Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his visit Kozyrev made a plea for the release of Russian prisoners of war ( POWs ) believed to be held by the mujaheddin . |
| 2 | They act as a bond between people through providing amusement or an experience shared and believed to be held in common . |
| 3 | In the next century it came to be held as a statute and was regarded as a locus classicus defining at least one boundary between clerical and lay jurisdictions . |
| 4 | International statistical congresses came to be held at intervals from 1853 on , and the scientific standing of the subject was recognised by the election of the celebrated and admirable Dr William Farr ( 1807–83 ) to the Royal Society . |
| 5 | In short large sums of US dollars came to be held on deposit outside the US . |
| 6 | After the downfall of the Black Douglases at Threave in 1455 , Bothwell reverted to the Crown and in time came to be held by the Red Douglases . |
| 7 | The ceasefire seemed to be holding on Sept. 23 as Croatia and the navy began to lift their respective blockades ( although many barracks continued under siege ) . |
| 8 | The 16 NATO leaders invited Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Estonia , Hungary , Latvia , Lithuania , Poland , Romania and the Soviet Union to send foreign ministers to a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels , expected to be held on Dec. 20 , with the purpose of issuing a joint declaration launching a " new era of partnership " . |
| 9 | But the bishops stopped short of making a direct voting recommendation on the three polls expected to be held on November 25 , the day of the general election . |
| 10 | It is , however , increasingly felt by members of CITES delegations and the many observer groups from the world of conservation that Lapointe 's position is becoming untenable and he will be forced to resign — probably before the next CITES meeting , expected to be held in 1992 . |
| 11 | Throughout June President Lech Walesa and the Sejm ( the lower house of parliament ) remained deadlocked over the passage of a bill to establish procedures for the country 's first democratic general election , expected to be held in October . |
| 12 | Bishop looked to be held on the line by two Trinity forwards but wriggled like an eel to get free and touch down . |
| 13 | The July peace agreement designed to end the fighting between Moldova and the self-proclaimed Dnestr republic appeared to be holding on Aug. 7 as Russian and Moldovan leaders began talks in Moscow on the implementation of the accord , and on economic ties . |
| 14 | Another ceasefire brokered by the European Communities ( EC ) appeared to be holding for a time , as the Hague peace conference continued its efforts to find long-term solutions to the conflict , but the truce collapsed in early October . |
| 15 | The ceasefire agreement nevertheless appeared to be holding in the corridors , at least up to the final week of February , and there had still been no reports of any serious breaches of the Rome agreement . |
| 16 | Food and medicine reached the eastern town of Zepa , but there was still no aid distribution in Sarajevo , despite a unilateral , nationwide cease-fire called by Bosnia 's Muslim president , Alija Izetbegovic , which appeared to be holding around the capital , although fighting was reported elsewhere in the country . |
| 17 | The idea was so successful in defusing the explosive situation that the meetings continued to be held at six-monthly intervals . |
| 18 | Party meetings continued to be held at the Carlton and it played a greater part in holding the party together when the Liberal Unionists joined . |
| 19 | Conciliation commission meetings between the two sides continued to be held on a regular basis in the Dnestr town of Bendery , but with little success as local ceasfires were repeatedly disregarded . |
| 20 | The charismatic NLD leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi , 44 , and former Prime Minister and leader of the League for Democracy and Peace ( LDP ) U Nu , 83 , remained under house arrest , and the NLD leader Gen. ( retd ) Tin U , 64 , continued to be held in prison [ see pp. 36816-17 ; 37188 ; 37284 ] . |
| 21 | Court cases continued to be held in the town for the next 100 years , with the bowed front added in 1839 to provide living quarters for the gaoler . |
| 22 | The German pacific Islands continued to be held by Japan under a League of Nations mandate . |
| 23 | In Waltham Forest Attachment Courts , attended by the verderers , foresters and woodwards , continued to be held until the middle of the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | Then again , the pen had to be held at an exact angle and Miss Smith had her own very efficient method of quickly teaching this . |
| 25 | In fact , the A11 stretch at Red Lodge , near Mildenhall , was so busy , the official opening had to be held on a temporarily-closed slip road . |
| 26 | Furthermore , while many of our questions about the relationship between mind and brain had to be held in abeyance , it was possible to make steady progress in answering certain fundamental questions about the organization of the brain . |
| 27 | Its charter , unlike most of the others , did not say that meetings of the directors of the Company had to be held in England . |
| 28 | This meant that fine tuning of the system in many areas , particularly on the personnel side , had to be held in abeyance until the payroll was running smoothly . |
| 29 | The normal procedure was that , at an elaborate ritual ( the tali-tying ceremony ) which had to be held before her first menstruation , every girl was " married " to a ritual husband who came from a matrilineage which had the status of enangar in relation to her own . |
| 30 | In early October , as Mrs Thatcher — flanked by her Cabinet — received a nine-minute standing ovation at the close of a successful party conference , few expected any challenge to her in the leadership election which had to be held within 28 days of the start of the new parliamentary session , due to open on 7 November . |