Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [be] hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prior to the setting up of the CIVC , the single most effective body responsible for guarding the quality of Champagne today , a decree was passed on 28 September 1935 creating an inter-professional organisation called the Commission Spéciale de la Champagne , which soon became known as the Commission de Châlons because its meetings were held in the Prefecture ( the administrative centre ) at Châlons-sur-Marne . |
| 2 | This is a collection of strange bedfellows , but is an interesting reflection of the high esteem in which artists were held at the time . |
| 3 | Uncertainties about future income , and its real value once inflation is taken into account , are likely to affect how hard people work , how much they save , and whether their savings are held in the form of money or as less liquid assets . |
| 4 | Their briefings were held in the airy first-floor gallery of the university quadrangle . |
| 5 | That it has achieved so much is largely due to the high regard in which Philip Hardman , chairman of the Faculty 's technical committee , Edwin Vidler , its secretary , and other members of the committee and its subcommittees are held by the Revenue departments . |
| 6 | The recommendation would help married or unmarried partners whose homes are held in the other partner 's name . |
| 7 | Armagnac 's brother , the archbishop of Auch , had acknowledged that his temporalities were held from the crown of France , and Capetian lawyers tried to argue that the lordships of Armagnac and Fézensac were fiefs of the archbishopric and therefore subject to the superior lordship of the French crown . |
| 8 | Many of his paintings are held by the National Maritime Museum , Greenwich . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There was a substantial body of opinion which would support the view that , whatever convictions were held on the merits , it would be inopportune to introduce this experiment in the unsettled conditions following a major war , when the number of violent crimes was abnormally high and respect for the sanctity of human life had inevitably been impaired by the circumstances of war . |