Example sentences of "be held [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the end of the 28 days any member or auditor may serve notice on the company requiring a meeting to be held for that purpose . |
| 2 | For the Phase 2 Pilot Programme a joint validation event will be held for such consortium developments . |
| 3 | It would clearly be impracticable for all of a party 's members to foregather from every corner of a region to select and rank its list candidates , so it is sometimes suggested that American style primaries should be held for this purpose . |
| 4 | Once major strategies have been set , they are likely to be held for some time . |
| 5 | No brief can be held for any solution that would put France and Western democracy influence out of Indo-China or leave natives believe US indifferent . |
| 6 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 7 | It was announced last night that urgent talks are to be held with public health officials after a survey by the Institution of Environmental Health Officers showed 2,858 out of 5,622 restaurants , pubs , and other outlets investigated were using microwave ovens designed for home kitchens . |
| 8 | The meeting expressed the hope that a women 's meeting would be held during each Congress and that more women should be trained to work with the deaf . |
| 9 | An exhibition of Henry 's work will be held at New College as a memorial to a brillient student claimed by LSD . |
| 10 | A CRICKET forum to discuss Durham 's entry into the first-class game will be held at New College Durham , Framwellgate Moor , on March 26 ( 7pm ) . |
| 11 | In Britain elections to the House of Commons , from which the government is formed , must be held at least every five years ( until Parliament says otherwise ) but may be held at any time during the five years , for example there were only eight months between elections in 1974 and the average length of a parliament is around four years . |
| 12 | A plebiscite to resolve the matter was to be held at some future , unspecified , date . |
| 13 | Last year the Group cut its dividend for the first time since it became a quoted company in 1970 , but this year analysts expect the dividend to be held at last year 's figure , with Pilkington digging into reserves in order to fend off the resulting loss of confidence . |
| 14 | The Annual General Meeting of Enterprise Oil plc will be held at 12 noon at The Glaziers Hall , 9 Montague Close , London SE1 on Thursday 17th May , 1990 . |
| 15 | Municipal and communal elections also due on May 6 would still be held on that date . |
| 16 | … Consultations will be held on this subject between the competent representative authorities of the two zones from 20 July 1955 onwards . ’ |
| 17 | In these circumstances we accept that it is reasonable that some trustees may feel that in the new situation produced by the tax the right course would be for the settled property to cease to be held on discretionary trust . |
| 18 | Briefly , the facts in Vestey were that in 1942 the heads of two Vestey families conveyed certain properties to non-resident trustees to be held on discretionary trust for the benefit of the settlors ' descendants . |
| 19 | The information needed , or produced , by each activity was also known , and could form the basis of the records to be held on any computer system . |
| 20 | It was 1968 and the Crystal Palace track had been converted to Tartan in readiness for the Mexico City Olympic Games which were to be held on synthetic surfacing for the first time . |
| 21 | Mainframe and minicomputers have data storage facilities which are remote from the majority of suppliers and users of the data They can be stored on magnetic material , often in the form of tape ( much as music can be held on magnetic tape ) These tapes are held centrally and are frequently accessible to many users . |
| 22 | Even if I thought strict liability for accidents wrong in principle , I would prefer that manufacturers of both washing machines and automobiles be held to that standard than that only one of them be . |
| 23 | Parents should be held to some degree , not necessarily to a tune of a thousand pound , but they should be made in some way , to be responsible for their |
| 24 | Such a cabinet may contain a battery of fluorescent tubes , and samples should be held about one foot away from it . |
| 25 | Unless we hear from you to the contrary within the next days , you will be held as admitting liability ’ . |
| 26 | The Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act laid down that a person arrested on suspicion could be held without further formality for up to twenty-one days . |
| 27 | A Local Council of the Russian Orthodox Church ( only the fourth such gathering to be held under Soviet rule ) on June 7 elected Metropolitan Aleksei of Leningrad and Novgorod as its Patriarch , in succession to Patriarch Pimen , who had died in May . |
| 28 | He suggested that elections to the constituent commission be brought forward to March or April and be held under international supervision . |
| 29 | As amended the Constitution stated : " Elections will be held under public control and administered by democratically elected electoral commissions … |
| 30 | An exhibition will be held alongside this conference on pharmaceutical ingredients and intermediates , which will be held in Wiesbaden , Germany on 18–20 November , 1992 . |