Example sentences of "[art] [noun pl] were hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The House of Lords held that the cause of action accrued at vesting date , even though the appellants could not have proved the moneys were held by the respondents as authorised undertakers until the minister so decided . |
| 2 | The sessions were held in the schoolroom and three nurses , in rippling saris , stood at the front of the room and demonstrated , with the use of pictures and a dummy , how intestinal worms and diseases are spread by eggs and germs that pass from one person 's faeces to another person 's mouth . |
| 3 | The finals were held at the Forth Road Bridge Car Park on Sunday 27 June 1993 . |
| 4 | At first the winter months were used for training but when the policy of laying up cutters for the winter was discontinued the courses were held throughout the year . |
| 5 | The elections were held in the context of continuing controversy over the recent introduction of the community charge ( " poll tax " ) system of local government finance [ see page 37329 ] . |
| 6 | The elections were held against the background of the serious and savage autumn harvest uprisings in October 1946 and were characterised by various grave deficiencies : some electors were not notified of the election , votes were cast by others in the names of genuine electors . |
| 7 | The talks were held under the auspices of the National Unification Commission , a body which had been established by presidential proclamation in early August in order to promote the new government 's policy of encouraging all insurgents to renounce armed struggle in return for an amnesty . |
| 8 | The talks were held under the auspices of the UN Food & Agriculture Organisation ( FAO ) , which says that most of the well-known marine fish stocks are being exploited at or far beyond the limits of sustainability , largely because of the development of deep-sea fleets working far from home . |
| 9 | The talks were held at the CPF site and included issues which were set forth in four documents , all of them unanimously approved by community representatives and by BPXC . |
| 10 | The talks were held in the terminal of Port-au-Prince 's international airport to ensure the safety of the OAS delegates . |
| 11 | There used to be just the sports in the afternoon ; Mary Clarke and Bill Scott remembered when the races were held on the roads through the village , in the days before there were so many motor cars . |
| 12 | But this decision was distinguished in a later case where , in all relevant respects , the wording of the article was similar but the shares were held by the executors of a deceased shareholder . |
| 13 | The by-elections were held in the mainly Maronite Christian area of Kesrouan where a Christian boycott of the August-September elections had been complete . |
| 14 | No elections were held in the predominantly Tamil Northern and Eastern Provinces because it was judged that the Tamil Tiger terrorists would have set about disrupting them . |