Example sentences of "[be] hold [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | An election would be held to decide the final outcome , but quite astonishingly the government decreed that abstentions would count as ‘ yes ’ votes . |
| 2 | Only The Labour Party in Perspective by C. R. Attlee could be held to represent the official views of the Labour Party and Trade Union movement . |
| 3 | President Havel proposed in March 1991 that a referendum should be held to settle the issue of Slovak secession . |
| 4 | A review should be held to examine the extent to which mobility is actually required in the jobs held by staff . |
| 5 | Hall , at that time , also urged that an exhibition of the plans should be held to enable the public 's reaction to be obtained before a Commons Committee considered them . |
| 6 | Regular review sessions will be held to enable the students to identify the learning gained and students will be asked to carefully monitor their own progress . |
| 7 | If one regards the benefit in this light I can not see that the cost incurred in , or in connection with , the provision of the benefit , can properly be held to include the cost incurred , in any event , in providing education to fee paying pupils at the school who were there as a right in return for the fees paid in respect of them . |
| 8 | At a Leverhulme seminar on higher education in 1981 , Gerry Fowler commented that the CNAA 's ‘ Partnership in validation ’ might be held to point the way forward to a national system of awards whose standards were assured by the institutions offering the courses , and periodically scrutinized from outside . |
| 9 | The transformation programme would be discussed in a " constituent phase " of conferences attended by all the PCI factions and representatives of the non-communist left , and finally a congress would be held to launch the new party . |
| 10 | During a three-day visit to the north of Russia beginning on April 28 , Yeltsin was reported to have said in conversation that the Congress , having failed to resolve the land issue , would have to be dissolved ; he reportedly called for a referendum to be held to alter the constitution accordingly . |
| 11 | In October Mr. Johnson , the resident surgeon and secretary of Bedford Infirmary , wrote to the guardians saying that a special meeting of the governors of the infirmary would be held to consider the exclusion of smallpox patients from the Fever Hospital ( which had been established there in 1847 ) . |
| 12 | On Feb. 9 the Transkei authorities had confirmed that a referendum would be held to determine the opinion of its citizens on integration , in view of the recent political changes in South Africa . |
| 13 | Two weeks later , he announced that a referendum would be held to change the method of electing the President of the Republic , by replacing the electoral college with popular election . |