Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] be held " in BNC.
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| 1 | A memorial service for Beryl was held on 27th July at St. Marks Church , Hamilton Terrace NW8 . |
| 2 | Even more remarkably , two days later a requiem for Zita was held in St Matthew 's church in Budapest . |
| 3 | Whether in fact any such obligations have been created depends on the construction of the lease ; and there is nothing which requires the lease to be constructed in such a way as to avoid , if possible , the creation of such obligations ( Bradshaw v Pawley [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 10 , where liability for rent was held to be retrospective ) . |
| 4 | The overgrazing of livestock and cutting down of brush and trees for firewood are held responsible . |
| 5 | Meeting after meeting was held at which he found reasons for further delay . |
| 6 | Following a short hearing organised by the Commission at the end of January , a meeting of a committee of experts was held 10–18 February by the World Intellectual Property Organisation ( WIPO ) . |
| 7 | Absence of reference to certain objections in the statement of reasons was held to warrant the conclusion that the board had not exercised its discretion properly . |
| 8 | A glass of champagne was held before her , and , with a little shrug , she took it . |
| 9 | Therefore , PCNA may serve as a useful marker for proliferation if the conditions of fixation are held constant and the same antibody is used throughout the experiment . |
| 10 | In that case one clause which on its wording excluded liability if the buyers had not given notice of any defects within three days of purchase was held to fail the reasonableness test . |
| 11 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the average amount of money being held back by local education authorities in England and Wales , per pupil , under the system of local management of schools . |
| 12 | A meeting of ALADI was held on May 1-2 , 1990 , in Mexico City [ see p. 37502 ; see also pp. 37373 ; 37774 ] . |
| 13 | As part of the control of the transaction it is important that the majority of meetings are held at the firm 's own premises . |
| 14 | A number of meetings were held throughout April and May 1990 between Brooke and James Molyneaux , leader of the ( Official ) Ulster Unionist Party ( OUP ) , and the Rev. Ian Paisley , leader of the Democratic Unionist Party ( DUP ) , and between Brooke and Gerard Collins , the Irish Foreign Minister , as a prelude to the opening of talks on new arrangements for the exercising of political power within Northern Ireland . |
| 15 | A series of meetings was held in March , April and May 1990 with radical Palestinian groupings in what many observers saw as preparatory steps towards their unbanning . |
| 16 | I hope that I will have an opportunity to meet many students in the forthcoming series of meetings being held through the regional actuarial societies . |
| 17 | And if he landed in England with Matilda , estates such as Hugh de Tracy 's were at risk , placed as they were in Herefordshire and Gloucestershire , where the majority of castles were held by men who owed fealty to the Earl rather than the King . |
| 18 | In continuum mechanics two types of force are held to at on a body : surface tractions which act on the surface of the volume under consideration and body forces , which act throughout the volume and in the most common case are gravitational or inertial in origin . |
| 19 | There is a big case of investment being held up in Ahoghill , and it is also being held up in Carrickfergus , and other places , too . |
| 20 | This sub-set of entries is held in a smaller database known as the Working-Set . |
| 21 | The first World Congress of Tatars was held in Kazan ( Tatarstan ) on June 19-21 , attended by 1,200 delegates from Tatarstan and the Tatar diaspora . |
| 22 | Most types of glider should be showing a very small amount of rudder being held on into the turn . |
| 23 | Behind the twin towers of the New College of Divinity at the head of the Mound stands the Assembly Hall , where the annual ‘ parliament ’ of the Church of Scotland is held . |
| 24 | The rest of Spain was held by Muslims , wrongfully , as the Christians saw it ; the emperor of León laid claim to the rest of the peninsula . |
| 25 | On the assets side cash deposits with the Bank of England are held to fulfil the requirement that all banking sector institutions hold 0.45% of their eligible liabilities as non-operational deposits with the Bank of England . |
| 26 | The household of William the Conqueror was the nerve-centre from which his military victories were planned , from which his duchy and the kingdom of England were held in subordination ; its lay members held themselves always ready for battle . |
| 27 | But still , the great majority of posts are held by the sort of steady chaps who have always made up the Great and Good . |
| 28 | Thus in Couturier v. Hastie ( 1856 H.L. ) a contract to sell a cargo of corn was held to be void because , unknown to the seller , the ship 's master had already sold it in Tunisia , as it had begun to ferment en route . |
| 29 | The third congress of the Association of Private Peasant Farms and Agricultural Co-operatives of Russia was held in Moscow on Feb. 3-5 . |
| 30 | The year 's largest group of primaries was held on Sept. 11 , with elections in 10 states , and also in the District of Columbia , where disgraced mayor Marion Barry was not seeking re-election after his conviction on a drug charge [ see p. 37647 ] . |