Example sentences of "held [adj] [noun sg] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he invited me to a gypsy baptism which was to be held that night in the suburb of Vallecas . |
| 2 | It was held that property in the incomplete ship passed on payment of the first instalment but that no property passed at that time in some materials which were Lying in the ship yard and might be used in the ship 's construction . |
| 3 | In this business , as soon as one meal is complete there is a need to start on the next , and the ACC chefs of the battalion , lunch behind them , had now to prepare for the functions to be held that evening in the Officers ' , and Warrant Officers ' and Sergeants ' Messes for 180 and 350 people respectively . |
| 4 | She shuddered , completely at a loss to know what he meant , yet held helpless prisoner by the dark thrall of his warning . |
| 5 | Beneath the Castle Esplanade , where the famous Tattoo is held each year during the International Festival , there is a picturesque group of buildings which includes the house of Allan Ramsay , the eighteenth century poet . |
| 6 | I had someone come to see me the other week from the R S P C A because they said this cat was held forty foot in the air |
| 7 | Following the huge popularity of previous events , the fifth Mobility Roadshow will be held this year at the same venue on 21 to 23 June . |
| 8 | Then he began to recite a litany of the individual bones and of the past Commanders who had held this fortress-monastery for the Emperor . |
| 9 | The machines ' official debut will be held this week at the International Oracle Conference in San Francisco , followed by a showing at Unix Expo in New York later this month . |
| 10 | THE annual meeting of Hampton and District Royal British Legion Club is being held this evening at the New Inn , Hampton , starting 8pm . |
| 11 | He is the first Catholic to have held this office in the 103-year history of the county council . |
| 12 | Uncover mystery , magic , suspense and comedy in an exciting new exhibition to be held this summer in the Royal Museum of Scotland in Chambers Street . |
| 13 | Illus.1 conveys this well , not least by the way the baton is shown as held some way towards the middle . |
| 14 | But the similarity goes further : Miltiades had been a great figure in the early colonial days of Athens : his pocket principality in the Chersonese was in the van of Pisistratid expansion ( for good relations between the tyrants and Miltiades in the 520s see the archon-list ML 6 = Fornara 23 , belying Herodotus : Miltiades had held high office under the tyrants ) . |
| 15 | and I share some common history , for in our early adult life , both of us have held high office in the Anglican Church . |
| 16 | It must in the first place be said that women in the past were not for example doctors or politicians , so it is hardly surprising that they should not have held public office in the church . |
| 17 | He proved and illustrated from Bede that for the first hundred and forty years after its foundation as an archbishopric , Canterbury had held primatial authority over the whole country ; then he went on to prove , though more sketchily , that this state of affairs had lasted without intermission until the Norman Conquest . |
| 18 | All five were being held last night under the Prevention of Terrorism Act at top-security Paddington Green police station in London . |
| 19 | Three men held last weekend in the city were making a second appearance before magistrates in Middleton in Manchester today on charges involving procuring firearms . |
| 20 | have held lengthy dialogue with the commission , no formal clearance what so ever has even been given commission suggested and encouraged to notify , but they did not , they had the opportunity to do so , they declined it , one might say is a market of risk takers , this is a risk that they took . |
| 21 | It is composed of Law Lords , and others who hold or have held judicial office in the United Kingdom or the Commonwealth . |
| 22 | And he has made it clear that an all-German election should be held next year at the earliest , not as a quick substitute for the West German one in December . |
| 23 | For the community work I went to help with the Mothers and Toddlers group that was held next door to the school . |