Example sentences of "[pos pn] [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 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 .
3 Their briefings were held in the airy first-floor gallery of the university quadrangle .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 Many of his paintings are held by the National Maritime Museum , Greenwich .
7 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 .
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