Example sentences of "[been] held [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aircraft have been held for a week because Paramount owes Bristol and Birmingham International airports £1.7million . |
| 2 | Campaigns have been held across a number of universities asking this question to raise awareness about AIDS and HIV . |
| 3 | For Raymond , whose county had been held as a fief of Aquitaine since 1173 , the replacement of Richard by his elder brother held out the prospect of release from a galling sense of subordination . |
| 4 | Perhaps because of its success , it has been held as a model of scholarly inquiry ; social scientists have tried to emulate what they believed were the methods of physics : formulating a testable hypothesis , setting up an experiment which could be replicated , carefully observing and measuring the results , and proving or disproving the hypothesis . |
| 5 | Whilst the venue on this occasion was central and it was not the first time the A.G.M. had been held on a Friday evening , the Committee appreciates that perhaps the idea of holding the Meeting on the evening before the Dinner Dance to enable those travelling to London to attend both events was not a good one . |
| 6 | ANNIVERSARY celebrations have been held at a number of branches in recent weeks but the biggest birthday of them all — 160 years — was at Hawick . |
| 7 | Where it is evident that the directors have ‘ knowledge and experience ’ in the area of business , on the other hand , they have been held to a standard demanding no more than ordinary prudence . |
| 8 | I was unable to share his joy , not particularly because my home team had been held to a draw , but because I fell headlong into the tent , throwing a pan of boiling rice everywhere . |
| 9 | The meeting to implement this merger of separate groups is said to have been held during a football match on 3 February 1930 ( presumably the match distracted attention from the little group ) . |
| 10 | Talks between the ISA , IWSRA and the Provincial associations have been held in a bid to formulate a new constitution together with a set of policies and financial implications for the new body which will be known as Irish Squash . |
| 11 | It has been held in a number of cases that if a person claims to have a legitimate expectation , this will give that person standing to make an application for judicial review unless the claim is totally frivolous . |
| 12 | Martin Richmond , who 's from Stoke Orchard in Gloucestershire , has been held in a Katmandu jail since the beginning of December . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Chambly seat had been held by a member of the ruling Progressive Conservative Party ( PCP ) who had resigned after pleading guilty to charges of fraud . |
| 15 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) confirmed on Feb. 21 that four of its representatives had been held by a faction of the mujaheddin , reported to be the Hezb-e-Islami ( led by Hekmatyar ) , since Jan. 12 . |
| 16 | Heinrich Strübig , 51 , and Thomas Kemptner , 30 , had been held by a group led by Abdel-Hadi Hamadei , a member of the Hezbollah leadership . |