Example sentences of "[noun prp] hold [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul Reynolds held off the challenge of John McPherson to put Drumaness ahead seven minutes from half time and even though a Dunmurry effort was cleared off the line it was Drumaness who squandered the scoring chances in the first half . |
| 2 | With Llanelli held to a draw , Neath took the opportunity to leapfrog into third place with a 27–15 home win over South Wales Police . |
| 3 | There was no inclination to compromise on either side ; the Bishop thereupon declared that the thirty-six livings of the Church of Ireland held by the Presbyterian ministers were vacant because they had not been episcopally ordained . |
| 4 | The Osaka-based businessman has never paid for Daum and Galle glassware , nearly 75% of the total of a sale which Tajan held at the Hotel Okura on 20 November 1990 . |
| 5 | The minutes of the SGM held on the 4th May 1990 were read and it was agreed that the chairman sign them as a true record . |
| 6 | The new Peto Institute in London will benefit from a Special Events Appeal Day held by the Spastics Society in their shops across Britain , including those in Darlington , Barnard Castle , Stockton , Middlesbrough , Whitby and Scarborough , today . |
| 7 | At a meeting in Geneva held under the auspices of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development ( UNCTAD ) , jute producing and consumer countries agreed on Nov. 6 to approve a new five-year International Jute Agreement ( IJA ) . |
| 8 | One of the reasons why Colnaghi 's wanted a presence in Paris and welcomed the opportunity to be at the Hotel Bristol is the attraction which Paris holds to the Japanese ; furthermore , a high occupancy rate at the Hotel Bristol is Japanese and I look forward to being able to meet this clientele . |
| 9 | While ministers in Holland and Belgium are intervening ‘ before breakfast , lunch , tea and dinner ’ in order to rescue something of the Daf structure , their counterpart in the UK holds to the view that the market alone should decide Leyland Daf 's future . |
| 10 | VOR holding on a DME fix towards or away from a VOR is flown as a normal VOR hold . |
| 11 | Phillips J. held on a preliminary issue that the plaintiff had a cause of action . |
| 12 | ’ An absentee also included anyone who was a Palestinian citizen and left his ordinary place of residence in Palestine for a place outside Palestine before 1 September 1948 , or for a place in Palestine held at the time by forces which sought to prevent the establishment of the State of Israel or which fought against it after its establishment . ’ |
| 13 | Mrs Piper gives evidence at the inquest on Hawdon held at the Sol 's Arms . |
| 14 | Upjohn J held on the facts of the case that the transfer of assets and the making of the loan were not associated operations , so that the section was not applicable . |
| 15 | Long ago the Vexin had been divided into two along the line of the River Epte : on the east bank the French Vexin held by the King of France , on the west the Norman Vexin held by the Duke of Normandy . |
| 16 | Daniel held onto the side of the ship , and stared into the dark . |
| 17 | The problem for Kahn and his fellow minority shareholders , representing approximately 25%/ of Velcro 's publicly held share , was the powerful presence of a 65%/ block in Velcro held by a company called Cohere , which had originally committed itself to support the liquidation proposal . |
| 18 | Erratic Burscough held off the challenge of in-form Clitheroe to pick up all three points . |
| 19 | While the Maryland charter gave the Calverts the same executive authority as the Bishops of Durham held on the Scottish border , it required them to make sure that the colonists had approved the laws of their colony before they came into effect ; it may have been realized from earlier experience that an assembly was needed , or there may have been some feeling that a Catholic colony would have special problems . |
| 20 | Rainbow indicates the object that Riva holds in the palm of her hand . |
| 21 | It arose from a chance encounter at one of the regular community meetings of the YCCC held at a time when they were attempting to reach out to any and all sorts of assistance in solving their pollution problem . |
| 22 | It was accompanied by an exhibition of work selected from the various groups of IAWA held at the Sala de Exposiciones de la Comunidad de Madrid . |
| 23 | [ Miles Hadfield , A History of British Gardening , 2nd edn. , 1969 ; R. Sedgwick , The House of Commons 1715–1756 , vol. ii , 1970 ; B. and N. Kitz , Pains Hill Par k , Cobham , 1984 , privately published ; MS papers of Charles Hamilton , Baronscourt archives ; papers relating to the restoration plans at Painshill held by the Painshill Park Trust and land use consultants . ] |
| 24 | An 8.4% stake in Hachette held by a Panamanian registered company linked to Iraqi interests allegedly acting for Saddam Hussein will be reduced to 1.8% as a result of the merger . |
| 25 | Nevertheless separate meetings which President Vassiliou and Denktash held with the UN Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , on Nov. 29 and Dec. 4 , 1989 , resulted in both sides accepting an invitation from Pérez de Cuéllar to meet for an indefinite period in search of an agreement , starting on Feb. 26 , 1990 . |
| 26 | On 29 November 1990 the joint administrators of Paramount Airways Ltd. , Roger Arthur Powdrill and Joseph Beaumont Atkinson , issued an originating application against the respondent , Hambros Bank ( Jersey ) Ltd. , seeking , inter alia , ( 1 ) a declaration that the payment of £346,800 made on or about 31 July 1989 into the account of Anser General Investments S.A. held with the bank , effectively reducing the indebtedness of Anser General Investments S.A. to the bank , constituted a transaction at an undervalue within section 238 of the Insolvency Act 1986 ; ( 2 ) an order that the bank pay to the administrators the sum of £346,800 ; ( 3 ) a declaration that the payment of £1,300,000 made on or about 4 July 1989 into the account of Anser General Investments S.A. with the bank , effectively reducing the indebtedness of Anser General Investments S.A. to the bank , constituted a transaction at an undervalue within section 238 of the Act of 1986 ; and ( 4 ) an order that the bank pay to the administrators the sum of £1,300,000 . |
| 27 | It was an office which Pierre Leclair held at the time . |
| 28 | THE IDEA OF a new organization championing endangered historic buildings grew out of ‘ The Destruction of the Country House ’ , the first major exhibition Roy Strong held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in 1974 following his appointment as Director . |
| 29 | Jazzbeaux held onto the guardrail of the landing , and struggled to control her equilibrium . |
| 30 | Mr Justice Mummery held in the High Court last week that Thomas Reed had copied chartlets from The Macmillan and Silk Cut Nautical Almanac and used them in Reed 's Nautical Almanac European 1993 . |