Example sentences of "[be] hold [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the fourth session of the Hague peace conference on Sept. 26 , attended by the Foreign Ministers of all the republics , Lord Carrington said that the ceasefire seemed to be holding sufficiently for the conference to carry on and to accelerate its work . |
| 2 | The Cabinet reshuffle on Sept. 16 — the first since January 1989 — was widely seen as paving the way for the next election , expected to be held ahead of the constitutional deadline of June 1992 . |
| 3 | The child may initially need to be held briefly on the chair , but the parent can release hand pressure as soon as the child settles on the chair . |
| 4 | A Valentine Dance will be held tomorrow at the Hurworth Grange Community Centre . |
| 5 | A ROSE queen festival and June fair will be held tomorrow in the church hall and grounds of St Luke 's Church in Mill Lane , Wallasey . |
| 6 | A ROSE queen festival and June fair will be held tomorrow in the church hall and grounds of St Luke 's Church in Wallasey . |
| 7 | On June 21 the Polisario Front reacted strongly — with a threat of future resumption of hostilities — to an announcement by the Moroccan government that Morocco 's forthcoming local and general elections would be held also in the Western Sahara . |
| 8 | CRUCIAL talks will be held today over the future of Monktonhall Colliery in Midlothian which is fighting for survival . |
| 9 | EMERGENCY talks will be held today over the future of Monktonhall Colliery as it struggles to fulfil its contracts while carrying £1.7 million in debts . |
| 10 | However , the trucks failed to appear and they learned that talks will be held today with the telecommunications consortium . |
| 11 | The context can be in terms of receipt and transmit logs and distribution lists which will be held separately from the actual message . |
| 12 | A column entitled ‘ Bulletin ’ informs her that Marilyn French will be discussing her new book , Beyond Power : Women , Men and Morals , at a public meeting to be held later in the week in London , and it crosses Robyn 's mind , not for the first time , that it is a pity she lives so far from the metropolis where such exciting events are always happening . |
| 13 | On May 2 Arpad Göncz was elected by 339 votes to 31 as its Speaker and thus as interim President of the Hungarian Republic , pending a decision by the Assembly on how presidential elections should be held later in the year . |
| 14 | The struggle between the hardliners and the newly resurgent reformists , once again apparently receiving the patronage of the country 's veteran statesman-leader Deng Xiaoping , was believed to be intensifying in the run-up to the 14th party congress due to be held later in the year . |
| 15 | A BT spokesman said further trials would be held later in the year before a final decision is made on making the system available nationally . |
| 16 | I 'll get Matron to handle them ’ — he looked up at her , and she nodded — ‘ and tell all press callers that a press conference will be held here in the board room at ten A.M. tomorrow . ’ |
| 17 | As soon as Ellie was seated , she began to rib her gently about her life in England , about how sorry she felt for her living in such a confusing place ; regaled her with insights on the local population , and the arrangements being made for the wedding , which was to be held here in the Hall . |
| 18 | A joint Directors of Planning meeting is to be held shortly on the Structure Plan Review and any issues arising will affect the timescale . |
| 19 | N may be too large for there to be room for that number of add instructions to be held economically in the store , or the value of N may not be known when the program is being prepared ( for example it might be read in as a piece of data ) . |
| 20 | A Change Review Meeting will be held periodically between the New OED Computer Group Manager and the New OED Project Director . |
| 21 | A Change Review Meeting will be held periodically between the New OED Computer Group Manager and the New OED Project Director . |
| 22 | A Change Review meeting should be held periodically between the New OED Computer Group Manager and the New OED Project Director . |
| 23 | A Change Review meeting should be held periodically between the New OED Computer Group Manager and the New OED Project Director . |
| 24 | Meetings began to be held all over the West Country in village halls and school gyms to debate the issues . |
| 25 | In the end families like the Dersinghams seem to be held upright by the social system without actually having anything very much to contribute to it . |
| 26 | The dancing will be held there in the evening . |
| 27 | Mr Hutton 's desk was a shaped piece of black wood with a single file on it , and the heavily bound books that covered one wall appeared to be held there by the power of faith , no shelves being visible . |
| 28 | In this instance , the jaws should be held together with the nose pointing upwards . |
| 29 | The two 1973 elections , i.e. for Local Government as well as the Assembly , were held immediately after the advertising campaign and the electorate could concentrate on one method of voting , but since that time two Westminster elections were conducted by means of the X-vote , and it is possible that some voters may have been confused . |
| 30 | On the first day of the conference it was apparently agreed that Taiwan should be accepted as one of the Forum 's dialogue partners — those countries outside the South Pacific — currently the USA , UK , France , China , Canada , Japan and the European Communities — with which talks were held immediately after the conclusion of the heads of government conference . |