Example sentences of "[be] hold before the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He can do no better than argue that it involves apprehending things simultaneously rather than in succession though he does not explain how the successful mystic can transcend the limits of the magic number seven , which most psychologists agree is the maximum number of entities that can simultaneously be held before the mind . |
| 2 | All you really know about general , about the general election is that it 's got ta be held before the end of parliament 's statutory life of five years . |
| 3 | The government consistently denied rumours of an early poll , claiming that no parliamentary elections would be held before the presidential contest due in April 1991 , although local elections at sub-district level were expected to go ahead in May 1990 , after the success of similar elections in the Chittagong Hill Tracts on June 25 , 1989 ( see p. 36736 ) . |
| 4 | Local elections were planned to be held before the end of 1990 . |
| 5 | Elections to a new 161-member Legislative Yuan and 52-member Control Yuan would be held before the end of 1993 . |
| 6 | On May 7 , at the end of a visit to Washington , Biya had said in a radio interview that presidential elections would be held before the end of the year . |
| 7 | Official radio reported that evening that " early and separate legislative and presidential elections " would be held before the end of the year . |
| 8 | The commission would draft a new constitution to be put to a referendum , and if it won popular support , multiparty presidential and legislative elections would be held before the end of the year . |
| 9 | However , Dumas was believed to have expressed disquiet at the suggestion that Lebanese elections might be held before the proposed withdrawal of Syrian troops in September . |
| 10 | It had earlier been expected that the UN referendum there would be held before the Moroccan elections . |
| 11 | The ANC later described the de Klerk timetable as unacceptable and , rejecting his view that at least nine months of administrative preparation were required for elections , continued to press for elections to be held before the end of 1993 . |
| 12 | A direct election for the newly created post of president of the republic [ see p. 39157 ] was due to be held before the end of March 1993 . |