Example sentences of "were [adv] hold [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the position of the baby is important maybe the two babies in the intervention group who were not held below the introitus should not have been included in the final analysis . |
| 2 | By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 3 | They were still held within the vice of their own fields , with all the complicated property rights which made it impossible to secure land for building development . |
| 4 | The service and the reception were both held at the hydro , attended by family and friends , and afterwards Steven and Marilyn spent a week in Portugal on their honeymoon . |
| 5 | Ralph de Neville in 1334 heard pleas of Sherwood Forest in 1334 , and eyres were also held in the Earl of Lancaster 's forests of Amounderness , Lonsdale and Pickering in Lancashire and Yorkshire . |
| 6 | Weekly markets were often held in the churchyard where buyers and sellers could meet after church ; it was natural , therefore , that the fair should be established at a time and place where many people were gathered . |
| 7 | The one-day games were now held before the Test series rather than after , an hors d'oeuvre rather than a stodgy pudding served up when everyone was full , but the first game at Headingley was distinctly uninspiring . |
| 8 | Apart from that somewhat exceptional period , in which members of these magnates ' entourages were rewarded with Gascon pos-itions , the great majority of local offices in the administration were tena-ciously held by the Gascon nobility . |
| 9 | The prayer meetings were then held in the Methodist and Presbyterian churches . |
| 10 | The shares were previously held by the company 's founder . |
| 11 | The transactions were subsequently held by the House of Lords to have been ultra vires . |