Example sentences of "[modal v] [be] hold [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 16–11- That he would contribute £50 and proposed that services should be held at Keills and Ballygrant alternately at the usual hours of public worship on the Sabbath .
2 Gregory claims that it was the king who insisted that the consecration should be held at Metz , out of affection for the candidate , but this may be a euphemism for saying that consecration in Clermont was too dangerous .
3 A separate dimension of the social enterprise perspective is that if we view the company as a public or social body , albeit under private control , then its directors and managers should be held to requirements of disclosure and standards of ethical conduct appropriate to those carrying out public functions .
4 On Dec. 21 President Alia accepted that the poll should be held on March 1 , 1992 .
5 The County Court judge agreed with the trustee and ordered that the matrimonial home should be held on trust for the trustee in bankruptcy and Mrs Flint in equal shares .
6 Well we consider that er pensions er contributions are deferred pay , including the employers contributions erm that the fund should be held on trust by the trustees and that the employer should have no ownership in it whatsoever .
7 On March 3 the Federal Assembly presidium decided that the general election should be held on June 5-6 .
8 Attorney General Dick Thornburgh formally left the Cabinet on Aug. 9 , after a federal appeals court ruled on Aug. 6 that a special election should be held on Nov. 5 to fill the Senate seat of the late John Heinz — although Thornburgh had made known his intention to contest the vacant seat , his resignation from the government had been deferred pending a judicial examination of the constitutionality of Pennsylvania 's special election statute .
9 They announced that the dialogue should begin on June 8 and that elections for the new Congress should be held on Nov. 8 .
10 Havel urged that a referendum should be held by December 1991 , implying that he would resign if the issue remained unsolved .
11 Agreed that discussion be deferred to a later meeting , but the view was expressed that a register of RBGE EC research interests should be held by RMG through CW .
12 The balance of power should be held by cross-benchers .
13 The PPD and the DLP agreed that local assembly elections should be held by June 1991 , with elections for governors and mayors in early 1992 .
14 Because of the northern connection , it is entirely appropriate that the annual conference of the Consumer Credit Association of the UK — the largest trade association in this field — should be held in Chester .
15 It is also , in my view , perfectly reasonable to support the proposition that a referendum should be held in Scotland in order to determine what constitutional status people actually want .
16 A record of the companies who have been given this dispensation should be held in order that this may be checked by the auditors .
17 Owing to the continually rising cost of attending courses in Germany and Switzerland it is suggested that a summer course should be held in July or August 1982 , possibly at Green Park Training Centre , Aston Clinton , Buckinghamshire .
18 Whoever decided that Sound City '92 should be held in Norwich deserves a good pat on the back ( a knife would be better — IM ) for bringing decency and respect to the East of England .
19 The UDF proposed instead that by-elections should be held in May to fill the seats left vacant by the expulsion from the Assembly of the disgraced former BCP leader and head of state Todor Zhivkov and his closest associates , and to replace other deputies who were most discredited by their record under the Zhivkov regime .
20 It made clear that elections to a constitution-drafting constituent assembly should be held in mid-1993 or by the end of the year at the latest , and that it would not tolerate any party which lost this election " paralysing " the elected government .
21 ICF President Sergio Orsi has expressed a wish that the World Marathon Championships should be held in South Africa in the not- too-distant future , South Africa having been provisionally readmitted to the ICF subject to ratification at the ICF congress next summer .
22 PUBLIC inquiries should be held in places where the public has easy access , it was claimed yesterday .
23 PUBLIC inquiries should be held in places to which the public has easy access , it was claimed yesterday .
24 It was agreed at working-level talks in Panmunjom on Aug. 23 that the fourth round of the ongoing Premiers ' talks between North and South Korea should be held in Pyongyang on Oct. 22-25 .
25 The foster mothers and re-derived litter should be held in isolation until their health status has been shown to be satisfactory .
26 The meeting of 1950 agreed that future meetings should be held in Yorkshire , and the earlier amendment of 1920 allowing it to take place in Lancashire ( as there were so few archery clubs in the north ) be rescinded .
27 The family had not paid much attention to the terms of the eccentric patriarch 's last wishes , as the stipulation that all his possessions should be held in readiness for his return merely put the houses and their produce at the usual disposal of his family , while removing the problem of his personal presence and authority .
28 The probe of the thermostat , if any should be held in place with two airline sucker clips from Algarde , preferably siliconed in place to ensure that it ca n't slip free .
29 There was some friction in their relationship beneath the surface , since MacArthur wished to determine the nature of a peace treaty and for purposes of formal ratification of a treaty the circumstances in which a peace conference met ; it was his intention that a conference should be held in Tokyo under his own chairmanship .
30 The leaders of Kosovo Albanian political groupings on Aug. 14 rejected a proposal by Panic that talks should be held in Belgrade on the Kosovo question , insisting that any talks between Kosovo Albanians and Serbs should be held under international auspices at the forthcoming London Conference .
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