Example sentences of "held [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is planned to be held as an annual event until the end of the decade . |
| 2 | Enterprise zone property trusts are established to be held as an investment for a very long period ( usually 25 years ) and as Capital Ventures warns : ‘ You may have difficulty in selling your investment before realisation of the underlying property … ’ |
| 3 | Superseded dictionary material is held as an on-line archive in the database . |
| 4 | From 1063 to 1202 , the duchy of Gascony was held with Aquitaine by the counts of Poitou , but it was , unlike Poitou , held as an autonomous domain . |
| 5 | This was held for an unexpired term of six years ‘ from Christmas last ’ at £140 per annum ; it was offered ( fortunately unsuccessfully ) by the new proprietor , Mr Collier , for £600 . |
| 6 | The blockade held for an amazing eight months before the army broke it up . |
| 7 | In 1912 official control over the Legislative Council was reduced when an election was held for an ‘ Educated Ceylonese ’ seat . |
| 8 | In a televised demonstration , held during an international football match in the Ethiopian capital , demonstrators carried posters demanding the obelisk 's return , and 40,000 football fans chanted , ‘ Let it return ’ . |
| 9 | The 1990 elections were held against an unfamiliar background of uncertainty within the Japanese political system . |
| 10 | Leeson had protected the photograph with two thin pieces of white cardboard held with an elastic band . |
| 11 | Treaty , assumes new obligations which conflict with rights held under an earlier agreement ipso facto agrees to forgo the exercise of such rights to the extent necessary for the performance of its new obligations ( cf. summary at p. 1 , para. 2 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Information disclosed on discovery in legal proceedings is clearly held under an obligation of confidence and may be used only for the purpose of those proceedings . |
| 14 | It goes almost without saying that karate competitions must be held in an atmosphere of respect , for the self , for the opponent and for the members of the refereeing panel . |
| 15 | Inexpensive seed propagators consist of a transparent plastic lid that fits over a normal seed tray or a number of small plastic or expanded polystyrene ‘ cells ’ held in an outer drip tray . |
| 16 | Present , if not correct , were a tired but not too emotional Tony , sorry ANTHONY H WILSON and various members of the INSPIRAL CARPETS whom let's face it , would go to a party held in an empty crisp packet . |
| 17 | In March 1991 , a student in Assam was arrested and held in an army camp for five days , where he was beaten and electric shocks were applied to his body . |
| 18 | Late night discussions held in an ‘ open political forum ’ around the noticeboard area . |
| 19 | Similar conclusions can be drawn about the number of jobs held in an average career but there remain marked differences according to age , educational background , gender and size of firm . |
| 20 | The mask may be held in an implied processor register ( for example accumulator zero in a computer with an array of accumulators ) or in a store location specified in the instruction . |
| 21 | The fundamental opposition which may erupt between economy and society was noted by Simmel , who observed that the merchant is identified with the relative autonomy and abstraction of flexible exchange and is therefore often , as ‘ stranger ’ , held in an ambiguous and partially anomalous relation to the host society ( e.g. Simmel 1950 : 402–8 ) . |
| 22 | Two conferences were held in an attempt to resolve the dispute , with the court attempting to determine what privileges , if any , the government was claiming . |
| 23 | Phillip Stoneman FHCIMA has been corresponding with Paul Ride , held in an Iraqi jail . |
| 24 | The project examines the values held in an industrial community in Central Scotland , particularly those relating to formal and informal work , and investigates whether these values have changed in response to the high level of unemployment there . |
| 25 | Abdul al Wahhab Abdul Salam Attar became Minister of Planning , a portfolio held in an acting capacity by Shaikh Hisham Nazer since his appointment in 1986 as Minister for Petroleum and Mineral Resources [ see p. 35289 ] . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A known mass of the sample is held in an atmosphere of pure oxygen at about 25 atmospheres . |
| 28 | A man who was held in an Indian prison for two years has accused the British Foreign office of failing to help him . |
| 29 | These discussions are held on an informal basis mainly within the planning department , but in some instances the opinions of other departments are sought . |
| 30 | The index is held on an IBM PC disk and is designed for oil companies and other would-be users of BGS data . |