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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 Shotton were held to a draw by Ashington .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Many of the current members and officials of the Nicaraguan government were held in the nation 's prisons prior to the revolution .
11 As you are aware the Lothian finals of the national Young Consumers of the Year Competition were held in the Regional Chambers on 10th March 1993 .
12 In contrast to the plight of every Republican incumbent , both the House and Senate were held by the president 's party , and by big majorities at that .
13 Potter 's bid for martyrdom came at twenty-five-foot Waimea in the winter of '86‐7 when the early rounds of the Billabong Pro were held at the Bay .
14 His Secretaryship of the BDDA , undertaken simultaneously , established the precedent that the two principal official positions of the BDDA were held by a hearing and a deaf man respectively .
15 On the coast , the middling types of position were held by the mestizos , the people of mixed race which could include African , European , and Chinese .
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