Example sentences of "[was/were] [prep] be held " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In 1980 , local elections were to be held , implementing the ‘ Gengshen Reforms ’ , which allowed for a small but significant element of democratisation at the local level . |
| 3 | judges were to be irremovable , trials were to be held in public , juries were to adjudicate serious criminal cases , and elected justices of the peace were to hear minor criminal and civil cases . |
| 4 | In May 1412 a treaty ( that of Bourges ) was sealed between Henry IV and the dukes of Berry , Bourbon , and Orléans which gave the English king much of what his predecessors had spent years fighting for : a recognition that Aquitaine was rightfully English , and an undertaking to help the king defend it ; the cession of twenty important towns and castles ; and agreement that certain lands , notably Poitou , were to be held by them of the English crown , and would revert to it when the present holders died . |
| 5 | It could be believed that God , whatever was understood by God , was equally close to all times and places ; that no particular period , and no particular events , were to be held to be more revelatory of God than others . |
| 6 | If it were to be held that judicial review for error of law lay against the visitor I fear that , as in the present case , finality would be lost not only in cases raising pure questions of law but also in cases where it would be urged in accordance with the Wednesbury principle ( Associated Provincial Picture Houses Ltd. v. Wednesbury Corporation [ 1948 ] 1 K.B . |
| 7 | No services were to be held in the church or chapels on certain forbidden former holy days ; nor was any concourse of idle people to attend church on those days , which included All Souls ( nor the evening or night before ) and those of Saints Catherine , Nicholas , George , Lawrence , Ann , and so on , including Thomas-a-Beckett , Mary Magdalene , the Conception , the Assumption , Wednesdays during the Easter or Whitsuntide weeks all being forbidden by law to be kept as holidays . |
| 8 | The report stated that another 40 results were outstanding and that repeat elections were to be held in 20 constituencies where candidates had failed to receive the minimum number of votes . |
| 9 | Elections for the governorships of Catamarca province and the territory of Tierra del Fuego were to be held on Dec. 1 . |
| 10 | On May 14 , police arrested more than 1,000 Pakistan People 's Party ( PPP ) supporters in Sind , following an announcement by PPP leader Benazir Bhutto that protest rallies were to be held the following day over alleged ballot-rigging in earlier local elections . |
| 11 | Presidential elections were to be held on June 21 with candidates nominated by the Majlis . |
| 12 | He promised that China would continue to strengthen bilateral co-operation with the UK on the basis of the Joint Declaration and the Memorandum of Understanding concerning the construction and financing of a new airport in Hong Kong , a highly sensitive issue [ see p. 38340 ] , on which more bilateral discussions were to be held in July . |
| 13 | By-elections were to be held on Aug. 9 in Hoa Binh and Thanh Hoa provinces for three undecided seats . |
| 14 | The elections were to be held in accordance with the 1989 Taif accord [ see p. 36986 ] , although the new electoral law approved on July 16 increased the number of deputies to be elected to 128 rather than the 108 laid down in the Taif accords [ see also amendment of election law pp. 38214 ; 38311 ] . |
| 15 | Elections to the Chamber of Districts and local elections were to be held by Feb. 7 , 1993 . |
| 16 | All three were fined a total equivalent to US$25,000 million in compensation damages to the state and were to be held in solitary confinement at the naval base on San Lorenzo , an island off the port of Callao near the capital , Lima , where they had been tried . |
| 17 | The bishops were to look for exactly these deficiencies ; synods were to be held ; the clergy were to be better educated , responsible and not ignorant . |
| 18 | General elections were to be held in October and were to be accompanied by a two-part referendum . |
| 19 | Linda , a very proficient pilot herself , was preparing to enter the Women 's Aerobatic Competition in the Solution when the National Championships were to be held in the USA later this month . |
| 20 | Yonhap quoted an official as saying North Korea had accepted a US proposal to meet again in Beijing , possibly as early as next week , and a senior Seoul government source told Reuters the talks were to be held after after a current US-South Korean military exercise , Team Spirit , ended . |
| 21 | It was agreed that elections would be held in Zimbabwe , despite the activities of various black guerrilla forces led by Joshua Nkomo and Robert Mugabe , and a constitutional convention was to be held in London . |
| 22 | When Dixie Dean was on holiday in Ayr , he noticed that a professional sprint was to be held and entered it as an outsider and won ; he thereby not only demonstrated the outstanding athletic abilities of top footballers ( Matthews was also a fine athlete ) , but underlined the survival of the old pedestrian traditions at the new resorts catering for working-class holiday-makers . |
| 23 | 13 Platoon had subsequently been tasked with providing the security for the funeral , which was to be held in a small village near Strabane . |
| 24 | ‘ Here ’ was the Buda , the restaurant where the great party was to be held , a long , low building , part of it pre-war , and with its outside liberally plastered with posters of a vastly hairy Karl Marx . |
| 25 | However , later David did come and see me to ask if his group could play on the school steps at the PTA fête which was to be held in the summer , so I suppose that was one of his first public engagements with his group . |
| 26 | My impression was that since it was to be held in London , Angela was doing the work , with a good deal of help from colleagues at Yeo Davis . |
| 27 | The sale was to be held in a large country house some eight miles away . |
| 28 | The order of events was the same each year : first , the bus or train ride to whatever town The Walk was to be held in ; then being stationed somewhere from which I could see the parade . |
| 29 | The wardenship was to be held by him , his wife , and his heirs by her , of the king and his heirs for ever : Brewer handed it over to him at Midsummer 1204 . |
| 30 | This all-time low was worsened by news of Lance Henly 's death but the much-loved man had bequeathed his gold watch to the Club which was to be held by the winner of the Lovell Bowl . |