Example sentences of "have [vb pp] hold [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | * The Ukrainian government has decided to hold an international contest to work out a method of converting the fourth reactor at Chernobyl into an environmentally safe system . |
| 2 | The Indian government has agreed to hold a public review of the Sardar Sarovar dam project on the Narmada river after protesters called off threats to drown themselves in the river in an effort to stop the project . |
| 3 | ‘ If I had done all six , my new film would have got in the way and I never would have wanted to hold the Darling Buds cast up . |
| 4 | Erm , from the E C were , we 've decided to hold the usual Christmas social and Peggy and myself will organise as before with the usual conscripts , you know , the usual team of workers , volunteers I mean . |
| 5 | With five of his supporters he had tried to hold a street-corner meeting , heckled by a group of twenty onlookers , some of whom began to sing the ‘ Internationale ’ . |
| 6 | In Berlin 's Potsdamer Platz , Liebknecht had tried to hold an anti-war rally , leading to Germany 's first war-time strikes . |
| 7 | Christopher added that , as one step , Washington had endorsed holding a special meeting of the foreign and finance ministers of the world 's seven leading industrial countries , the Group of Seven , later in April to co-ordinate joint efforts to assist Russia 's transformation . |