Example sentences of "be hold the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , it 's true , you 're holding the final chapter in a long-running saga that began way back in 1985 . |
| 2 | one of the favourites to win the British Hangliding Championships is Pete Harvey from Milton Keynes … he helped Britain to third in the world cup which has just finished in California … now he 's taking off for Spain … that'ss where they 're holding the British competition … why its hot sunny and its ' not raining … |
| 3 | THE BFSS , in conjunction with The Game Conservancy Trust and The Lords Taverners , are holding the second Countryside Race Day on Newmarket 's Rowley Mile course on Saturday . |
| 4 | Timed to coincide with the major retrospective of Georgia O'Keeffe at the Hayward Gallery , Alex Reid and Lefevre are holding the first commercial exhibition of the artist 's work to be held in Europe ( 8 April to 7 May ) . |
| 5 | London University 's Birkbeck College in collaboration with information technology consultants Brameur Ltd are holding the third annual conference on electronic imaging and the visual arts . |
| 6 | Datapro Canada , Unican and UniForum Canada are holding the Fourth Annual Executive Symposium on Open Systems & Client/Server Computing at the Sheraton Centre in Toronto April 6 to 8 : they 've rounded up people like Doug Michels of Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Roel Pieper of Unix System Laboratories Inc , John Paul of Compaq Computer Corp , Jon Gossels of the Open Software Foundation , Bill O'Shea of NCR Corp , Heinz Lycklama of Open Systems Technology Associates and George Shaffner of X/Open Co Ltd to speak . |
| 7 | A young French assistant , who had been holding the white horse on which Duclos ranged the plantation each day , stepped forward at a signal from him and steadied the animal while he mounted . |
| 8 | This looks even more unconstitutional — but while the lawyers debate that question , the government could be holding the monetary line . |
| 9 | On the 26 August , we will be holding the promised follow-up to our Emergency Services open day . |
| 10 | On the afternoon of 26 August we will be holding the promised follow-up to our Emergency Services open day ; it will only involve representatives from the Police and British Gas South Western and I will be pleased if you or other senior colleagues can take part . |
| 11 | On the 26 August , we will be holding the promised follow-up to our emergency Services open day . |
| 12 | Pallant House , an elegant eighteenth-century red brick town house in the centre of Chichester , will be holding the following exhibitions in 1993 : 6 February to 3 April ‘ John Piper and the Stage ’ , focusing on his close association with Chichester Cathedral ; 20 April to 12 June ‘ Ivon Hitchins 's Nudes ’ , commemorating the centenary year of the artist 's birth ; 29 June to 18 September ‘ Henry Moore and the Sea ’ , includes drawings , sculptures , models and graphics ; 5 October to 1 January 1994 ‘ The Patronage of Contemporary Artists ’ , modern British art from private collections . |
| 13 | The Atomic Spectroscopy Group will be holding the sixth Biennial national atomic spectroscopy symposium ( BNASS ) on 22–24 July at Polytechnic South West , Plymouth . |
| 14 | Further skirmishes will be held the following day at Highfields Park , University Boulevard . |
| 15 | ( In line with a review of the Constitution the President had said in November 1989 that free elections would be held the following year in which " all political currents will be able to express themselves and share power " . ) |
| 16 | In line with a review of the Constitution Siyad Barre said in November 1989 that free elections would be held the following year in which " all political currents will be able to express themselves and share power " . |
| 17 | On May 14 , police arrested more than 1,000 Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) supporters in Sind , following an announcement by PPP leader Benazir Bhutto that protest rallies were to be held the following day over alleged ballot-rigging in earlier local elections . |
| 18 | The light cast by one of the infrequent street lamps glistened on a freshly pasted poster extolling the virtues of Commendatore Ruggiero Franco Miletti , whose funeral would be held the following afternoon . |
| 19 | With legislative elections due to be held the following year , de Gaulle knew that he might soon have to face a hostile majority committed to clawing back power from the president . |
| 20 | A meeting of the Birkenhead Police and Community Forum will be held the following evening at Tranmere Methodist Church Hall , Whitfield Street , Tranmere . |
| 21 | The actual wedding was to be held the next day , and then Changez and Jamila would stay at the Ritz for a couple of nights . |
| 22 | Leroy Burns was rebuking a demonstrator , who had arrived to take part in a rally to be held the next day against racism and the National Young Conservatives . |
| 23 | It is hoped to attract 500 people to each of the two performances and to follow up the event with an ‘ Open Day ’ to be held the next week at which the public will be encouraged to try Medau for themselves . |
| 24 | The fact that the abortion referenda will be held the same day may also count against Fianna Fail . |
| 25 | There are two members I think have spoken from the Liberal benches concerning funding bureaucracy and I would agree entirely with what that means but they 've also mentioned in the same bet , budgetary control and if you 're going to control budgets , you have to have a minimal amount of bureaucracy and the function really of the head of the er of the project , er the head of the the post that 's now slipped into oblivion with this motion , would actually have been to do two things it would have been to hold the two groups together and it would have been to have overall control of that budget and it would n't have been easy and I would n't have like the job and I wouldn't 've applied for it and certainly would have been very difficult indeed . |
| 26 | Journalists reported that forces loyal to General Noriega were holding the northern border regions of Panama . |
| 27 | I wish we were having a picnic , and that it was hot , and I do indeed wish that we were all together ; though even if I were to hold the whole world against my chest , it would probably save us from very little . |
| 28 | Crocker had to fly back to the USA the following day , so there was limited time to convert John Allison with the airshow being held the following day . |
| 29 | It 's how we 've , on the actual er vehicles there is actual metal fastenings that 's holding the whole trailer together . |
| 30 | The Office des Communications Sociales of Montreal , Canada , is holding the first national conference on the Church and communication in Cap-Rouge , 4–6 June . |