Example sentences of "hold a [noun] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , again as mentioned above , a lessee sometimes holds a share in the management company responsible for the maintenance of the building and grounds , which is an advantage to him or her in giving him or her a say in these important matters . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman may have noted what a Labour Member said the other day : ’ The party which holds a majority in the United Kingdom Parliament has a mandate for the whole United Kingdom . ’ |
| 3 | Everyone near you holds a razor in the palm of his hand . |
| 4 | Both John Westley , who walked more than 9,000 miles around the British coast , and the Morgan 4/4 already hold a place in the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 5 | At this time the Common ( or official ) Seal showed Glasgow Cathedral in the background and a robed female figure holding a cornucopia in the foreground with the motto ‘ amicus certus in re incerta ’ - a quotation from the poet Ennius — was adopted . |
| 6 | The situation where one French machinegun section found itself holding a hole in the front two hundred yards wide with its two machine guns for several days in complete detachment from the rest of the army , was by no means unique . |
| 7 | A French lieutenant holding a bunker in the village noted that under the bombardment ‘ this vast block , 30 metres square , oscillated , at times actually rising up , like a ship ’ Yet still the suicide machine-gun nests stayed behind in the pulverised debris and mowed down the German assault waves . |
| 8 | If a great opera such as this has difficulty holding a place in the repertoire , what hope is there for the merely excellent ? |
| 9 | The Flying Scotsman may never again set any records for speed , but loved and cared-for , no doubt she 'll go on holding a place in the hearts of steam enthusiasts for another 70 years , a reminder of the days when trains were smoky , dirty , smelly , and beautiful . |
| 10 | Her daughter remembers her nursing a baby with one hand and holding a book in the other . |
| 11 | Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif , while holding a reception in the team 's honour at Islamabad , urged the entire nation to follow the disciplined dedication of the cricketers in all walks of life . |
| 12 | The students were enraged at these new rules and on 29 December a crowd of between two and three thousand from several Beijing campuses openly defied the authorities by holding a demonstration in the university quarter . |
| 13 | can I suggest and I du n no , it might not work we have a lot of children who find it difficult to wo to work at home could we hold a detention in the resource centre for the hour so if other children want to use it , I do n't know , is it open after school ? |
| 14 | The judice per le indagini preliminari will hold a hearing in the presence of the accused and his counsel on the basis of the prosecutor 's file . |
| 15 | The LA has the power to revoke , suspend , curtail or prematurely terminate a licence if the holder has ( a ) broken any conditions attaching to his licence , or ( b ) been convicted of any offences which are of the type relevant to determination of the applicant 's fitness to hold a licence in the first place , or ( c ) been made bankrupt or gone into liquidation . |
| 16 | Now the time had come for Mrs Wright to be churched and the baby christened ; every member of the garrison who was not occupied at the ramparts had assembled in the rubble-strewn yard of the Residency to hear the service , for it was no longer safe to hold a service in the ruined Church . |
| 17 | Sufficient signatures had been collected to hold a referendum in the Crimea on independence from Ukraine . |
| 18 | But , erm all that time I was running the young wives ' and we used to hold a stall in the garden , at the garden party at the church , and w when you took your takings in , you know th the treasurer would say you know , who are you , you know and I used to say young wives ' and then one day I said well , you know we 're no longer young wives , you know we were getting old and I decided there and then I 'd had enough of young wives ' , you know and er , er because I , I said , I , I was secretary and I 'll close it down it , it erm the young wives ' closed down and er er it , it had actually closed down and this lady was marvellous this secretary of the Guild , who would kno known mother and she was a councillor , she come dashing down , you know you , you , th the young wives ' has closed and you know you 've got excuse . |
| 19 | Members from both sections have expressed a desire to hold a disco in the Village Hall . |
| 20 | Members from both sections have expressed a desire to hold a disco in the Village Hall . |
| 21 | Before long , the Earl was totally committed to the project and had agreed to hold a Tournament in the style of the middle ages , ending with a medieval banquet . |
| 22 | Once it had dispersed , Bunting was allowed to hold a meeting in the Diamond and for a short time afterwards there was tension as rival groups of teenagers faced each other , but police and DCAC stewards persuaded them to disperse before any trouble broke out . |
| 23 | The Veterinary Medical Association so formed , familiarly known since then as the VMA , received permission to hold a meeting in the College theatre on 22 November 1836 . |
| 24 | A group of women lumberjacks have held a reunion in the woodland where some of them worked during World War Two . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | In two by-elections for the National Assembly , the DLP lost a seat in the North Chungchong province and only narrowly held a seat in the southern city of Taegu , a traditional conservative stronghold , after an intensive and expensive campaign . |
| 27 | And held a position in the industry at a level not less than junior or first line management at the time of application . |
| 28 | The intellectual and emotional leader of that original collective was Fred Newman , a Korean war veteran , who had grown up in the Bronx , held a PhD in the philosophy of science from Stanford and abruptly turned to Marxism in the mid-1960s . |
| 29 | The objectors sang hymns and said prayers ‘ to protect the people inside the hall from demonic possession , ’ while 30 friends held a service in the church . |
| 30 | In 838 , Louis the Pious assigned Charles a bajulus ( literally , guardian , or superviser ) , Atto , who held a countship in the Rhineland near Mainz and ( along with his two brothers ) was now being promoted hard by the emperor to keep Louis the German in check . |