Example sentences of "held [adj] [noun pl] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brayne also held idiosyncratic views on the hereafter . |
| 2 | Some Ministers felt that this was wholly a matter for the conscience or judgment of the individual , and that Ministers who held strong views on the moral issue should not be asked to subordinate those views to a collective decision of the Cabinet . |
| 3 | Another recorded that some held high positions in the Ministry of War : their arrest , the report added , would be ‘ a political embarrassment ’ . |
| 4 | But it is not so generally known and acknowledged that some of them in their day held high positions in the scientific world , nor has sufficient commendation been bestowed upon the whole body for their unselfish zeal in the promotion and encouragement of the study of Natural History , and especially Botany , as an essential element of medical education . |
| 5 | While in Moscow Bush also addressed a meeting of the Moscow State Institute for International Relations and held separate talks with the President of the Russian Federation , Boris Yeltsin and the Kazakh President , Nursultan Nazarbayev . |
| 6 | Although the King did not attend the conference , he held separate meetings with the two Palestinian leaders [ see below for earlier meetings between Palestinian and Hussein ] . |
| 7 | This threat held serious consequences for the government of Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa , as support from the Takeshita faction had been an essential ingredient in his election to the leadership of the party , and was generally seen as essential to his continued survival in the post . |
| 8 | Mr Walsh has led the Getty Museum since 1983 , before which time he held curatorial posts at the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston , and at the Metropolitan in New York . |
| 9 | The squirrel held little bits of the plastic and ran quickly up the wall . |
| 10 | Shevardnadze met the West German Foreign Minister , Hans-Dietrich Genscher , in the Soviet town of Brest on June 11 , when the two sides held closed talks on the unification issue . |
| 11 | I held useful talks with the three Presidents Nazarbaev , Kravchuk and Yeltsin as well as with Ministers of their Governments . |
| 12 | Pre-war records show that this little lake held good stocks of the rare arctic char ( a fish of the salmon family ) and brown trout . |
| 13 | But in private the department held deep reservations about the benefits of fresh legislation and about its purity protagonists . |
| 14 | To Parker , who , it was rumoured , held major shares in the firm . |
| 15 | On May 4 monetary officials from Japan , Australia , Hong Kong and Singapore held informal talks on the sidelines of the ADB meeting in Hong Kong . |
| 16 | Meanwhile the king held informal discussions with the multitude . |
| 17 | Two of the members , trumpeter Bryan Allen and horn player Stephen Roberts graduated from the University Music Department in 1980 , Stephen Roberts having previously studied at the Royal College of Music and held orchestral positions with the BBC . |
| 18 | She was also aware that MI5 and Scotland Yard held fat files on the ‘ close friends ’ of her children and their spouses , including tape recordings of incriminating telephone conversations dating back at least to Princess Anne 's affair with a royal detective . |
| 19 | Delegations from Israel , Syria and Lebanon , and a joint Jordanian-Palestinian delegation , met around a single conference table in the Royal Palace , Madrid , on Oct. 30 , 31 and Nov. 1 , and held bilateral talks in the Palacio de Parcente on Nov. 3 . |
| 20 | He held various positions at the Ordnance Office between 1696 and 1708 . |
| 21 | Although Yeltsin dismissed the idea of substantial personnel changes , he said that he held common views with the industrial managers in Civic Union on economic policy . |
| 22 | Ostwald in Germany and Bancroft in the United States , who held dominant positions in the world of physical chemistry , especially as editors of the principal journals , were influential in promoting such ideas . |
| 23 | The Professional Services Board held lengthy discussions on the first draft of the Report by the Curriculum Development Group on the CIOB New Education Framework at its May meeting . |
| 24 | Before the law was introduced in the Greek parliament , there was an extremely long procedure during which the minister of education visited each Greek campus and held lengthy discussions with the universities ' senates on the basis of written replies to a questionnaire distributed by the ministry to each member of the university community in Greece . |
| 25 | However , many American citizens were of Irish descent and held bitter opinions of the English . |
| 26 | were best achieved by organisations that held secure positions inside the enterprise , and unlike their European counterparts the unions in North America insisted on establishing their presence in the plant itself and not merely outside it . |
| 27 | He held senior commands throughout the first Dutch war . |