Example sentences of "[adv] held [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highlight of the Junior School charities programme is the Summer Charities Fair held on the lawns in June . |
| 2 | Well they were just just held in the barns too . |
| 3 | Does it refer to territory already held by the Croatians or does it apply to old frontiers which are up for grabs ? |
| 4 | They may either be conceived as the ultimate arbiters of truth and values ( a function once held by the churches ) or they may meet certain religious or psychological needs . |
| 5 | There is now no doubt that those societies who were not represented will deeply regret the step they adopted , for those would-be representatives have missed having had the honour of being at the best gathering ever held in the annals of the deaf and dumb . " |
| 6 | It was hardly surprising that these negative attitudes were also held by the trainees themselves . |
| 7 | The Dalriadic Scots and the Britons , probably of Strathclyde , whom Ecgfrith had almost certainly driven into alliance with the Picts in 685 through his claims to supremacy over them ( see above , p. 100 ) , regained their independence , and the Picts threw off the overlordship of the northern Anglian king and recaptured territory formerly held by the Angles ( HE IV , 26 ) . |
| 8 | Control of emergency operations is now held by the police , advised by Scottish Nuclear and with input from various Government departments , local authorities , health authorities , fire and ambulance services , and others . |
| 9 | Snowy owl assemblages have relatively higher rates of molar loss than barn owl and long-eared owl assemblages , and this almost certainly reflects their dominance by lemmings , the teeth of which are loosely held in the jaws . |
| 10 | Smaller portions of Thornholme land have been variously held over the years by members of the Griffith , Somerville and Boynton families , and changed hands within these families . |
| 11 | I asked the Home Secretary to list the kinds of information currently held on the police national computer under the data class of warning signals . |
| 12 | In Darlington yesterday bookie Frank Pinkney put the prices for who will win the key marginal seat , currently held by the Tories , as Conservatives 4–6 favourites ; Labour 5–4 ; Liberal Democrats 200–1 . |
| 13 | The Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act 1991 ( enacted on June 27 , 1991 ) re-enacted the above and , in addition , provided for an extension of the power of seizure in relation to terrorist offences currently held by the police to the armed forces , and created a new offence of bypassing closed border crossing points . |