Example sentences of "to [be] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | This ceasefire was reported to be holding on Oct 21 , although poor weather was thought to be a major factor . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Troops of the 1,500-strong Senegalese ECOMOG contingent were said to be holding off NPFL guerrillas attacking a strategic bridge 7 km north of central Monrovia . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The appellant , in accordance with her previously announced intention , was about to address a meeting to be held across the street from the entrance to an unemployed training centre , attracting a crowd of some 30 people . |
| 9 | It was revealed later that they are to be held outside Liverpool at one of Britain 's four special secure units for child offenders . |
| 10 | In its first real move into the Japanese market , Santa Cruz Japan has a well-planned series of seminars ready to be held over the next few months . |
| 11 | More random checks are to be held over the next few weeks . |
| 12 | All that unpopularity in the country or in the Commons manages to achieve is a revolt by a handful of predictable Tory rebels , a few careful speeches about the need to present policy better , and a vague anxiety about the results of an election not due to be held for years . |
| 13 | In 1933 a scheme was launched for classes to be held for schoolboys during the autumn term under the management of the Corinthians , the amateur club , with Arsenal as sponsors and Chapman taking classes in basic skills , positional play and training . |
| 14 | ‘ As a small library authority covering a very large geographical area , I would arrange for formal internal training programmes to be held for all staff ’ … |
| 15 | These elections were the first to be held for offices above the lowest administrative level since China became a republic in 1911 and the fist nationwide elections for People 's Congresses since the outset of the Cultural Revolution . |
| 16 | Auditions are also to be held for the brass ensemble , the junior brass ensembles and the baroque orchestra courses . |
| 17 | This will be the first exhibition devoted to this aspect of Canaletto 's work to be held for thirty years , and lenders will include H.M.The Queen , the National Gallery , the National Trust and many private and public collections . |
| 18 | It was finally fixed in place and glazed just in time for a christening and the first flower festival to be held for a while . |
| 19 | The terrified inhabitants are either burned or led away with their hands tied to be held for ransom . |
| 20 | At some stage during his early career he and his mother Joan were granted the manor of Eastington on the Isle of Purbeck , Dorset , by the priory of Christ Church Twynham , to be held for their lifetimes . |
| 21 | Once major strategies have been set , they are likely to be held for some time . |
| 22 | Before the end of the 28 days any member or auditor may serve notice on the company requiring a meeting to be held for that purpose . |
| 23 | However , deputies ordered elections to be held for the Supreme Soviet in March 1994 , a year early . |
| 24 | Under s665(2) , a settlement shall not be deemed to be revocable by reason only : ( a ) that it contains a provision under which any income or assets will or may become payable to or applicable for the benefit of the settlor , or the wife or husband of the settlor , on the bankruptcy of the settlor 's child or in the event of an assignment of or charge on that income or those assets being executed by the settlor 's child ; or ( b ) that it provides for the determination of the settlement by the act or on the default of any person in such a manner that the determination will not , during the lifetime of the settlor 's child , benefit the settlor or the wife or husband of the settlor ; or ( c ) in the case of a settlement to which section 33 of the Trustee Act 1925 applies , that it directs income to be held for the benefit of the settlor 's child on protective trusts , unless the trust period is a period less than the life of the child or the settlement specifies some event on the happening of which the child would , if the income were payable during the trust period to him absolutely during that period , be deprived of the right to receive all or part of the income . |
| 25 | Russia 's President Yeltsin has ordered elections to be held for a new upper house of Parliament . |
| 26 | Festival organisers also hope for high standard of competition in a new music competition to be held for the first time this year . |
| 27 | Festival organisers also hope for high standard of music in a competition to be held for the first time . |
| 28 | The limit to which the RCM was prepared to go in this matter was revealed in March 1939 , when Grunpeter was told that his salary was to be held to £2 a week , a sum ‘ which will make it impossible to continue my work at the camp as resident minister ’ . |
| 29 | Elections will then have to be held to chose the 300 members of the lower house , to be called the State Duma . |
| 30 | It could be believed that God , whatever was understood by God , was equally close to all times and places ; that no particular period , and no particular events , were to be held to be more revelatory of God than others . |