Example sentences of "and [noun] be held " in BNC.

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1 In contrast to this , extrinsic factors like food supply and predation are held by other workers to control the population cycles .
2 Courses , seminars and discussions are held at intervals within an individual college or within a broader catchment in order to improve college teaching .
3 UPH 's first interest in the site concerned the possibility of putting 155 residences there , and discussions were held with the Corpo 's planning department on this proposal .
4 Diplomatic relations were established with all six countries , and discussions were held on the means of future co-operation .
5 A hall in the Andersonian University was procured , and meetings were held there for a number of years , with periods spent in Balfour 's School , North Portland Street ( 1848–1850 ) , the Young Men 's Christian Association , North Frederick Street ( 1857–8 ) .
6 Committee members were elected annually and meetings were held monthly .
7 This directory is very voluminous and copies are held by Legal Aid Committees in Glasgow , Dundee and Aberdeen .
8 One of his two sixes off left-arm spinner henry went out of the ground , and play was held up while police vainly chased a thief who made off with the ball .
9 It is usually assumed that teachers and heads are held to account but whether they are accountable to resource providers ( ratepayers , taxpayers , policy makers , administrators ) , customers ( pupils , parents , employers ) , or their professional colleagues , is ill-defined .
10 A meeting of 120 " anti-imperialist " representatives of Arab political parties and organizations was held in Amman on Sept. 15-17 .
11 Regular training days and rallies are held with colleagues from Weston-Super-Mare and Bristol , the last of which was in April at Saltford Hall , Bristol , when Moyra Hopley and Rosemary Gould put everyone through their paces .
12 After the trial Orchin , Richmond and McCready were held in prison for about a month on the charge relating to the unlicensed pistol .
13 Body and neck are held together by four screws through a neckplate , and I 'd suggest it might be worth Vox looking at using one of these screws to hold the strap button , which at the moment is screwed to the body about half way along the top of the plate .
14 Alexander believed that the way our head and neck are held affects the hold body .
15 PowerSystem 's multilanguage and multicurrency features are increasingly important to Nabb , as Mr Westbrook explains : ‘ All of the invoices etc are issued from the UK , but all of the customers ’ names and addresses are held in the language they would recognise .
16 To illustrate the combination of speculative and portfolio adjustment effects that are embodied in relative returns it is useful to analyse the changes that would arise if wealth and turnover are held constant and investors expect a rise of 1% in the relative return on UK investments in both the current and following quarters due to an expected exchange rate appreciation .
17 Possible early human ancestors existed in Pakistan two million years ago , while the much earlier Sivapithecus from India and Pakistan is held by some to be ancestral to all the great apes including man , or perhaps just orang-utans and man .
18 In the Autumn of 1992 a 5 day course in leadership and team-building was held at Outward Bound , Ullswater .
19 The second conference on peaceful reunification and relations between China and Taiwan was held in Hong Kong on July 8-10 .
20 Virtually all financial assets and savings are held in banks , or kept in cash in the form of dinar or foreign currency notes .
21 The antique fountain-pen market is in its early stages , with the first International Pen Show and Auction being held in Geneva , November 1–3 .
22 Deprived of nutrition , the invading bacteria and viruses are held in check while the body gathers more selective weapons for their ultimate destruction .
23 However , this conflict between preparation for an invasion and the immediate raiding of the enemy coasts was never clearly resolved ; and a force of Royal Marines and Commandos was held on the Clyde forever preparing for landings against the possible need to capture an Atlantic island base should Gibraltar fall .
24 ‘ NADIRPUR — YOUR WIFE AND CHILD IS HELD IN THE NAME OF ISLAM .
25 Bosnia claims that 120,000 Moslems and Croats are held in more than 100 Serb camps and that 17,000 have been killed .
26 Bishops , priests , and deacons were held in scorn by them ; but they allowed positions of leadership and liturgical presidency to women , as orthodox communities did not .
27 In 1987 we were invited to perform at the Royal Albert Hall in the ‘ Celebrating Age ’ programme , and auditions were held to form a 55+ Team under the direction of Jean Parmiter .
28 Extra police were called in , and Jane was held responsible for everything .
29 A meeting of publishers and booksellers was held during the Brussels book fair .
30 This year on Trinity Sunday , a candle-lighting ceremony with music , poetry , banners and balloons was held on the steps of St Martin's-in-the-fields church to mark AI 's anniversary .
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