Example sentences of "[pron] [be] hold in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | These reserves , which are held in the Exchange Equalisation Fund , may be used to intervene in the foreign exchange market to influence the exchange rate between sterling and other currencies . |
| 2 | From the age of eight onwards he was allowed to dine with his parents at the Bonaparte family dinners which took place every Monday at the Tuileries , and occasionally at more formal dinners which were held in the Galerie de Diane . |
| 3 | Less crowded and more sought after than these official Court balls were the Empress 's ‘ Mondays ’ , known as the petits bals du lundi , which were held in the Salon Bleu of her own apartments . |
| 4 | It has proved to be of great popular interest and audiences of more than 200 people have attended the series of lectures on ‘ Studying the Scottish Home ’ , which were held in the Royal Museum of Scotland this winter . |
| 5 | Because of the shortage of money , we only sent two backstrokers to Antwerp in 1920 , and I came third in the trials , which were held in the open air pool at Southport , now a children 's playground . |
| 6 | ‘ Every idea which is held in the mind takes its origin from the senses … [ it ] either comes through the senses , or is formed from those which come through the senses . ’ |
| 7 | While there has been much research on the short term memory system of the type used to , eg , remember telephone numbers , relatively little is known about the nature of temporary memory for information which is held in the focus of attention during reading and conversation ( ‘ foregrounded' information ) . |
| 8 | During a debate on the dispute at the Labour Party Conference in Brighton yesterday , Steve Gazzard , an ambulance worker , said that by allowing arbitration , ministers would then ‘ repay their debt ’ to ambulancemen called in after the bombing during the Tory party conference which was held in the town in 1984 . |
| 9 | The Duke of Edinburgh was represented by the Countess Mountbatten of Burma at the Memorial Service for Marjorie , Countess of Brecknock , which was held in the Guards Chapel , today . |
| 10 | Princess Alice , Duchess of Gloucester , was represented by Major Nicholas Barne at the Memorial Service for Marjorie , Countess of Brecknock , which was held in the Guards Chapel today . |
| 11 | The Duke and Duchess of Kent were represented by Captain the Honourable Christopher Knollys at the Memorial Service for Marjorie , Countess of Brecknock which was held in the Guards Chapel , today . |
| 12 | He had invited selected members of the family as witnesses to the ceremony , which was held in the Hall of Marshals , but even careful selection did not prevent exhibitions of ill-bred behaviour . |
| 13 | When the police tried to get them to accept a re-route through an entirely Catholic area , they abandoned the march altogether and confined the event to a rally which was held in the open air in a car park in Foyle Street . |
| 14 | The publication of the paper in Nature was thus accompanied by a press conference at Harwell , which was held in the hall where Kurchatov had spoken nearly two years earlier . |
| 15 | Her sister Jane had asked her to be chief bridesmaid at her wedding to Robert Fellowes , the son-of the Queen 's land agent at Sandringham and now her private secretary , which was held in the Guards Chapel in April 1978 . |
| 16 | On Saturday the 17th of August we attended the Great British Beer Festival which was held in the Docklands Arena , London . |
| 17 | The evening was given over to a " conversation " , which was held in the Church Institute and attracted an audience of one hundred and fifty people . |
| 18 | Mr. Frank Shaw , left , receiving IBOA cheque £900 on behalf of Pensioners ' and Widows ' Association , Western Region from Mr. Pat O'C Hegarty at the Annual Dinner which was held in the Banba Hotel , Salthill on 26th March . |
| 19 | Newtownabbey reader Alan Beattie writes to ask , through this column , if anyone else remembers a body building exhibition which was held in the then Husband Memorial Hall in Frederick Street back in 1964 or 65 . |
| 20 | President Rakhmon Nabiyev , however , did not attend the signing ceremony , which was held in the Badakhshan Autonomous Republic in Tajikistan ( formerly the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous oblast or region ) . |
| 21 | The pair did n't even realise they were related when they met at a special course about the assassination at the University of Liverpool , which was held in the wake of the Oliver Stone film JFK . |
| 22 | And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now . |
| 23 | The men who sat or lay near to him on the floor had watched with a curiosity that a man who was held in the Transit gaol at Pot'ma should concern himself with such a small matter as the pin-sharp biting of the louse . |
| 24 | Or they are held in the arms and quietly soothed — of course they 're sad to be going . |
| 25 | Although they were held in the shadow of the assassinations of President Ranasinghe Premadasa and an opposition leader , Lalith Athulathmudali , and in sharp contrast to the provincial elections held in 1988 , not a gun was fired . |
| 26 | I did , yes , erm , when erm , we thought our prisoner was finished the co-ordinators wrote to me and said would I be interested , would our group be interested in erm , writing to Yugoslavia 's still , because with the Civil War going on there 's lots of cases coming up , for example there was a whole hospital full of patients that were taken prisoner I do n't know if they were actually physically removed or whether they were held in the hospital without access to medical treatment for something like ten days , and erm , Saria did say she 'd help me last time and I wrote back and said yes , two of us could write once a month , well they 're taken that very liberally and , and , got two or three things from the already and erm , if anyone else is interested in writing an odd letter say once a month to Yugoslavia maybe they could erm , let me know later on . . |
| 27 | They were held in the canteen . |
| 28 | They were held in the open , before a portable altar , and three bishops were present , in gold and crimson and purple and white , as well as all the churchmen who could contrive to be there , and several thousand people from Fife and Angus and Lennox and Strathearn and even further away . |
| 29 | It plays world and indie music , it has face-painters and babies , and , if you 're interested , it 's held in the Town Hall in Shoreditch on Saturday nights . |
| 30 | He is held in the highest esteem by all who know him . |