Example sentences of "were [adv] hold by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lordships in the heart of Plantagenet Aquitaine , as well as in the Agenais and the Gers , were thus held by the short-lived countess of Armagnac until her death in 1325 . |
| 2 | By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 3 | It was hardly surprising that these negative attitudes were also held by the trainees themselves . |
| 4 | Apart from that somewhat exceptional period , in which members of these magnates ' entourages were rewarded with Gascon pos-itions , the great majority of local offices in the administration were tena-ciously held by the Gascon nobility . |
| 5 | The shares were previously held by the company 's founder . |
| 6 | The transactions were subsequently held by the House of Lords to have been ultra vires . |