Example sentences of "have been hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party reacted with unnecessary embarrassment and defensiveness to government attacks on general talks it has been holding with the Greens , and its desire , as part of its traditional Ostpolitik , to press on with contacts with the Communist party in East Berlin despite the sudden surge of open opposition to the government by East German citizens . |
| 2 | In the event , few new Irish peerages have been created since 1800 , and no election has been held since 1922 when the Irish Free State came into being . |
| 3 | The course changed over the years and , in 1957 , following a tragic accident , the last Mille Miglia was held although smaller version of the race around Brescia continued to be staged , and a series of nostalgic races has been held since 1982 . |
| 4 | Earnings per share for the first half were reduced to 5.47p , against 7.83p last time , but the interim dividend has been held at 1.5p . |
| 5 | Since 1973 , an annual conference devoted to the applications of computing and mathematics to archaeology has been held at varying locations in Britain . |
| 6 | After an initial post-independence surge , primary school enrolment has been held at around 46 per cent by the destruction of rural schools and the resulting lack of access for many nominally enrolled pupils . |
| 7 | Each member 's contribution has been held at £15,000 for the second year . |
| 8 | An eleven year old boy has been held at gunpoint by armed raiders and forced to lead them to money and jewellery at his family home . |
| 9 | Because there are no unions here staff have not been involved in the strike ballot which has been held at the other four British plants . |
| 10 | Since Dr John Gore , a nuclear scientist and his wife Ruth were found at their home at Tetbury in Gloucestershire in September last year , axed to death , their son Christopher has been held at Broadmoor Hospital . |
| 11 | A service for Wilfred James Moorby , 65 , has been held at York crematorium and David Whitehead , 36 , was cremated yesterday in Huddersfield . |
| 12 | The grant for the RSNO has been held at £1.82 million , the same as in the current financial year . |
| 13 | Interest charges fell from £2.5 million to under £500,0000 and gearing has been held at 29 per cent . |
| 14 | It has been held under the drink/driving law that the object of requiring the officer to be ‘ in uniform ’ was to ensure that the constable would be easily recognised as such by the public . |
| 15 | It has been held under an equivalent section in England that , an adjournment having once been allowed on the ground that some requirement was not complied with , the justices had no power to adjourn a second time because another irregularity had occurred : R. v. Poole JJ. [ 1951 ] 2 T.L.R. 261 . |
| 16 | A meeting on book provision in schools has been held with Baroness Blatch , Minister of State . |
| 17 | The fair was known as Barnaby Fair as it was held on the old Feast of St Barnabas on the 22nd June ; more recently it has been held on the Tuesday nearest this date . |
| 18 | Among the hundreds of those held without charge or trial in Syria are the following who have appeared in the Letter Writing Campaign : Hakem Sultan al-Faiz , a 61-year-old Jordanian national and former member of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party , who has been held for almost 20 years ; Ahmad ‘ Abd al-Rau'uf Roummou , a 55-year-old teacher , arrested in 1975 ; Muhammad Nabil Salem , an engineer , arrested in the wake of a one-day national strike in 1980 and Mahmud Jalbut , a Palestinian arrested in 1980 . |
| 19 | She was of course referring to the Salisbury Annual Pleasure Fair that has been held for three days commencing on the third Monday in October for the last seven hundred years . |
| 20 | To ‘ off-comed 'uns ’ it is not even a large village , with only 2,080 inhabitants , but to the native it is a town because it has held a market charter since 1223 and although no market has been held for many years , the charter was read once a year in the market place until 1939 . |
| 21 | Plainly , events such as the Durham Miners ' Gala , which has been held for decades fall within the rubric . |
| 22 | All stock that has been held for more than twenty months at the balance sheet date will be written down to scrap value with reference to independently verifiable third party documentation ; |
| 23 | Meanwhile a memorial service has been held for the former cabinet minister and Cotswolds MP Nicholas Ridley . |
| 24 | A memorial service has been held for the survivors and relatives of those who lost their lives in an air crash fifty years ago . |
| 25 | A memorial service has been held for the survivors and relatives of those who lost their lives in an air crash fifty years ago . |
| 26 | They will be competing at the Haribo meet in Bonn , where the German World Cup fixture has been held for the past four years and where many world and European records have been broken . |
| 27 | Even within the United Kingdom , an Act of Parliament ( the Northern Ireland Parliament , set up under the Government of Ireland Act 1920 which withheld certain powers from it ) has been held to be limited in respect of the range of authority which it conferred ( Belfast Corporation v O.D. Cars Ltd [ 1960 ] AC 490 ) . |
| 28 | In a number of decided cases a landlord has been held to be acting reasonably in refusing consent in these circumstances : |
| 29 | Pedalling an auto-assisted bicycle without starting the engine has been held to be driving away . |
| 30 | In such a case a complete reconsideration of the case , including the taking of evidence and the finding of facts , would be a waste of time and money ; so the court can remit the case and direct the authority to reconsider the facts in the light of the law as it has been held to be . |