Example sentences of "[noun] were [adv] hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apart from that somewhat exceptional period , in which members of these magnates ' entourages were rewarded with Gascon pos-itions , the great majority of local offices in the administration were tena-ciously held by the Gascon nobility . |
| 2 | The transactions were subsequently held by the House of Lords to have been ultra vires . |
| 3 | The one-day games were now held before the Test series rather than after , an hors d'oeuvre rather than a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was full , but the first game at Headingley was distinctly uninspiring . |
| 4 | It was hardly surprising that these negative attitudes were also held by the trainees themselves . |
| 5 | Meetings were also held during the first half of 1989 between senior PLO officials and officials from France , Spain and the United Kingdom , culminating in Arafat 's talks with President Mitterrand of France in May 1989 , after which the PLO leader said that the PLO 's National Charter was " obsolete " and " null and void " [ see p. 36669 ] . |
| 6 | The prayer meetings were then held in the Methodist and Presbyterian churches . |
| 7 | Simultaneously elections were also held for the Czech and Slovak National Councils , which had 200 and 150 seats respectively . |
| 8 | Weekly markets were often held in the churchyard where buyers and sellers could meet after church ; it was natural , therefore , that the fair should be established at a time and place where many people were gathered . |
| 9 | Ralph de Neville in 1334 heard pleas of Sherwood Forest in 1334 , and eyres were also held in the Earl of Lancaster 's forests of Amounderness , Lonsdale and Pickering in Lancashire and Yorkshire . |
| 10 | Talks were also held between the two countries ' Foreign Ministers , who discussed the Cambodian question , and between the Ministers of Economic Relations and Trade . |
| 11 | The shares were previously held by the company 's founder . |
| 12 | The service and the reception were both held at the hydro , attended by family and friends , and afterwards Steven and Marilyn spent a week in Portugal on their honeymoon . |