Example sentences of "[was/were] hold [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bilateral meetings were held between the Prime Ministers of Greece and Turkey [ see p. 38786 ] , and of India and Pakistan , while African National Congress president Nelson Mandela and South African President F. W. de Klerk also addressed the gathering . |
| 2 | In early January 1990 meetings were held with the Foreign Ministers of Nepal and Sri Lanka , with the King of Bhutan and with Pakistani envoys [ see pp. 37184-85 ; 37356 ; 37357 ; 37183-84 ] . |
| 3 | Informal talks were held with the Social Democrats in June 1989 with the 1990 elections in mind , a recognition in itself that the Green pragmatists were in the ascendant and the Marxist regionalists on the wane . |
| 4 | By this time , therefore , the Forest Eyre was found to be a cumbersome and ineffectual engine , and was allowed to fall into desuetude : only two short eyres were held in the southern forests during the remainder of the century — in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire in 1348 , and in Hampshire and Wiltshire in 1355 . |
| 5 | As you are aware the Lothian finals of the national Young Consumers of the Year Competition were held in the Regional Chambers on 10th March 1993 . |
| 6 | More intimate and relaxed than synagogue services — whoever felt inclined could take it on himself to lead the responses — these minyanim were held in the front rooms of the tiny houses and anyone passing along the street at the time would be assailed by a chorus of incantations like the sound of bees swarming in a hive . |
| 7 | Local elections were held in the Czech Lands on Nov. 24 and in Slovakia on Nov. 23-25 . |
| 8 | The principal Forest offices were held by the great barons as life appointments . |
| 9 | as I was holding on a particular images and create and then become those energy |
| 10 | As he was held between the conflicting pressures of wind and water , so he was caught between the desire to reach Mariana and offer her comfort and the need to husband his remaining strength — but he knew that the husbanding of his strength was paramount if they were to survive . |
| 11 | A well-attended symposium on Global atmospheric chemical change , organised jointly by the Environment Group and the Industrial Division , was held at the Scientific Societies ' Lecture Theatre , London , last November . |
| 12 | Professor Charles Wilson views the effects of the Bubble as " salutary " , but considers that the taking over of so much of the South Sea Company 's excess stock by the Bank of England and East India Company perpetuated into the 1730s the situation in which more than half of the national debt was held by the great corporations . |
| 13 | Both of these are frequently mixed or compounded with other minerals such as copper or lead and so a virtual monopoly was held by the old Mines Royal Company , and its permission was needed . |
| 14 | She was held by the disturbing events of the night , and here was her chance to wait out a better understanding of them on the spot . |
| 15 | To mark the occasion a declaration of intent ceremony was held in the Central Gardens on Wednesday , watched by crowds of local people . |
| 16 | Later in the thirteenth century a Michaelmas Fair was held in the eastern suburbs , a source of perpetual disagreement about jurisdiction and tolls . |
| 17 | Yes the briefing was held in the early hours of Monday morning . |
| 18 | Betty was approached by the vicar 's wife at Hurley to start a class in 1966 , which because of her local influence , was held in the beautiful surroundings of Bisham Abbey . |