Example sentences of "held a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Campaigners against a new detention centre for the immigration service have held a torchlight protest . |
| 2 | the priests would not have held a trial on a feast day ; |
| 3 | Although Mr Hornsby was quick to stress that the investors have held a dialogue with the Revenue and have nothing to hide , he admitted that they got ‘ very upset ’ when letters from the Revenue began arriving . |
| 4 | In 1960 and 1962 the Amberley/Pulborough marshes alone held a winter peak of about 3,000 birds . |
| 5 | The whole lot was to come down and make way for a million square feet of office space , and the company developing the site had held a competition to find a master-planner . |
| 6 | It was reported on May 5 , 1990 , that the PSL had held a reunification congress . |
| 7 | Police from both squads have held a case conference with serial rape expert Ann Davis . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've just held a case conference , Mrs Abberley , ’ Miller began . |
| 9 | They would not let her speak at table and made her wear a white canvas apron and a short gown ‘ so that she should be held a fool ’ ; but , said Margery with unholy self-satisfaction , ‘ she was held in more worship than they were , wherever they went ’ . |
| 10 | When I moved to Gloucestershire in 1961 I was told by a neighbour to lie low and remember that , although the progeny of an adjacent county ( Worcestershire ) , I would be held a foreigner by Gloucestershire folk for at least 25 years . |
| 11 | Workmates of a computer technician who 's thought to have have killed his wife and children before committing suicide have held a memorial service to pay their last respects . |
| 12 | Often this tag has been applied to the programme , but never , ever , has it held a vestige of truth . |
| 13 | A group of women lumberjacks have held a reunion in the woodland where some of them worked during World War Two . |
| 14 | The election , which was held a year ahead of schedule after Jugnauth dissolved the Legislative Assembly on Aug. 6 , involved 10 parties which fielded 331 candidates . |
| 15 | The various buildings on the New Cross site also held a part of the University of London , a teacher education college , and in the late seventies the Laban School of Dancing . |
| 16 | The association with Fahreddin Acemi of the only information in the Turkish sources about the activities of the early Muftis may well not be entirely coincidental , for in one very important respect he seems to have differed from his two predecessors in the traditional list , Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan , in that he appears not to have held a kadilik simultaneously with the Muftilik , whereas Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan apparently both held the kadilik of Bursa at the same time as the Muftilik . |
| 17 | Not only is there no suggestion in the biographical sources or in documents that Fahreddin Acemi ever held a kadilik , but there is also positive evidence that for long periods in his Muftilik he could not have been kadi of Edirne , at least , since someone else was . |
| 18 | But until the moment he scored the equalising goal , the article claimed , ‘ if someone had held a referendum to find the worst player on the field , Gascoigne would have deserved a large chunk of the votes — or maybe all of them . ’ |
| 19 | Aquino made it clear in an interview that a new one-year notice would not be issued until the government had held a referendum . |
| 20 | But the President held a referendum and won convincing support from South Africa 's whites . |
| 21 | Timex talks Executives and union leaders , including Gavin Laird , general secretary of the AEUW , have held a second meeting in a bid to end the bitter four-month Timex Dundee dispute . |
| 22 | Those who hold or have held a professorship in the British Isles are not eligible , and any publications cited or listed in connection with a previous successful candidature for an RSC award will not considered by the assessors . |
| 23 | Up to 5,000 ethnic Turks and members of the Pomak community ( descendants of Bulgarians converted to Islam during Ottoman rule ) had held a vigil outside the National Assembly building on Dec. 28-29 , but had dispersed after the contents of the resolution had been disclosed to them by National Assembly Speaker Stanko Todorov . |
| 24 | This decline is possibly of post-war origin , as in 1949 Thorney Island , the marshes around Pagham Harbour and Selsey , and Rye Harbour still held a total of about 150 pairs compared to about 35 in 1967 . |
| 25 | Christie 's held a charity auction , and up and down the country the rotaries and women 's institutes geared themselves for yet another season of money-raising fetes and flower shows . |
| 26 | Saddam Hussein had just held a press conference with the hostages . |
| 27 | The group had held a press conference two days earlier at which they called on the Fourth Communist Party Congress ( Cuarto Congreso del Partido Comunista ) to instigate radical political reforms and also attempted to distribute a statement to this effect to Congress delegates . |
| 28 | Veterans of the evacuation held a commemoration ceremony on Sunday , and I T N's Robert Hall was with them . |
| 29 | Thomas Thurland held 1½ but Daniel Höchstetter does not appear to have held a portion . |
| 30 | Luigi was also the dentist 's assistant , and he was often called upon to perform urgent extractions himself , as the dentist only held a surgery once a week . |