Example sentences of "were hold [prep] the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three such meetings were held during the course of 1960 . |
| 2 | Discussions were held with the government of Iran in May on the strengthening of bilateral ties . |
| 3 | In 799 the Franks took the Balearic Islands , which faced repeated attacks from Saracen fleets , but were held under the government of the Counts of Genoa and Tuscany . |
| 4 | Praetextatus of Rouen was tried at Paris in 577 , and Gregory himself at a gathering of bishops at the royal palace of Berny-Rivière in 580 : both these last trials were held under the aegis of Chilperic I. A year later the flight of Mummolus was discussed at Lyons . |
| 5 | As discussions were held on the formation of a government , deliberations were also taking place within Congress ( I ) on the issue of the next Prime Minister . |
| 6 | This year 's ITV Awards for Marketing ( co-sponsored by Marketing Week and the Marketing Society ) were held on the eve of last week 's poll-shocker . |
| 7 | A series of government investigations were held into the question of pensions and the conditions of the aged poor , in 1885–87 , 1895 , 1896 and 1899 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | From then on all legal powers , etc. , were held in the name of the Commission and not by the individual executives . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The talks were held in the terminal of Port-au-Prince 's international airport to ensure the safety of the OAS delegates . |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Against a background of continuing civil war between government forces and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) in the northern and eastern provinces , local elections were held throughout the rest of the island on May 11 , resulting in a sweeping victory for the ruling United National Party ( UNP ) . |
| 15 | So also , where an impoverished family left their accommodation on receipt of a distress warrant for rent arrears rather than wait for an eviction order , they were held by the House of Lords to have become homeless intentionally and this encouraged local housing authorities to require such orders before accepting such homeless applicants . |
| 16 | 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 . |