Example sentences of "been hold [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This publication stems from one of the five seminars that have been held regularly since early 1979 in Edinburgh , convened by Dr Anthony Jackson . |
| 2 | Since operations commenced the service level has remained high , depot working stock has reduced and costs have been held well below budget . |
| 3 | Rallies had been held repeatedly since March 26 in Dushanbe , the capital , organized by the opposition parties calling for the resignation of the Supreme Soviet Chair , Sarafali Kenjayev . |
| 4 | She has not been held away from home for long . ’ |
| 5 | Suppose the smooth ball of bone had been held away from its snug socket just too long to glide easily back into place . |
| 6 | It 's part of the biggest event of it 's kind to be staged in Britain , and it 's been held especially for handicapped and underprivileged youngsters . |
| 7 | The elections had been held early as a result of a crisis which had arisen following a scandal over school catering , leading in July to the resignation of the DC mayor , Pietro Giubilo . |
| 8 | The Scottish women 's teams have been held annually on the last weekend in February since before the war , but some five years ago the male members of the SBU council decided this was unfair and established the national men 's teams held in Perth on Sunday . |
| 9 | The first ‘ official ’ race was held in 1972 and it has been held annually on the first or second Wednesday in May ever since . |
| 10 | Again and again , people told me in Prague earlier this month how the Forum had been held together at difficult moments by his irrestistible decency and gentle authority . |
| 11 | All this time , the wings have been held together like the leaves of a book . |
| 12 | Even their reports , which before the war would have been held together by close logic and the normal sense of what was being said , are now things of numbered paragraphs ( the British Library report cited earlier has sections with triple numbers , such as 9.6.1. and even the conclusions of chapters have introductions ) with no style or overall understanding at all . |
| 13 | The youth market , which had been held together in a fragile unity , fragmented : on the one hand into Teenybop , on the other into the Underground . |
| 14 | When pursued , they shoot out of the water and spread greatly elongated , broad pectorals which until now have been held close to the body . |
| 15 | The concluding rounds of the peace negotiations , which had been held sporadically over the past 20 months , began under UN auspices in Mexico on Nov. 25 following the declaration of a unilateral FMLN ceasefire on Nov. 16 and recommenced in New York on Dec. 16 ; Pérez de Cuéllar , whose term of office expired only a few minutes after the signature of the agreement , had made the issue of peace in El Salvador a personal crusade . |
| 16 | Markets had been held there from time immemorial , almost certainly from long before a royal grant was obtained in 1245 for an annual four-day fair . |
| 17 | But given the fact that the first GCSE examinations will have been held only in 1988 , and that it would therefore be unrealistic to recommend their Instant abandonment . |
| 18 | Lt.-Col. Augustin Ndindiliyimana , hitherto Minister for Transport and Communications , was appointed to the new post of Minister in the Presidency responsible for Defence ( the Defence portfolio had been held hitherto by Habyarimana ) . |