Example sentences of "were hold in " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first the men were held in Kenitra Central Prison . |
| 2 | Some examples from the pre-reformation period , such as the magnificent George Inn at Norton St. Philip , Somerset , originally constructed in the 14th century , were established by monasteries for pilgrims and travellers ; but after the dissolutions of the 1530s all were held in secular hands and subsequently catered for the increasing number of road travellers in the 16th century and the stage coach trade that first appeared in the early 17th century . |
| 3 | Crisis meetings were held in Bonn and East Berlin all day , but Helmut Kohl , the West German Chancellor , was refused a telephone conversation with the East German leader , Erich Honecker . |
| 4 | Two separate services were held in the barracks church for five of the victims . |
| 5 | The two men were held in military custody , incommunicado , for some time and are believed to have been ill-treated . |
| 6 | Further Commonwealth talks were held in London in late December at which various parallel services were agreed to link Britain with India , Australia , and New Zealand ( by BOAC and QANTAS ) , and with South Africa ( BOAC and South African Airways ) . |
| 7 | Anglo-American talks were held in London on 24 August 1945 in an effort to break the deadlock , but were unsuccessful . |
| 8 | In part Morgan believed that , in systems based on descent groups , spouses were held in common because , in such a society , people often talk of wives or husbands as ‘ having been married to such and such a gens ’ . |
| 9 | Thomas Cranmer and Aleister Crowley were held in uneasy balance in his sympathies . |
| 10 | ‘ The first genuinely free elections were held in the Soviet Union , ’ he pointed out . |
| 11 | Tibetan sources claim that two nuns who were seized after the March demonstrations were held in cells with male prisoners and raped . |
| 12 | Similar protests were held in other towns , where the party and regional authority 's headquarters were besieged by angry demonstrators . |
| 13 | Their briefings were held in the airy first-floor gallery of the university quadrangle . |
| 14 | Bishops , priests , and deacons were held in scorn by them ; but they allowed positions of leadership and liturgical presidency to women , as orthodox communities did not . |
| 15 | Iran had once seized American hostages , and was an enemy ; but the American hostages at issue in 1985 and 1986 were held in Lebanon by Hizbollah , a fanatical group merely sympathetic to Iran , and Iran 's good offices were necessary to deal with them . |
| 16 | The sides of the curtain were held in tracks to help it run smoothly . |
| 17 | If music were important then choirs needed to be improved ; in Gloucestershire a Nonconformist United Choirs Union was formed in 1892 and music festivals were held in Gloucester in 1892 and 1894 . |
| 18 | After the liberation , elections were held in 1946 in which the Communists gained thirty-eight per cent of the national vote . |
| 19 | The first genuinely free elections since 1945 were held in March 1990 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ Swainmotes ’ or ‘ swanimotes ’ were held in a number of southern forests — in Melchet , Melksham and Pewsham , Gillingham , Bernwood and Waltham , and in Windsor forest in Berkshire and in Surrey . |
| 22 | Between 1488 and 1490 eyres were held in the Berkshire and Surrey divisions of Windsor Forest , in Hampshire , Wiltshire , Northamptonshire , Essex , Buckinghamshire and Huntingdonshire . |
| 23 | An army parade and memorial services were held in Argentina , which still claims the Falklands , to mark the tenth anniversary of the invasion of the islands . |
| 24 | As such they were held in hotels , halls , etc . |
| 25 | Cut-throat Jake and his fellows were held in the powerful grip of the Dragoons , and the incriminating barrels lay on the rocks before them . |
| 26 | Upon their submission , the Westphalians were held in check by garrisons at two large Frankish camps , at Eresburg and Sigiburg . |
| 27 | The Olympic Games were held in London during 1908 , and in that year H. H. Asquith became Prime Minister . |
| 28 | Later in December , three meetings were held in one day — those of the Bondholders ' , the Club 's first Annual General Meeting and the first committee meeting of the constitutionally elected members — Anker Simmons chairing the first two and Dr. J. Susman the third . |
| 29 | In Paris , at No. 6 Rue Huyghens , in a dingy , badly heated studio which belonged to a Swiss painter , Lejeune , modern art exhibitions , poetry readings and performances of new music were held in wartime . |
| 30 | From the age of eight onwards he was allowed to dine with his parents at the Bonaparte family dinners which took place every Monday at the Tuileries , and occasionally at more formal dinners which were held in the Galerie de Diane . |