Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A meeting on book provision in schools has been held with Baroness Blatch , Minister of State . |
| 2 | I remembered reading about the protests over Club Row just north of Spitalfields ' market , where a street market in animals had been held since Victorian times . |
| 3 | This diversity and range was nowhere better demonstrated than in our six prestigious national lectures : The first of these lectures having been held in Sheffield , this second was held in Tynemouth and Bill Oakes , Chairman , Northern Section , and his committee are to be congratulated on the 200-plus members and guests that came to hear what Alan had to say . |
| 4 | Talks between the ISA , IWSRA and the Provincial associations have been held in a bid to formulate a new constitution together with a set of policies and financial implications for the new body which will be known as Irish Squash . |
| 5 | The elections were deemed by foreign observers to have been held without widescale irregularities , although cases were reported in a few localities . |
| 6 | As many as 5,000 Palestinians had been held in Syrian prisons since 1983 , when relations between Arafat and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad had deteriorated into open hostility [ see pp. 32457-59 ; 32649-51 ] . |
| 7 | ( Similar , more strongly supported protests had been held on Oct. 23 and Nov. 30 , 1990 . ) |
| 8 | The funerals have been held for those who died in the bombing on Belfast 's Shankhill Road . |
| 9 | ANNIVERSARY celebrations have been held at a number of branches in recent weeks but the biggest birthday of them all — 160 years — was at Hawick . |
| 10 | Only two of the three previous 12 finals have been held outside Europe , both on the east coast of the United States , and the Del Mar organisers are trying to expunge these memories from the minds of the European riders . |
| 11 | Anti-Western protests have been held in Iraq as the Allies threaten further bombings . |
| 12 | Responsibility for Foreign Affairs had been held by Mitsotakis himself since April , when he dismissed Antonis Samaras [ see p. 38873 ] . |
| 13 | The hearing revealed that undertrials had been held in Bihar gaols for up to ten years , in some cases spending years longer on remand than the maximum possible sentence . |
| 14 | Successful garden festivals have been held in Liverpool ( 1984 ) , Stoke ( 1986 ) and Glasgow ( 1988 ) . |
| 15 | Previous festivals have been held in Stirling , Dingwall , Edinburgh and the Borders . |
| 16 | It 's the first time the disabled driving championships have been held at Gatcombe and the prestigious venue attracted a good entry of competitors determined to master the challenging course . |
| 17 | Tamaki had been held until December by Sir Robert Muldoon , the former National Party leader and Prime Minister in 1975-84 . |
| 18 | After all , during the First World War prices had been held to a twofold increase : the inflationary explosion had occurred immediately after the war . |
| 19 | The first European Indoor Games had been held in Dortmund twenty years earlier and |
| 20 | Demonstrations have been held at the primate centre run by the University of California-Davis . |
| 21 | During the past two weeks , demonstrations have been held in all the major cities with timeless regularity , resulting sometimes in several casualties when police reacted with brutal violence to defend American interests and estates in the country . |
| 22 | During the past two weeks , demonstrations have been held in all the major cities with timeless regularity . |
| 23 | Meetings for our members have been held on both of these issues , and in response to the scrutiny review , we circulated our membership with our detailed submission to the government to inform their own responses . |
| 24 | Major debates have been held since the late 1970s over the future of wetlands in Sussex , Somerset , Yorkshire , and East Anglia . |
| 25 | All of the Forum 's 15 member states were represented , although the uncertain political situation in Papua New Guinea ( elections having been held in June — see p. 38965 ) , meant that the country was represented by the Labour and Employment Minister , Arnold Marsipal . |
| 26 | Local elections had been held on Oct. 16 [ see pp. 39168-69 ] . |
| 27 | The new parliament would have 240 seats instead of the 400 in the outgoing Grand National Assembly , to which Bulgaria 's first free elections had been held in June 1990 [ see pp. 37543-44 ] , and in which the BSP had held 211 seats to the UDF 's 144 ; BSP and UDF deputies had formed a coalition government in December 1990 [ see p. 37923 ] . |
| 28 | Groups of primary elections had been held in August but results were cancelled following widespread allegations of corruption [ see p. 39041 ] . |
| 29 | Indeed , the evidence in general is so slight that it implies that any animosities had been held in check by Edward IV and only surfaced fully after his death . |
| 30 | Indeed , the evidence in general is so slight that it implies that any animosities had been held in check by Edward IV and only surfaced fully after his death . |