Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] hold in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The prayer meetings were then held in the Methodist and Presbyterian churches . |
| 4 | This belief , though not taught in the Old Testament , was widely held in the Jewish constituency among whom Paul worked : it is widely believed today that if only you try hard and do your best , God will accept you at the last . |
| 5 | For five years after her departure , Edinburgh castle was loyally held in the queen 's name under the command of her secretary , William Maitland of Lethington , and the distinguished soldier Sir William Kirkcaldy of Grange , in spite of Kirkcaldy 's having led the forces opposed to her at Langside . |
| 6 | But the ceremony was usually held in the morning and would not , therefore , have clashed with the NICRA demonstration . |
| 7 | But we must not be confused by this : a wide variety of views had been held on the relations of popes and emperors , bishops and kings , in the tenth century ; a wide variety was still held in the twelfth . |
| 8 | What emerges from these scantily recorded years is that by the time of the first minuted meeting , in January 1907 , and which was probably held in the manager 's office at the Henley branch of Reading bankers , J. and C. Simonds , much work towards the Club 's formation had already been accomplished . |
| 9 | Creggan could not see that at the sound of his words and particularly at the name of Callanish , there came into the eyes of old Minch , who was now held in the cage by the Men , a look as from some vast distance in the past . |
| 10 | In Blaxhall at Whitsun , a fair was regularly held in the village inn . |
| 11 | This popular event was again held in the Elderslie Village Hall on Friday , 18th November . |
| 12 | In terms of his popularity and renown during his lifetime , Jacobus Arcadelt was certainly held in the highest esteem . |