Example sentences of "were hold [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Three such meetings were held during the course of 1960 .
2 Throughout 1992 meetings were held across the country for representatives of industry and colleges to discuss the implications of the new framework .
3 Discussions were held with the government of Iran in May on the strengthening of bilateral ties .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 These were held on the road outside the inn and the distances were : one mile , a half and a quarter of a mile .
8 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 .
9 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 .
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 From then on all legal powers , etc. , were held in the name of the Commission and not by the individual executives .
12 The entry of foreign forces into the Gulf swung public opinion strongly behind Iraq , and a number of pro-Iraqi demonstrations were held in the country during August , including a march organized by the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) in Algiers on Aug. 15 .
13 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 .
14 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 . .
15 The talks were held in the terminal of Port-au-Prince 's international airport to ensure the safety of the OAS delegates .
16 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 ] .
17 Both public and private versions were held in the mind at one and the same time .
18 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 .
19 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 ) .
20 A series of CBC promotional days were held throughout the country during June to promote the scheme .
21 The practice will also apply where assets were held by the transferor on 31 March 1982 , unless actual consideration is given by the transferee .
22 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 .
23 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 .
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