Example sentences of "held [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of them are held through trusts with names like Jupiter , Venus , and Mars , registered here at Morgan-Grenfell . |
| 2 | Several unused terminals will be held as spares . |
| 3 | Deletion of a home record may mean that , even though the home position is now free , a number of other records that originally randomized to that address are held as synonyms . |
| 4 | But this represented an increase in the stock of gold held as reserves of only 17 per cent . |
| 5 | Precisely the same fear of revaluation underlay the continual reluctance of the German and Japanese authorities to see their currencies held as reserves by other countries . |
| 6 | As we have seen , beliefs held about women were simply the logical corollary of biological views , or the understanding of the origin of humanity . |
| 7 | The findings to be considered here ( and the broader body of research of which they are typical ) suggest that the link between education and occupation is much more tenuous than is often supposed and call into question many of the assumptions currently held about employers ’ attitudes to young workers and to educational standards . |
| 8 | In all , five meetings were held between members of the Senior Management Team ( Deputy Head ( Curriculum ) and the Director of Studies ) and the Head of the Art Department . |
| 9 | It sometimes helps to very gently swab the board in the developer tray with a cotton wool pad held between tongs or plastic tweezers . |
| 10 | In the third term a meeting is held between students and the Dean or Assistant Dean and Co-ordinator alone , following an agenda set in consultation with the Students ' Union . |
| 11 | The process of normalization in relations with China [ see p. 37124 ] continued with talks held between officials in early December 1989 . |
| 12 | Annual holiday camps are held for boys and girls from poorer families who otherwise would not get away , with costs paid by the RUC ; these are so popular that parents ring requesting that their children be allowed to go again . |
| 13 | Tomorrow a big party is being held for friends , children , grandchildren and great grandchildren . |
| 14 | As part of the survey , open diagnostic workshops were held for women to share their experiences and ideas for a better future for women at the Bar . |
| 15 | The public sector would then be required to justify the retention of land held for projects not included in approved programmes and underdeveloped land or property before an independent adjudicator . |
| 16 | for several years Leonard had attended various camps held for youngsters whose parents were able to afford to send them . |
| 17 | The day was held for customers and staff who in groups of three , set off for an 18-hole Stableford competition ( I 'm told this will mean something to golfers ! ) |
| 18 | A psychological rationalization could be said to be a justification for a position , which is held for reasons not related to the justification . |
| 19 | This script began with Aunt Lilian 's release from the shabby asylum in which she had been held for decades . |
| 20 | Plainly , events such as the Durham Miners ' Gala , which has been held for decades fall within the rubric . |
| 21 | In March 1912 a test was held for probationers . |
| 22 | The Albanian Democratic Party on Aug. 8 proposed the incorporation of Kosovo into Albania if the break-up of Yugoslavia continued , and the Democratic Alliance of Kosovo on Aug. 16 announced that a referendum would be held for Albanians in the region on their future within Yugoslavia . |
| 23 | Regarding the Bethlehem Hospital , in 1810 a competition was held for designs for a new hospital in St George 's Fields , Southwark ; but in the event none of the entries which gained the premiums was actually adopted , and instead Lewis was instructed to incorporate their best features in a new design of his own . |
| 24 | These elections were the first to be held for offices above the lowest administrative level since China became a republic in 1911 and the fist nationwide elections for People 's Congresses since the outset of the Cultural Revolution . |
| 25 | In January and February , three seminars were held for centres that will be piloting general SVQs for the first time from next session . |
| 26 | All that unpopularity in the country or in the Commons manages to achieve is a revolt by a handful of predictable Tory rebels , a few careful speeches about the need to present policy better , and a vague anxiety about the results of an election not due to be held for years . |
| 27 | They are the ex-Communist bosses and party officials who are managing to fix up jobs for each other while pushing others out of jobs they have held for years and onto the streets . |
| 28 | Many are held for months or years in administrative or pretrial detention , usually incommunicado . |
| 29 | The reverse pattern held for subjects who wrote with an inverted posture . |
| 30 | During these , competitions may be held for ideas which will improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the organisation . |