Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] hold [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When he did so , he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 " . |