Example sentences of "[noun] were held [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The principal Forest offices were held by the great barons as life appointments . |
| 2 | Most of these reserves were held in the Eurodollar market , which meant that rather than deposit them in New York the central banks of the oil producers deposited them in banks outside the United States . |
| 3 | The values of stocks held [ in Germany ] are to be adjusted if necessary to values equivalent to those if the stock were held in the UK . |
| 4 | The values of stocks held [ in Germany ] are to be adjusted if necessary to values equivalent to those if the stock were held in the UK . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A majority of seats on the 71-member council were held by the Eelam People 's Revolutionary Liberation Front ( EPRLF ) [ see p. 37007 ] , which had been supported by the Indian troop presence . |
| 8 | These gatherings were held in the Church Institute and I did occasionally worry about the language . |
| 9 | In 1960 , 94 per cent of House seats in the South were held by the Democrats , a figure that declined to 68 per cent by 1972 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | The remaining 27 seats were held by the International Movement , representing the Russian minority . |
| 12 | A series of CBC promotional days were held throughout the country during June to promote the scheme . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Both public and private versions were held in the mind at one and the same time . |
| 15 | The finals were held at the Forth Road Bridge Car Park on Sunday 27 June 1993 . |
| 16 | Similar student protests were held on the same day in provincial centres . |
| 17 | Other rights were held by the householders of the rest of Devon , who were classed as ‘ strangers ’ or ‘ foreigners ’ and were allowed to depasture beasts on the commons of Devon surrounding the forest , without payment , and on the forest only on payment of certain small fees . |
| 18 | The 58th British Services International Alpine Ski Championships were held for the second year running in Megève . |
| 19 | The first competitive championships were held in the following year . |
| 20 | THE County Armagh Apple Blossom pipe band championships were held in the Rugby Grounds , Armagh last Saturday amidst sunshine and hailstones . |
| 21 | A quarter of the tenements were freehold ; the rest were held by the normal Shropshire tenure of leases for three lives , with a large entry fine and a nominal annual rent . |
| 22 | Between the 14th day of September 1987 and the 8th day of January 1988 conspired together and with other persons to defraud such persons who had or might have had an interest in dealing in shares in Blue Arrow , or National Westminster Bank , or in dealing on the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index , namely : 2.1 By dishonestly concealing holdings of 19.39 per cent of the share capital of Blue Arrow ; 2.2 By falsely stating that all remaining shares not taken up in the rights issue by existing shareholders had been sold in the market ; 2.3 By falsely representing that 33,315,528 shares in Blue Arrow held by County NatWest Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.4 By falsely representing that 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.5 By dealing off market with Union Bank of Switzerland in 28,201,743 shares in Blue Arrow when by reason of their connection with that company they were knowingly in possession of un-published price sensitive information ; 2.6 By creating a false instrument , namely a letter of indemnity dated 5 October 1987 from Nicholas Wells on behalf of County NatWest to Union Bank Of Switzerland ; 2.7 By engaging in a course of conduct which created a false or misleading impression as to the market in the shares of Blue Arrow for the purpose of creating such an impression and thereby influencing persons who might deal in those shares ; 2.8 By purchasing and retaining 2,150 Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index put option contracts to cover a risk of £51,500,000 whilst concealing from the market the true position in relation to the rights issue and the subsequent placing of shares in Blue Arrow , where Blue Arrow and National Westminster Bank were both component parts of that index . |
| 23 | Between the 14th day of September 1987 and the 8th day of January 1988 conspired together and with other persons to defraud such persons who had or might have had an interest in dealing in shares in Blue Arrow , or National Westminster Bank , or in dealing on the Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index , namely : 2.1 By dishonestly concealing holdings of 19.39 per cent of the share capital of Blue Arrow ; 2.2 By falsely stating that all remaining shares not taken up in the rights issue by existing shareholders had been sold in the market ; 2.3 By falsely representing that 33,315,528 shares in Blue Arrow held by County NatWest Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.4 By falsely representing that 34,069,433 shares in Blue Arrow held by Phillips & Drew Securities were held for the purposes of market making ; 2.5 By dealing off market with Union Bank of Switzerland in 28,201,743 shares in Blue Arrow when by reason of their connection with that company they were knowingly in possession of un-published price sensitive information ; 2.6 By creating a false instrument , namely a letter of indemnity dated 5 October 1987 from Nicholas Wells on behalf of County NatWest to Union Bank Of Switzerland ; 2.7 By engaging in a course of conduct which created a false or misleading impression as to the market in the shares of Blue Arrow for the purpose of creating such an impression and thereby influencing persons who might deal in those shares ; 2.8 By purchasing and retaining 2,150 Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 share index put option contracts to cover a risk of £51,500,000 whilst concealing from the market the true position in relation to the rights issue and the subsequent placing of shares in Blue Arrow , where Blue Arrow and National Westminster Bank were both component parts of that index . |
| 24 | There she wept for her sins and her tears washed away the blood ; The form in which this sermon harnesses the pressure of fear as well as the promise of comfort , provides a recognisable cultural context for the form of Margery Kempe 's initial vision of salvation and witnesses to the high esteem in which tears as a sign of spiritual grace were held in the fifteenth century . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 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 | The wedding receptions were held at the Crown Hotel in Varteg , Gwent , and Talywaun Rugby Club , Gwent . |
| 28 | At periods of crisis , lieutenancies were held by the greater English magnates — Edmund of Lancaster in 1295–6 or Henry de Lacy , earl of Lincoln , in 1296–9 and 1303–5 . |
| 29 | Many of the current members and officials of the Nicaraguan government were held in the nation 's prisons prior to the revolution . |
| 30 | Several protest demonstrations were held following the Mondello verdict , and there were reports of revenge attacks against whites by gangs of black youths . |