Example sentences of "referendum [prep] [be] hold [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Facing the imminent rejection of the treaty , Aquino , who felt confident that " a great majority of our people want this treaty ratified " , called on Sept. 15 for a referendum to be held between December 1991 and March 1992 .
2 DENMARK 'S Socialist People 's Party , which led the successful ‘ no ’ campaign against the Maastricht treaty last June , decided yesterday to endorse the pact in a new referendum to be held on May 18 .
3 At a dinner hosted by King Juan Carlos , King Hassan avoided mention of Morocco 's claim to the Spanish-administered North African enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla , but King Juan Carlos repeated his call for a referendum to be held in Western Sahara ( Spain 's former colony ) to allow the people to decide their own future .
4 At a further ministerial meeting in August and after a heads of government meeting in Grenada in September , the four Windward islands agreed to create a regional constituent assembly to discuss unity plans and to prepare for a referendum to be held in mid-1991 .
5 In November it was agreed that a Constituent Assembly should be created to draw up a schedule of meetings to be held on each of the four Windward Islands in 1991 and to decide on the form of the proposed referendum to be held in each state .
6 Despite the positive Commons vote , Major announced on Nov. 5 that completion of the ratification process would be delayed until after a second Danish referendum to be held in May 1993 .
7 Iraqi Turkoman groups meeting in Istanbul on Nov. 9 called for a " unitary Iraqi state " but indicated that " if , in a free referendum to be held in Iraq under the supervision of neighbouring countries , including Turkey " , it was agreed to opt for a solution " based on ethnic structure " , Iraqi Turkomans would " exercise their right of self-determination within this structure " .
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