Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] hold [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The fund will be available on a claims-made basis to cover any loss suffered by a former shareholder who held shares during the period April 16 to December 1 1990 , and sold that stock at a loss as defined in the settlement agreement .
2 In accordance with Article 115 of the Articles of Association they hold office until the Annual General Meeting when they offer themselves for election .
3 However , the significance of the ‘ South Bank ’ theologians was not only to be seen in their effect on the Church , but also , according to Mrs Whitehouse , in their affinity with the secular intellectual elite which held sway in the 1960s :
4 Under the Angevins , it has been argued , ‘ the legal relationship between a king of France and a king of England who held territories on the continent meant that it was relatively easy for the king of France to legitimize his own actions as part of a legal process ’ .
5 During the next six years he held pleas of the Forests in six counties .
6 This , of course , was not how it seemed to the European powers which held authority over the Middle East after the 1914–18 war .
7 On the Coromandel coast of Tamil Nadu in south-east India , the Pallava Dynasty which held sway during the fourth to eighth centuries traces its lineage to Naga ancestors , as do many Royal families in Kashmir in the north of India .
8 ‘ You will know of our history and you will know that we were sent into that slumber many hundreds of years ago , by the Dark Lords who held sway in the reign of the High King Cormac . ’
9 There are a few apparently local men in the ducal retinue , such as the Richard ap Robert ap Ivan Vaughan who was rewarded as a ducal servant in 1478 and who may be the Richard Vaughan who held office on the duke 's Buckinghamshire estates .
10 There are a few apparently local men in the ducal retinue , such as the Richard ap Robert ap Ivan Vaughan who was rewarded as a ducal servant in 1478 and who may be the Richard Vaughan who held office on the duke 's Buckinghamshire estates .
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