Example sentences of "[adv] held [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highlight of the Junior School charities programme is the Summer Charities Fair held on the lawns in June . |
| 2 | The recent contemporary art fair held at the Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Hall ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , pp. 17 and 19 ) attracted 58,533 visitors and was adjudged successful by its organisers although no sales figures were released . |
| 3 | In Athens ( hitherto held by the ND ) the pro-ND independent , former Pasok Cabinet minister Antonis Tritsis [ see p. 36042 ] , was elected mayor with 50.2 per cent of the vote , defeating the Pasok-Left Coalition candidate , and former Minister of Culture Melina Mercouri , who polled 46 per cent . |
| 4 | Ruth rose too , suddenly held by a despair more absolute than any she 'd yet felt . |
| 5 | By the sixteenth century the initiative long held by the defender , surrendered in the late fourteenth century , had been largely regained . |
| 6 | Well they were just just held in the barns too . |
| 7 | In Whessoe 's case they offered shareholders one new share for every four already held at a price of 185p to raise funds to purchase the Californian-based Varec . |
| 8 | The Halifax says that about 20% of the money deposited in Tessas was new money — the remaining 80% was transferred from other accounts already held with the society . |
| 9 | the shares , together with any shares already held by the person acquiring them carry not less than 75% of the votes ; and |
| 10 | would , together with any shares already held by the person or persons by or on whose behalf the advertisement is being issued , carry not less than that percentage of those voting rights . ’ |
| 11 | It examines court divorce records and data on divorce already held by the Registrar General for Scotland . |
| 12 | Does it refer to territory already held by the Croatians or does it apply to old frontiers which are up for grabs ? |
| 13 | The shares concerned must consist of or include shares carrying 75 per cent or more of the voting rights attributable to share capital which are exercisable in all circumstances at any general meeting of the company or , when added to the shares already held by the offeror , carry not less than 75 per cent . |
| 14 | It was not thickly populated or well defended , but it was much larger than the islands the English already held in the Caribbean , so it provided land for English emigrants for some years . |
| 15 | The meetings are normally held in the Council Chamber at Moorgate Place on the first Wednesday of every month ( except September ) . |
| 16 | Informal briefings and seminars are generally held over the lunch-time period , which is only flexible for scientific and administrative staff . |
| 17 | Although mineral rights are generally held by the surface landowner , they may have been retained by a previous landowner when the surface freehold was sold , particularly in areas with a long history of mining such as South-west England . |
| 18 | They should be consistent — that is , generally held throughout the organization . |
| 19 | For five years after her departure , Edinburgh castle was loyally held in the queen 's name under the command of her secretary , William Maitland of Lethington , and the distinguished soldier Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange , in spite of Kirkcaldy 's having led the forces opposed to her at Langside . |
| 20 | It was nonetheless held by the majority of the House of Lords that the three year period ran from the date when the workman suffered the injury and not from the earlier date when the manufacturers manufactured the defective machine . |
| 21 | Still held in the circle of his arms , Shae unconsciously squared her shoulders , preparing for the impossible challenge . |
| 22 | A north Oxfordshire G P , who was on Edward 's Heath recent mercy mission to Iraq , says he 's concerned for the health of hostages still held in the Gulf as the tension in the region begins to mount . |
| 23 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 24 | In the south they were either pagan or more probably belonged to that archaic South Arabian form of Judaism which is still held by the Falashas . |
| 25 | They were still held within the vice of their own fields , with all the complicated property rights which made it impossible to secure land for building development . |
| 26 | By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 27 | They may either be conceived as the ultimate arbiters of truth and values ( a function once held by the churches ) or they may meet certain religious or psychological needs . |
| 28 | But the ceremony was usually held in the morning and would not , therefore , have clashed with the NICRA demonstration . |
| 29 | If the IRB has any qualms in answering these questions come April 1992 , they should think very carefully if South Africa is to be a serious contender in what would probably be the first genuine and major international event ever held in the country . |
| 30 | Sample the many delights of the Japan Festival 1991 — the greatest arts festival ever held in the UK with more than 350 events in over 200 locations nationwide . |