold as trustee or remains with the creator of the trust , who in that case will himself be the trustee . |
| 28 | Suppose now that a tenant in fee simple granted the land to another to hold for life or in tall . |
| 29 | It is said that Scotland should content herself with arrangements similar to those holding for Bavaria or Catalonia or Flanders . |
| 30 | The offeror will need to show that he has been unable to trace the shareholders after reasonable enquiry , that the shares for which acceptances have been received when added to those held by untraceable shareholders amount to not less than the 90 per cent threshold , and that the consideration offered is fair and reasonable . |