Example sentences of "who held [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his first flush of self-congratulation for seducing someone who held such power in the hospital hierarchy , doubts had quickly set in . |
| 2 | It is difficult for the twentieth-century , non-Jewish reader of the Gospels to appreciate just how radical Jesus appeared to his contemporaries , and especially to the religious establishment , who held such a powerful position in Jewish life . |
| 3 | Callistus had publicly accused him of being a ditheist , and used language offering cover to those ( soon associated with a presbyter named Sabellius ) who held that Father , Son , and Spirit are names for one God under different aspects . |
| 4 | By the time of Pompey , the distinction between the powers granted to an office and the authority of the man who held that office had begun to blur . |
| 5 | Being only eighteen years of age and relatively unversed in matters of state , Queen Victoria was much influenced by the Prime Minister , Viscount Melbourne , who held that office from 1835 to 1851 . |
| 6 | an allusion to the Utilitarians , followers of Jeremy Bentham ( 1748–1832 ) , who held that self-interest was always the prime motivating force in human nature . |
| 7 | By 1900 there were only six owners , who held all this and another three thousand acres besides . |
| 8 | The most serious immediate threat to Charles came from Charles of Navarre , who held several castles on the border between Normandy and the Ile-de-France and who was thus in a position to threaten Paris . |
| 9 | Castile itself had been named after the fortresses built along the border between Christian and Moslem Spain , and essentially those who held these castles held the greatest degree of control over the lands on either side . |
| 10 | In essence , a student 's attaining the status of depended on his gaining the sponsorship , after completing or nearly completing his studies , of the holder of one of a number of high-ranking learned posts , the scholars who held these posts each having the privilege on certain occasions of investing a certain number of students , his own or others , with the right to become . |
| 11 | The intention in discussing this second class of mufti , the " important provincial muftis or , more strictly , muderris/muftis , is essentially simply to point out their existence and to give a very rough idea of the nature of the class and of the sort of men who held these posts . |
| 12 | Sesha Pratap , who held those offices , will continue as chairman . |
| 13 | It 's tempting to scent conspiracy — did Hoover stall investigations which might lead to the Mob , who held those compromising pictures ? — but there 's no need . |
| 14 | In this case Brightman J decided that trustees who held most of the shares in a company were negligent when they failed to prevent the directors of the company from entering into a highly speculative property development project , which turned out to be unsuccessful . |
| 15 | Two striking differences from British and American assemblies were noticeable : top government officials were not disbarred from being deputies , the deputies were all part-timers who held another full-time job . |
| 16 | The argument that is to be found most frequently in the writings of the philosophers who held this conception does not in fact relate to colours and sounds , though colours and sounds certainly received a good deal of attention . |
| 17 | An example of one who held this latter position is the existentialist theologian of the last generation Rudolf Bultmann . |
| 18 | If we met someone who held this view he might justify it by saying something like : ‘ I prefer travelling by motor car from Oxford to Westminster , let's say , or from — ’ Where do you live ? |
| 19 | Dhondt 's argument seems to fit Flanders best : but the Count Baldwin ( died 879 ) who held some counties in that region in the latter part of Charles 's reign is never called " Count of Flanders " in any ninth-century text ; the hallmarks of entrenched territorial power ( systematic fortifications ; minting of coins ) are not to be found during his lifetime , but rather in that of his son ; Baldwin had no monopoly on power in Flanders , for other magnates operated in the same region ; finally , no hereditary transmission of the " principality " can be demonstrated here during Charles 's reign but only , again , after Charles 's death . |