Example sentences of "[been] hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party reacted with unnecessary embarrassment and defensiveness to government attacks on general talks it has been holding with the Greens , and its desire , as part of its traditional Ostpolitik , to press on with contacts with the Communist party in East Berlin despite the sudden surge of open opposition to the government by East German citizens . |
| 2 | ‘ Present from Alan behind the bar , ’ said Sarah , drawing out the glass she had been holding behind the frilly apron the waitresses at the Right and Wrong had to wear . |
| 3 | A cheese and wine party had been held for the voluntary emergency wardens , whose services will be required in the event of prolonged power cuts or other major crises . |
| 4 | Meanwhile a memorial service has been held for the former cabinet minister and Cotswolds MP Nicholas Ridley . |
| 5 | A memorial service has been held for the survivors and relatives of those who lost their lives in an air crash fifty years ago . |
| 6 | A memorial service has been held for the survivors and relatives of those who lost their lives in an air crash fifty years ago . |
| 7 | They will be competing at the Haribo meet in Bonn , where the German World Cup fixture has been held for the past four years and where many world and European records have been broken . |
| 8 | It is intended to research , firstly , the changing expectations that have been held of the physical environment and to consider just what both official bodies and NGOs think an appropriate environment should be like . |
| 9 | Major debates have been held since the late 1970s over the future of wetlands in Sussex , Somerset , Yorkshire , and East Anglia . |
| 10 | Military units have frequently carried out arrests and failed promptly to hand over detainees to the police — a number have been held beyond the 72-hour-limit . |
| 11 | Physics has long been held as the most successful of the sciences . |
| 12 | A meeting has already been held with the Government 's new Environment Minister , David Maclean . |
| 13 | Talks have also been held with the Darlington Society of Friends and the Churches Housing Association which has small developments nearby . |
| 14 | Discussions had been held with the Asia Pacific Group , and it was felt suitable to have a Philippines focus . |
| 15 | But we must not be confused by this : a wide variety of views had been held on the relations of popes and emperors , bishops and kings , in the tenth century ; a wide variety was still held in the twelfth . |
| 16 | The fair was known as Barnaby Fair as it was held on the old Feast of St Barnabas on the 22nd June ; more recently it has been held on the Tuesday nearest this date . |
| 17 | In recent years seminars have been held on the Inner City , Local Economic Development , Urban and Regional Economics and on Emerging Information Society , Northern Ireland and the Local Labour Market . |
| 18 | reported that a meeting had been held on the previous evening . |
| 19 | Demonstrations have been held at the primate centre run by the University of California-Davis . |
| 20 | The lenders , whose objects were left in embarrassing limbo when the show made museum history and went bankrupt a month early , may have asked themselves whether they would have been prepared to lend had it not been held at the V&A , and , in fact , it was the V&A which was left with the unbudgeted task of getting the exhibits back to the owners . |
| 21 | TALKS HAVE BEEN held at the high profile Letterewe estate in Wester Ross about a possible overall access pattern for the Letterewe and neighbouring estates . |
| 22 | Some 15 months earlier , however , a meeting had been held at the same spot , and after that meeting , a disturbance took place at the training centre ( although the report of the case gives no indication of the scale or the cause of the previous disturbance ) . |
| 23 | By the time the United Kingdom referendum had been held at the beginning of June 1975 , electors in Northern Ireland would have voted seven times in two and a quarter years . |
| 24 | When the post-Forum talks with the dialogue partners began on July 10 , China registered a protest over the Taiwan issue , leading to a statement , issued by the Forum secretariat on July 15 , to the effect that Taiwan had not been admitted as a full dialogue partner and that any talks in which Taiwanese representatives had participated had been held at the discretion of individual Forum members . |
| 25 | Because there are no unions here staff have not been involved in the strike ballot which has been held at the other four British plants . |
| 26 | A special commission which would have been held at the end of the month has had to be brought forward because of Mr McTear 's deteriorating condition . |
| 27 | Silvertown personnel have visited Nippon in Osaka and ‘ Japanese days ’ have been held at the London site to familiarise UK workers with customs , etiquette and basic language . |
| 28 | So far the meetings have been held at the University , but the plan is to move the club 's meetings around the counties of East and West Sussex . |
| 29 | Earlier on March 11 the election had been held to the post of Chairman of the Supreme Council ( i.e. President of Lithuania ) . |
| 30 | DAB was pleased to record that five successful , well attended DAB conferences had been held during the summer and autumn : international symposium on Supporting reagent chemistry ( York ) , 10th international meeting on NMR spectroscopy ( St Andrews ) , 11th international conference on Chemical education ( York ) , 16th international symposium on Macrocyclic chemistry ( Sheffield ) and the 1991 Autumn meeting ( York ) . |