Example sentences of "hold [adj] [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | LASMO holds extensive interests in the northern part of the Southern Gas Basin centred around the Caister-Murdoch system . |
| 2 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , we hold televised debates in the House twice a week — |
| 3 | This step is important in that organizational transformation always necessitates the need for changes in the behavior of those who hold key roles in the organization . |
| 4 | Though it was holding weekly meetings in the 1920s it was no new group , having started a hundred years previously in a London coffee house where members met to discuss debtors and exchange information about how best to deal with bad payers . |
| 5 | persuading legislators is essential to the policy-making process but , in addition , non-elected officials holding pivotal positions in the bureaucracy must also be convinced of the justification of the president 's proposals . |
| 6 | Now back in Bucharest he finds the people who stifled his union at birth are still holding important positions in the film industry under the umbrella of the National Salvation Front . |
| 7 | Numerous English towns were granted royal charters to hold weekly markets in the Middle Ages . |
| 8 | Finally , victims of deviance also tend to hold different places in the two enforcement strategies . |
| 9 | In 1672 he obtained permission from Charles II to hold Presbyterian meetings in the house . |
| 10 | During May divisions emerged among Palestinians over the response to Israel 's April offer to hold municipal elections in the occupied territories [ see p. 38885 ] . |
| 11 | Another recorded that some held high positions in the Ministry of War : their arrest , the report added , would be ‘ a political embarrassment ’ . |
| 12 | But it is not so generally known and acknowledged that some of them in their day held high positions in the scientific world , nor has sufficient commendation been bestowed upon the whole body for their unselfish zeal in the promotion and encouragement of the study of Natural History , and especially Botany , as an essential element of medical education . |
| 13 | He described himself as ‘ a young man of pure British descent , some of whose forefathers have held high positions in the British army . |
| 14 | The rise of the Nevilles and the Percies in the late fourteenth century was the first occasion when families of genuine northern origin came into the front rank of the nobility — one may exclude the duchy of Lancaster from any such comment , because it was closely connected with the royal family and also held substantial lands in the Midlands and the South . |
| 15 | To Parker , who , it was rumoured , held major shares in the firm . |
| 16 | Delegations from Israel , Syria and Lebanon , and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation , met around a single conference table in the Royal Palace , Madrid , on Oct. 30 , 31 and Nov. 1 , and held bilateral talks in the Palacio de Parcente on Nov. 3 . |
| 17 | Ostwald in Germany and Bancroft in the United States , who held dominant positions in the world of physical chemistry , especially as editors of the principal journals , were influential in promoting such ideas . |
| 18 | Two others , Mr Constantin Pirvulescu and Mr Gheorghe Apostol , both held senior positions in the party during the Ceausescu era , which dates from the mid-Sixties . |
| 19 | At national level , Adamu M. Fika and Stephen B Agodo , both of whom had previously held senior posts in the Cabinet office , were named as the administrative secretaries ; a further 44 secretaries were appointed at state level . |
| 20 | The PSOE government at first tried to break the pattern by appointing a ‘ professional ’ businessman to the chairmanship in 1983 , and by purging those who had come to RENFE as a result of their political connections with earlier governments ( see Diario 16 , 4 , 5 February 1983 ) ; about twenty people who had held senior posts in the previous UCD administration were on RENFE 's pay roll when the PSOE came to power ( Cinco Días , 2 November 1983 ) . |