Example sentences of "were [adv] hold [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The prayer meetings were then held in the Methodist and Presbyterian churches . |
| 9 | The shares were previously held by the company 's founder . |
| 10 | The transactions were subsequently held by the House of Lords to have been ultra vires . |