Example sentences of "were held in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two separate services were held in the barracks church for five of the victims . |
| 2 | ‘ The first genuinely free elections were held in the Soviet Union , ’ he pointed out . |
| 3 | Their briefings were held in the airy first-floor gallery of the university quadrangle . |
| 4 | By this time , therefore , the Forest Eyre was found to be a cumbersome and ineffectual engine , and was allowed to fall into desuetude : only two short eyres were held in the southern forests during the remainder of the century — in Northamptonshire and Buckinghamshire in 1348 , and in Hampshire and Wiltshire in 1355 . |
| 5 | Between 1488 and 1490 eyres were held in the Berkshire and Surrey divisions of Windsor Forest , in Hampshire , Wiltshire , Northamptonshire , Essex , Buckinghamshire and Huntingdonshire . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | From the age of eight onwards he was allowed to dine with his parents at the Bonaparte family dinners which took place every Monday at the Tuileries , and occasionally at more formal dinners which were held in the Galerie de Diane . |
| 8 | Less crowded and more sought after than these official Court balls were the Empress 's ‘ Mondays ’ , known as the petits bals du lundi , which were held in the Salon Bleu of her own apartments . |
| 9 | Rehearsals were held in the Club 's premises at 136 Bree Street , a former gymnasium acquired and converted only a couple of years before . |
| 10 | The first Presbyterian services in Portadown were held in the basement of a building where the Ulster Bank now stands and then in 1822 the first church was built in Edenderry on the site where the lecture hall now stands . |
| 11 | The first pre-retirement courses were held in the United States in 1949 , but it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that the need for them has been recognised in the United Kingdom . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Both public and private versions were held in the mind at one and the same time . |
| 15 | From then on all legal powers , etc. , were held in the name of the Commission and not by the individual executives . |
| 16 | It is believed , although not confirmed , that the missing drawings from the Koenigs Collection which resurfaced last September in Russia were held in the same monastery ( see The Art Newspaper No. 22 , November 1992 , p.8 ) . |
| 17 | Although they were held in the shadow of the assassinations of President Ranasinghe Premadasa and an opposition leader , Lalith Athulathmudali , and in sharp contrast to the provincial elections held in 1988 , not a gun was fired . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Many of the current members and officials of the Nicaraguan government were held in the nation 's prisons prior to the revolution . |
| 20 | I did , yes , erm , when erm , we thought our prisoner was finished the co-ordinators wrote to me and said would I be interested , would our group be interested in erm , writing to Yugoslavia 's still , because with the Civil War going on there 's lots of cases coming up , for example there was a whole hospital full of patients that were taken prisoner I do n't know if they were actually physically removed or whether they were held in the hospital without access to medical treatment for something like ten days , and erm , Saria did say she 'd help me last time and I wrote back and said yes , two of us could write once a month , well they 're taken that very liberally and , and , got two or three things from the already and erm , if anyone else is interested in writing an odd letter say once a month to Yugoslavia maybe they could erm , let me know later on . . |
| 21 | These gatherings were held in the Church Institute and I did occasionally worry about the language . |
| 22 | The San Salvador Central Market occupation lasted for 12 days , from 11 to 23 December 1979 , and a number of hostages from among the administrative personnel were held in the offices . |
| 23 | More intimate and relaxed than synagogue services — whoever felt inclined could take it on himself to lead the responses — these minyanim were held in the front rooms of the tiny houses and anyone passing along the street at the time would be assailed by a chorus of incantations like the sound of bees swarming in a hive . |
| 24 | The following amounts were held in the accounts . |
| 25 | The first competitive championships were held in the following year . |
| 26 | For the first since Burns Supper were held in the hall we had to cancel as two main speakers called off at a very late stage . |
| 27 | They were held in the canteen . |
| 28 | For the first since Burns Supper were held in the hall we had to cancel as two main speakers called off at a very late stage . |
| 29 | As you are aware the Lothian finals of the national Young Consumers of the Year Competition were held in the Regional Chambers on 10th March 1993 . |
| 30 | THE County Armagh Apple Blossom pipe band championships were held in the Rugby Grounds , Armagh last Saturday amidst sunshine and hailstones . |