Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have hold the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While state-owned and foreign businesses have held the centre of the stage for three decades , tens of thousands of informal sector artisans have been producing a range of goods for use in households , agriculture , transport and construction . |
| 2 | Since 1969 the centrist Free Democrats have held the balance of power in the Bundestag . |
| 3 | He has had a very distinguished career and by dint of old-fashioned virtues and a marvellously warm personality has held the Party together on many occasions . |
| 4 | The hotel had not participated in any formal training scheme , nor accepted industrial release students , nor recruited graduates : the previous General Manager having held the view that the only worthwhile training was a lengthy apprenticeship within the industry . |
| 5 | The Chairman , for example , was one of no fewer than five Irish Americans to have held the top job in UM . |
| 6 | The new army had to hold the Western Front after the demoralization of the French , following General Nivelle 's failed offensive of 16 April-21 May 1917 and did it with such success , that Allied victory became a possibility in 1918 . |
| 7 | Most of the new members had held the same portfolios in the Council of Ministers , including Marshal Dmitry Yazov as Defence Minister , Sergei Lushchikov as Justice Minister , and Gen. Vladimir Kryuchkov as chair of the State Security Committee ( KGB ) . |