Example sentences of "hold [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | A Service of Remembrance is to be held in Aberdeen for all those who have lost their lives while working offshore in the North Sea . |
| 32 | A conference will be held in Budapest for all bidders this month , before the technical bids are evaluated in May . |
| 33 | The 10-week course , held in Londonderry for the first time , was aimed at women with a commercial idea which they wanted to turn into a business , or who wanted to develop a business already started . |
| 34 | Before leaving , they were both admitted as corresponding members of the American Society held in Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge . |
| 35 | A conference was held in April for schools wanting to introduce general SVQs . |
| 36 | A major seminar on general SVQs was held in March for headteachers and advisors in the Region . |
| 37 | A meeting between Israel , Egypt and the United States to have been held in preparation for a possible Israeli-Palestinian dialogue was apparently postponed after the attack . |
| 38 | His venom , both actual and metaphysical , was held in reserve for his wife ! ’ |
| 39 | It may be that both cases are standard , pre-wired back-up ploys : differentiating tripped from untripped flowers could simply be a far more precise use of the associative learning program , while chewing through may be a strategy normally held in reserve for robbing flowers too small to enter . |
| 40 | A ‘ pilot ’ residential workshop on ‘ Innovation in Teaching and Learning ’ was held in February for new academic staff . |
| 41 | A memorial service is to be held in Swindon for five youngsters who died when a car ploughed into them . |
| 42 | There the lucky ones among us were allowed half-way up the steps before being halted and held in position for twenty minutes while , I assume , the stewardess disentangled herself from more pressing engagements and tidied herself in readiness . |
| 43 | I hope that it represents a step towards the release of other detainees held in Malawi for political reasons . ’ |
| 44 | More than ten thousand British fans travelled to Barcelona last months to witness the first Olympics to be held in Europe for 20 years . |
| 45 | After the trial Orchin , Richmond and McCready were held in prison for about a month on the charge relating to the unlicensed pistol . |
| 46 | In the Hussainara case , it was revealed that a number of destitute women had been held in prison for several years awaiting the trials of men accused of raping them . |
| 47 | The family had not paid much attention to the terms of the eccentric patriarch 's last wishes , as the stipulation that all his possessions should be held in readiness for his return merely put the houses and their produce at the usual disposal of his family , while removing the problem of his personal presence and authority . |
| 48 | In 1980 a conference was held in Thailand for the organisation 's leaders . |
| 49 | In many respects they were not deceived by the images of life portrayed in women 's literature but had a very realistic idea of what married life held in store for them . |
| 50 | Wondering what the day held in store for us … and worrying about Giles . |
| 51 | Six weeks later , unaware of what the future held in store for him , Harry boarded the Berengaria with Aubrey , Cora-Beth and her father . |
| 52 | Lord Rawdon told the Committee of the whole House of Lords , which read his bill clause by clause in May , that he thought a debtor should be able to swear to the real cause of his debt and , if there was no question of fraud or any intention to abscond , he should not be held in custody for more than eight days and be discharged on filing common bail . |
| 53 | BANKER Lorrain Osman , 60 , held in custody for 5½ years , was yesterday granted a final appeal by the High Court against being sent to Hong Kong on fraud charges . |
| 54 | Bridges , held in custody for four months , said later : ‘ I 'm delighted . ’ |
| 55 | Martia was arrested for assault three months after this interview and was held in custody for several weeks until she was granted bail . |
| 56 | Similarly , in Moore v Central Electricity Generating Board , 1974 IRLR 296 — the facts of which may cause those interested in civil liberties some concern — an employee who had been held in custody for one month pending trial was dismissed after being convicted not of the original charge preferred but of related offences . |
| 57 | Judge Richard May ordered both to be held in custody for reports . |
| 58 | She ordered Cook to be held in custody for three weeks . |
| 59 | … Where there are not only the ingredients of an express or implied contract to waive privilege but also a fiduciary relation or other elements of public policy making recognition of privilege unconscionable , the waiver of privilege may be specifically enforced and the witness held in contempt for failure to make disclosure . |
| 60 | If the hon. Gentleman would do me the service of going to the Library and reading the judgments , he would find that in the earlier proceedings , neither the Home Office nor my hon. Friend were held in contempt for the actions that were taken on 1 and 2 May . |