Example sentences of "[was/were] hold [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign ministers ' talks were held with the Russians in Berlin in early 1954 , but progress on a German peace treaty again proved impossible . |
| 2 | A series of regional seminars were held with the consortia identified by the School Management Task Force . |
| 3 | The talks were held under the auspices of the National Unification Commission , a body which had been established by presidential proclamation in early August in order to promote the new government 's policy of encouraging all insurgents to renounce armed struggle in return for an amnesty . |
| 4 | The talks were held under the auspices of the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) , which says that most of the well-known marine fish stocks are being exploited at or far beyond the limits of sustainability , largely because of the development of deep-sea fleets working far from home . |
| 5 | Between the 14th day of September 1987 and the 8th day of January 1988 conspired together and with other persons to defraud such persons who had or might have had an interest in dealing in shares in Blue Arrow , or National Westminster Bank , or in dealing on the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index , namely : 2.1 By dishonestly concealing holdings of 19.39 per cent of the share capital of Blue Arrow ; 2.2 By falsely stating that all remaining shares not taken up in the rights issue by existing shareholders had been sold in the market ; 2.3 By falsely representing that 33,315,528 shares in Blue Arrow held by County NatWest Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.4 By falsely representing that 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.5 By dealing off market with Union Bank of Switzerland in 28,201,743 shares in Blue Arrow when by reason of their connection with that company they were knowingly in possession of un-published price sensitive information ; 2.6 By creating a false instrument , namely a letter of indemnity dated 5 October 1987 from Nicholas Wells on behalf of County NatWest to Union Bank Of Switzerland ; 2.7 By engaging in a course of conduct which created a false or misleading impression as to the market in the shares of Blue Arrow for the purpose of creating such an impression and thereby influencing persons who might deal in those shares ; 2.8 By purchasing and retaining 2,150 Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index put option contracts to cover a risk of £51,500,000 whilst concealing from the market the true position in relation to the rights issue and the subsequent placing of shares in Blue Arrow , where Blue Arrow and National Westminster Bank were both component parts of that index . |
| 6 | Between the 14th day of September 1987 and the 8th day of January 1988 conspired together and with other persons to defraud such persons who had or might have had an interest in dealing in shares in Blue Arrow , or National Westminster Bank , or in dealing on the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index , namely : 2.1 By dishonestly concealing holdings of 19.39 per cent of the share capital of Blue Arrow ; 2.2 By falsely stating that all remaining shares not taken up in the rights issue by existing shareholders had been sold in the market ; 2.3 By falsely representing that 33,315,528 shares in Blue Arrow held by County NatWest Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.4 By falsely representing that 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.5 By dealing off market with Union Bank of Switzerland in 28,201,743 shares in Blue Arrow when by reason of their connection with that company they were knowingly in possession of un-published price sensitive information ; 2.6 By creating a false instrument , namely a letter of indemnity dated 5 October 1987 from Nicholas Wells on behalf of County NatWest to Union Bank Of Switzerland ; 2.7 By engaging in a course of conduct which created a false or misleading impression as to the market in the shares of Blue Arrow for the purpose of creating such an impression and thereby influencing persons who might deal in those shares ; 2.8 By purchasing and retaining 2,150 Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index put option contracts to cover a risk of £51,500,000 whilst concealing from the market the true position in relation to the rights issue and the subsequent placing of shares in Blue Arrow , where Blue Arrow and National Westminster Bank were both component parts of that index . |
| 7 | There was a substantial body of opinion which would support the view that , whatever convictions were held on the merits , it would be inopportune to introduce this experiment in the unsettled conditions following a major war , when the number of violent crimes was abnormally high and respect for the sanctity of human life had inevitably been impaired by the circumstances of war . |
| 8 | There used to be just the sports in the afternoon ; Mary Clarke and Bill Scott remembered when the races were held on the roads through the village , in the days before there were so many motor cars . |
| 9 | The following amounts were held in the accounts . |
| 10 | The San Salvador Central Market occupation lasted for 12 days , from 11 to 23 December 1979 , and a number of hostages from among the administrative personnel were held in the offices . |
| 11 | On Dec. 31 talks were held in the offices of the Hebrew newspaper Kol Ha'Ir between Teddy Kollek , the mayor of Jerusalem , and Faisal al-Hussaini , who was widely regarded as the unofficial representative of the PLO in the city . |
| 12 | The Chesterfield Races were held within a stones throw of Sheepbridge & Brimington , and this is an original GC poster from the year 1911 when the fare from Penistone was two shillings and sixpence . |
| 13 | The House of Lords held that the cause of action accrued at vesting date , even though the appellants could not have proved the moneys were held by the respondents as authorised undertakers until the minister so decided . |
| 14 | Thus the case was presented on the footing that the documents concerned had come into being and were held by the solicitors for their client as the result of a suspected intent by a third party to use them for the purpose of furthering his criminal activity . |
| 15 | On the coast , the middling types of position were held by the mestizos , the people of mixed race which could include African , European , and Chinese . |
| 16 | But this decision was distinguished in a later case where , in all relevant respects , the wording of the article was similar but the shares were held by the executors of a deceased shareholder . |
| 17 | In 1960 , 94 per cent of House seats in the South were held by the Democrats , a figure that declined to 68 per cent by 1972 . |
| 18 | Other rights were held by the householders of the rest of Devon , who were classed as ‘ strangers ’ or ‘ foreigners ’ and were allowed to depasture beasts on the commons of Devon surrounding the forest , without payment , and on the forest only on payment of certain small fees . |
| 19 | A public discussion was held between the groups , the designers explaining how the machines would work . |
| 20 | The gathering was held under the auspices of the Saudi government , and was also understood to have had the backing of Iran , which had conducted separate talks with opposition leaders . |
| 21 | The Bahr Dar meeting was held under the auspices of the standing committee on the Horn of Africa , established in April [ see p. 38855 ] . |
| 22 | A workshop was held at the Arts Centre in Vane Terrace as part of the town 's exuberant Spring Thing folk festival . |
| 23 | The crime prevention and personal safety quiz was held at the police station and judged by senior officers , the Mayor of Darlington and the town 's MP , Michael Fallon . |
| 24 | The first of the Cricket memorabilia Society 's London evening meetings was held at the Cricketers ' Club of London on April 15 . |
| 25 | In Osred 's first year a council was held on the banks of the River Nidd , again presided over by Archbishop Beorhtwald , at which both Aelfflaed and Berhtfrith spoke in Wilfrid 's favour ; Wilfrid was not restored to York , of which John of Beverley , bishop of Hexham , became bishop , but he was allowed to retain his former possessions of Ripon and Hexham as bishop of Hexham ( HE V , 19 : Vita Wilfridi , ch. 60 ) . |
| 26 | Baggy welts , ugly v-necks , that grubby line caused by the carriage rubbing against the side of the front which was held on the needles while the first side of the front neck was being knitted … |
| 27 | It was held on the facts that the trustees did not have the power to make such loans and that the payments were in fact outright payments so that she was properly assessed to income tax . |
| 28 | This year on Trinity Sunday , a candle-lighting ceremony with music , poetry , banners and balloons was held on the steps of St Martin's-in-the-fields church to mark AI 's anniversary . |
| 29 | Houses at 2 3 and 4 Juniper Park Road A site meeting on 13th October was held with the lawyers and surveyors and the damage was assessed . |
| 30 | Houses at 2 3 and 4 Juniper Park Road A site meeting on 13th October was held with the lawyers and surveyors and the damage was assessed . |