Example sentences of "held [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A relatively low balance of cash can be held as the day-to-day operations of a bank 's customers — cash deposits and withdrawals — create an offsetting phenomenon . |
| 2 | The decline of the West Indian sugar economy , and the near-complete ability of the US cotton economy to supply its own black labour through the reproduction of its gender-balanced slave population , lessened the vested interest which might otherwise have held off the evangelical/humanitarian reformers rather longer . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | As he was held between the conflicting pressures of wind and water , so he was caught between the desire to reach Mariana and offer her comfort and the need to husband his remaining strength — but he knew that the husbanding of his strength was paramount if they were to survive . |
| 5 | Entry for both races is limited and late applications will only be able to take part in fun runs held after the main events . |
| 6 | Roh stressed the importance of choosing the DLP 's presidential candidate through the democratic process of a party convention , to be held after the legislative elections . |
| 7 | Emotions between the infantry and gunners resembled those sometimes held towards the heavy-bomber crews of World War II , whom the ground troops viewed as sumptuously quartered well away from the enemy , making brief sorties to spray their bombs indiscriminately over both lines . |
| 8 | Lithuania 's Supreme Council ( parliament ) on June 29 voted to suspend for 100 days its March 11 declaration of independence in order for negotiations to be held with the Soviet authorities on Lithuania 's future status . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ] . |
| 11 | A COUPLE held under the Official Secrets Act were still being quizzed by Special Branch detectives last night . |
| 12 | It had earlier been expected that the UN referendum there would be held before the Moroccan elections . |
| 13 | As you are aware the Lothian finals of the national Young Consumers of the Year Competition were held in the Regional Chambers on 10th March 1993 . |
| 14 | By this time , therefore , the Forest Eyre was found to be a cumbersome and ineffectual engine , and was allowed to fall into desuetude : only two short eyres were held in the southern forests during the remainder of the century — in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire in 1348 , and in Hampshire and Wiltshire in 1355 . |
| 15 | To mark the occasion a declaration of intent ceremony was held in the Central Gardens on Wednesday , watched by crowds of local people . |
| 16 | Held in the rear stalls at 6.15pm before any performance , these 20-minute chats about the music and the productions by members of the Company and other opera specialists will make your evenings at the Grand extra special — and still have time for that pre-performance drink . |
| 17 | Lady Gibson fund This fund , held in the joint names of the minister and session clerk of the Church and the chairman of the village association , the interest from which will be used to defray the expenses of a Christmas Treat for the senior citizens in the village . |
| 18 | Lady Gibson fund This fund , held in the joint names of the minister and session clerk of the Church and the chairman of the village association , the interest from which will be used to defray the expenses of a Christmas Treat for the senior citizens in the village . |
| 19 | This chapter deals with the situation where the matrimonial home is held in the joint names of the husband and the wife , either as beneficial joint tenants or as tenants in common . |
| 20 | Whether the matrimonial home is held in the joint names of the husband and wife on trust for sale or is in the name of the husband alone , it is not unusual for the court to order that the house be retained but upon certain terms and conditions . |
| 21 | Yes the briefing was held in the early hours of Monday morning . |
| 22 | In Sewell 's time the course of instruction , lasting generally for two sessions of nine months each , was given in the cooler months of the year , the brief viva voce examinations qualifying for entry to the Royal College 's diploma examinations being held in the unsuitable surroundings of the Freemasons ' tavern . |
| 23 | Andersen will issue and sell new shares , while Graseby will also sell some of the equity held in the Specac firms . |
| 24 | Later in the thirteenth century a Michaelmas Fair was held in the eastern suburbs , a source of perpetual disagreement about jurisdiction and tolls . |
| 25 | More intimate and relaxed than synagogue services — whoever felt inclined could take it on himself to lead the responses — these minyanim were held in the front rooms of the tiny houses and anyone passing along the street at the time would be assailed by a chorus of incantations like the sound of bees swarming in a hive . |
| 26 | PRI victories in the gubernatorial elections held in the northern states of Tamaulipas and Sinaloa and the central state of Puebla were fiercely disputed . |
| 27 | Would those convicted have to be held in the national prisons of UN members ? |
| 28 | Betty was approached by the vicar 's wife at Hurley to start a class in 1966 , which because of her local influence , was held in the beautiful surroundings of Bisham Abbey . |
| 29 | Local elections were held in the Czech Lands on Nov. 24 and in Slovakia on Nov. 23-25 . |
| 30 | Topics are likely to be examined only from the viewpoints held within the individual disciplines . |