Example sentences of "were hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three such meetings were held during the course of 1960 . |
| 2 | A number of short seminars were held during the year and these were well supported . |
| 3 | Throughout 1992 meetings were held across the country for representatives of industry and colleges to discuss the implications of the new framework . |
| 4 | Blake also took part in the joint planning meetings that were held between the CIA and MI6 during one of which , in December 1953 , the Berlin tunnel operation was approved . |
| 5 | Frantic consultations were held between the few surviving princes , the Chief Priest of the Shrine of Asuryan and the Captain of the Phoenix Guard . |
| 6 | At the end of August talks were held between the Chief Minister P. K. Mahanta , the All Bodo Students Union ( ABSU ) and the central government observer and then Minister of State for Welfare , Rajendra Kumari Bajpai . |
| 7 | Bilateral meetings were held between the Prime Ministers of Greece and Turkey [ see p. 38786 ] , and of India and Pakistan , while African National Congress president Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk also addressed the gathering . |
| 8 | The wedding receptions were held at the Crown Hotel in Varteg , Gwent , and Talywaun Rugby Club , Gwent . |
| 9 | This is a collection of strange bedfellows , but is an interesting reflection of the high esteem in which artists were held at the time . |
| 10 | Potter 's bid for martyrdom came at twenty-five-foot Waimea in the winter of '86‐7 when the early rounds of the Billabong Pro were held at the Bay . |
| 11 | PARISHIONERS and clergy looked back at the past year on Sunday when Headley 's annual vestry and parish meetings were held at the Church Centre . |
| 12 | The finals were held at the Forth Road Bridge Car Park on Sunday 27 June 1993 . |
| 13 | The talks were held at the CPF site and included issues which were set forth in four documents , all of them unanimously approved by community representatives and by BPXC . |
| 14 | The first formal talks between the USA and Vietnam on Cambodia were held at the UN on Aug. 6 , leading to a great deal of speculation about the lifting of the US-led trade embargo on Vietnam and eventual normalization of US-Vietnamese relations . |
| 15 | Co-incidentally these were held at the Birmingham Indoor Arena , the set of the TV programme ‘ The Gladiators ’ . |
| 16 | Informal talks were held with the Social Democrats in June 1989 with the 1990 elections in mind , a recognition in itself that the Green pragmatists were in the ascendant and the Marxist regionalists on the wane . |
| 17 | During the week after their arrival , meetings were held with the State Senator , the Mayor of Penghu County , teachers , businessmen , students , and Buddhist priests . |
| 18 | A series of regional seminars were held with the consortia identified by the School Management Task Force . |
| 19 | UPH 's first interest in the site concerned the possibility of putting 155 residences there , and discussions were held with the Corpo 's planning department on this proposal . |
| 20 | Meetings were held with the nursing officer and health visitor line management . |
| 21 | Foreign ministers ' talks were held with the Russians in Berlin in early 1954 , but progress on a German peace treaty again proved impossible . |
| 22 | In early January 1990 meetings were held with the Foreign Ministers of Nepal and Sri Lanka , with the King of Bhutan and with Pakistani envoys [ see pp. 37184-85 ; 37356 ; 37357 ; 37183-84 ] . |
| 23 | Discussions were held with the government of Iran in May on the strengthening of bilateral ties . |
| 24 | Elections were held to the state parliaments in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony on May 13 , involving 19,000,000 voters or two-fifths of the West German electorate . |
| 25 | Elections were held to the DPR in April 1987 [ see p. 35326 ] . |
| 26 | In 799 the Franks took the Balearic Islands , which faced repeated attacks from Saracen fleets , but were held under the government of the Counts of Genoa and Tuscany . |
| 27 | The talks were held under the auspices of the National Unification Commission , a body which had been established by presidential proclamation in early August in order to promote the new government 's policy of encouraging all insurgents to renounce armed struggle in return for an amnesty . |
| 28 | Praetextatus of Rouen was tried at Paris in 577 , and Gregory himself at a gathering of bishops at the royal palace of Berny-Rivière in 580 : both these last trials were held under the aegis of Chilperic I. A year later the flight of Mummolus was discussed at Lyons . |
| 29 | The talks were held under the auspices of the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) , which says that most of the well-known marine fish stocks are being exploited at or far beyond the limits of sustainability , largely because of the development of deep-sea fleets working far from home . |
| 30 | Between the 14th day of September 1987 and the 8th day of January 1988 conspired together and with other persons to defraud such persons who had or might have had an interest in dealing in shares in Blue Arrow , or National Westminster Bank , or in dealing on the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index , namely : 2.1 By dishonestly concealing holdings of 19.39 per cent of the share capital of Blue Arrow ; 2.2 By falsely stating that all remaining shares not taken up in the rights issue by existing shareholders had been sold in the market ; 2.3 By falsely representing that 33,315,528 shares in Blue Arrow held by County NatWest Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.4 By falsely representing that 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.5 By dealing off market with Union Bank of Switzerland in 28,201,743 shares in Blue Arrow when by reason of their connection with that company they were knowingly in possession of un-published price sensitive information ; 2.6 By creating a false instrument , namely a letter of indemnity dated 5 October 1987 from Nicholas Wells on behalf of County NatWest to Union Bank Of Switzerland ; 2.7 By engaging in a course of conduct which created a false or misleading impression as to the market in the shares of Blue Arrow for the purpose of creating such an impression and thereby influencing persons who might deal in those shares ; 2.8 By purchasing and retaining 2,150 Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index put option contracts to cover a risk of £51,500,000 whilst concealing from the market the true position in relation to the rights issue and the subsequent placing of shares in Blue Arrow , where Blue Arrow and National Westminster Bank were both component parts of that index . |