Example sentences of "[verb] [been] hold [prep] [art] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It has been held under an equivalent section in England that , an adjournment having once been allowed on the ground that some requirement was not complied with , the justices had no power to adjourn a second time because another irregularity had occurred : R. v. Poole JJ. [ 1951 ] 2 T.L.R. 261 . |
| 4 | It has been held under the drink/driving law that the object of requiring the officer to be ‘ in uniform ’ was to ensure that the constable would be easily recognised as such by the public . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Meanwhile a memorial service has been held for the former cabinet minister and Cotswolds MP Nicholas Ridley . |
| 7 | A memorial service has been held for the survivors and relatives of those who lost their lives in an air crash fifty years ago . |
| 8 | A memorial service has been held for the survivors and relatives of those who lost their lives in an air crash fifty years ago . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Perhaps because of its success , it has been held as a model of scholarly inquiry ; social scientists have tried to emulate what they believed were the methods of physics : formulating a testable hypothesis , setting up an experiment which could be replicated , carefully observing and measuring the results , and proving or disproving the hypothesis . |
| 11 | Meanwhile the funeral has been held of a fifteen year old girl who was killed in a crash involving a stolen car . |
| 12 | I suggest that the best aid that could be given to East Timor would be an arms embargo on Indonesia until an independent United Nations inquiry has been held into the slaughter of many defenceless men , women and children by the Indonesian army . |
| 13 | Jackson , Mississippi-based LDDS Communications Inc , Metromedia Communications Corp and Resurgens Communications Group Inc have now reached the letter of intent stage in their plan to merge with LDDS shareholders retaining about 68.5% of the combined company and John Kluge , chairman of Metromedia , expected to be chairman of the combined company with Bernard Ebbers , LDDS chief executive , taking that post ; the combined company will be the fourth largest long-distance carrier in the US , a title that has been held by a whole string of companies over the past few years . |
| 14 | It has been held by the European Court of Human Rights that freedom of expression ( Article 10 ) constitutes one of the essential foundations of democratic society , one of the basic conditions for its progress and for the development of every man ( judgment of the Court of 7 December 1976 , Handyside Case , Series A , No.24 ) . |
| 15 | It has been held by the High Court that an agreement to settle an appeal made under s 54 , TMA 1970 was subject to the ordinary laws of contract and that it was therefore subject to rectification where , because of a mistake , the agreement was not in accordance with the parties ' intentions ( p 100 ) . |
| 16 | It has been held by the Court of Appeal in one instance , that the ‘ employer 's conduct ’ which entitles an employee to resign is conduct which ‘ fundamentally breaches ’ the employment contract . |
| 17 | It has been held by the Court of Appeal that the privilege against self-incrimination can be invoked in this context where , accepting the facts as alleged by the plaintiff , there is a reasonable apprehension on the part of the defendant that he might be prosecuted in the United Kingdom . |
| 18 | Even within types of offence , it has been held by the NIRC ( Hudson ( Birmingham ) Ltd v Winsper , 1973 ) that there are ‘ grades ’ of criminality . |
| 19 | It has been held in a number of cases that if a person claims to have a legitimate expectation , this will give that person standing to make an application for judicial review unless the claim is totally frivolous . |
| 20 | Martin Richmond , who 's from Stoke Orchard in Gloucestershire , has been held in a Katmandu jail since the beginning of December . |
| 21 | She heard him release the breath he 'd been holding in a sigh . |
| 22 | ‘ When he did so , he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Their report clearly indicated that this coroner had been wrong in his judgement of how he should conduct his inquest which , in the opinion of the committee , should have been held after the public inquiry into the cause of the accident . |
| 25 | Critics of the Vienna conference , notably the Tehran-based Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq ( SAIRI ) , had said at that time that the conference should have been held in the region to make it more accessible for the bulk of the exiled opposition . |
| 26 | The question for the court is whether the views could honestly have been held by a fair-minded person on facts known at the time . |
| 27 | Mobutu said that presidential elections , which should have been held before the expiry of his term of office at midnight that day , had not taken place " for reasons beyond our control but inherent in the dynamics of the process of democratization " . |
| 28 | The meeting to implement this merger of separate groups is said to have been held during a football match on 3 February 1930 ( presumably the match distracted attention from the little group ) . |
| 29 | In fact , in the early Merovingian period it seems to have been held by the rulers of the eastern kingdom , but after Sigibert I 's murder in 575 half of it was handed over to Guntram , presumably to cement an alliance between the young Childebert II and his uncle . |
| 30 | The UK visit was reported to be the first official visit by a Vietnamese Foreign Minister since the end of the Vietnam War , and the talks were reported to have been held in an atmosphere of frankness and goodwill , with both sides keen to improve economic and diplomatic links and to co-operate fully on the issue of the repatriation of " boat people " from Hong Kong . |