Example sentences of "were hold by the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously investment trusts ' management expenses need to be paid and corporation tax paid , again reducing the value of the shares relative to the underlying assets if they were held by the investor . |
| 2 | By 1294 five-sixths of the castles within the duchy of Aquitaine were held by the nobility : thus , of 130 fortresses in the Agenais , only six were in ducal hands . |
| 3 | The House of Lords held that the cause of action accrued at vesting date , even though the appellants could not have proved the moneys were held by the respondents as authorised undertakers until the minister so decided . |
| 4 | The practice will also apply where assets were held by the transferor on 31 March 1982 , unless actual consideration is given by the transferee . |
| 5 | Thus the case was presented on the footing that the documents concerned had come into being and were held by the solicitors for their client as the result of a suspected intent by a third party to use them for the purpose of furthering his criminal activity . |
| 6 | So also , where an impoverished family left their accommodation on receipt of a distress warrant for rent arrears rather than wait for an eviction order , they were held by the House of Lords to have become homeless intentionally and this encouraged local housing authorities to require such orders before accepting such homeless applicants . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But this decision was distinguished in a later case where , in all relevant respects , the wording of the article was similar but the shares were held by the executors of a deceased shareholder . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Other rights were held by the householders of the rest of Devon , who were classed as ‘ strangers ’ or ‘ foreigners ’ and were allowed to depasture beasts on the commons of Devon surrounding the forest , without payment , and on the forest only on payment of certain small fees . |