Example sentences of "[noun] [be] holding a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MOTORCYCLE fans are holding a special night with the stars to celebrate their club 's change of venue next month . |
| 2 | The electricians are holding a postal ballot with the results announced after Christmas . |
| 3 | From 22 to 30 May , the Hellenic Art Galleries Association is holding a contemporary art fair entitled Art Athens 1 ‘ 93 in the Athens Exhibition Centre , a 3000 square-metre space . |
| 4 | To celebrate its jubilee , the club is holding a top quality weekend tournament at the Walsall Polytechnic Campus on April 18–20 . |
| 5 | But a few weeks ago our youth rugby team could n't raise a side because the golf club was holding a junior scratch championship on the same day . |
| 6 | According to witnesses , Gyalpo was holding a Tibetan nationalist flag and marching in front of the demonstration as it progressed towards the Jokhang temple in central Lhasa . |
| 7 | Rosalba was holding a wet cloth on her face , and so Caterina found she was home again ; her mother was taking off her shoes and rubbing her feet . |
| 8 | GULLS WERE HOLDING A REVIVALIST MEETING ; they shrieked their affirmation from the cliff top and woke Elisabeth Danziger early with their evident enthusiasm . |
| 9 | The Arts Council is holding a special meeting in November to discuss the funding crisis ; it is thought that it might decide to cut the number of bodies receiving grant if more government money is not forthcoming . |
| 10 | Back on its own territory the gallery is holding a small exhibition ( 3 February to 25 April ) based around its celebrated Rembrandt ‘ Girl at a Window ’ . |
| 11 | The back of the awesome figure caught in the dying rays of the flare was holding a kicking man high above his head , throwing him as they watched over the side and into the sea . |
| 12 | The boy was holding a magnifying glass over a postcard and writing on it in the tiniest hand . |
| 13 | FORMER workers from one of Darlington 's biggest factories are holding a major reunion next week . |
| 14 | Head and shoulders above everyone else in the Guadalquivir suite of the Seville hotel where Iberia International Airlines were holding a promotional cocktail party . |
| 15 | With this in mind the Chemical Information Group is holding a one-day meeting entitled Public misunderstanding of chemicals . |
| 16 | A year , a month , and a day on from our first meeting , the 18–30 group is holding a welcome event for all those who would like to come and meet us and find out more about the group , and maybe throw your ideas into the pool . |
| 17 | But the A420 Action group is holding a public meeting in Faringdon tonight to ensure its concerns remain top of the traffic agenda . |
| 18 | Buckingham 's MP George Walden is holding a public meeting in his constituency tonight aimed at allowing people to air and share their views on the Gulf crisis . |
| 19 | The other is holding a grey Government-issue ballpoint above the label on the cover , as motionless as a lizard , waiting to strike down into the space next to the word Subject . |
| 20 | Diane Bennet who write our Oh Brother feature each month is holding a three-day course for owners of Brother electronic machines , in Kent from Wednesday , 14th October to Friday , 16th October . |
| 21 | The inspector is holding a pre-inquiry meeting at the club , starting at 10a.m. on Friday the 22nd of January ( today ) , during which the Campaign Consortium will be launched . |
| 22 | Here the whizz-kid from former East Germany , Via Lewandowsky is holding a one-man exhibition from 12 June until 29 August . |
| 23 | In the picture my father was holding a portrait-sized photograph of his first wife , Eric 's mother , and she was the only one who was smiling . |
| 24 | Mary was holding a tiny fawn , and it could n't have been more than a few days old . |
| 25 | On January 9 the Children 's Legal Centre is holding a Young People 's Congress for different interest groups ( Young Guardian will be covering the event ) . |
| 26 | The Barber Institute of Fine Arts at the University of Birmingham is holding a major loan exhibition entitled ‘ Dangerous Liaisons ’ putting Nicolas Poussin 's painting ‘ Tancred and Erminia ’ in context ( 14 October-3 January 1993 ) . |
| 27 | On 21 and 28 March France is holding a general election which , it is widely believed , will oust the present Socialist government . |
| 28 | South Cleveland Hospital is holding a fun day tomorrow in the hospital grounds tomorrow from 11am to 5pm . |
| 29 | Today , the PTA is holding a fair at the school . |
| 30 | Next week at the Sheraton Park Tower in SW1 , the Duchess of Norfolk is holding a two-day charity exhibition of her own paintings , from Pounds 150 . |