Example sentences of "[noun sg] held by the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ultimately , loans were granted to customers by means of issuing notes or crediting their accounts with deposits ( loans ) in excess of the gold stock held by the goldsmith . |
| 2 | Long ago the Vexin had been divided into two along the line of the River Epte : on the east bank the French Vexin held by the King of France , on the west the Norman Vexin held by the Duke of Normandy . |
| 3 | The deeply unpopular Somerset was overthrown in October , and power passed to those who had opposed the war ; his successor , John Dudley , earl of Warwick , was only recognizing the inevitable when he gave up Boulogne at the same time as peace was made with Scotland in March 1550 , when the last stronghold held by the English , Lauder , capitulated . |
| 4 | The actual founding of the town is obscure , but it was well established as part of the Royal hunting lodge before 1066 and so has no separate entry in the Domesday Book , since Snaith was a royal manor held by the King ‘ for the support of his table ’ , and therefore already documented . |
| 5 | The infra-red remote control is unique to this machine , and the only other way to get into it is via a master key held by the system supervisor . |
| 6 | This may be shown by comparing two passages concerning one particular concept of honour held by the navy in the period concerned . |
| 7 | A nationwide network offering advice to professional women on a range of issues , from sexual harassment in the workplace to setting up childcare arrangements , was one of a number of imaginative proposals to emerge from Workplace 2000 , a lunchtime meeting held by the Institute last month . |
| 8 | The degree of skill will vary according to the post held by the doctor , rather than the experience of the individual . |
| 9 | Royal licences to quarry stones , or to cut down and sell timber in the woods of subjects , or to bring such woods into cultivation , or to pasture cattle therein , were frequently preceded by such an inquiry held by the Justice of the Forest or his deputy . |
| 10 | Banks ' daily holdings of cash fluctuate as a result of transactions between the government and the public ; bank cash held by the discount houses is used to smooth out these fluctuations . |
| 11 | At the July 1993 conference held by the Library of Congress on Delivering Electronic Information in a Knowledge-Based Democracy , participants conceded that the proliferation of an ‘ advanced information infrastructure ’ and the growing quantity of ‘ dynamic knowledge ’ would alter the traditional nature of the library . |
| 12 | He is seen on his knees whilst God shatters the wall held by the defending Moslem forces . |
| 13 | Anne and I went to an information last week held by the Archbishop . |
| 14 | Blanked out from the copy of the score shown in illus.4 presumably in the 1790s was a fleur-de-lys held by the cupid . |
| 15 | Whilst there is no cover for these items under the Policy there may be cover under a Home or Sports Policy held by the Corporation and it is advisable to check wherever such cover exists before finally declining claims on these items . |
| 16 | UN officials and journalists based in Kenya claimed that a Sudanese government Antonov transport plane made inaccurately aimed bombing raids on May 30-June 2 on the Jekou and Akobo , where about 65,000 refugees had congregated and which were in territory held by the rebel Sudan People 's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) ; one casualty was reported . |
| 17 | By Sept. 7 an invading force from Sierra Leone was said to have pushed deep into Liberian territory held by the rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , amid reports of heavy fighting . |
| 18 | The task took some considerable time as each bone was labelled according to a blueprint held by the archaeologist . |
| 19 | In a ‘ Keep Doing It With Wispa ’ competition held by the chocolate manufacturers the nomination of the school was chosen as a winner , resulting in the delivery of over 800 Wispa bars . |
| 20 | The director of the National Museum in Poznan , Professor Konstanty Kalinowski , has agreed to return all his pictures and furniture held by the museum . |
| 21 | We will introduce statutory time limits for answers by local authorities to standard inquiries by house-buyers , and explore the idea of a new computerised Property Data Bank bringing together information held by the Land Registry and other public bodies . |
| 22 | We believe that the public should have access to information held by the pollution control authorities . |
| 23 | The following examples are from the database held by the World Travel & Tourism Environmental Research Centre , Oxford Brookes University : |
| 24 | The repertoire of transactions in which teachers engage their pupils when teaching X depends , among other things , on the nature of X and on the mental picture of the pupils ' developmental path held by the teacher ; the teaching will presumably be , in the teacher s eyes , consistent with these factors and at some levels , demonstratively effective . |
| 25 | At a hearing held by the Commission in November 1991 , the majority of national experts agreed that there should be a threshold ranging from ECU150 to 1,000 ( £107-£714 ; $186–$1240 ) . |
| 26 | The President 's choice to succeed Mr Frohnmayer must be confirmed by the Subcommittee on Education , Arts and the Humanities , then pass a hearing held by the Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources , before going on to a Senate vote . |
| 27 | Lord Bellomont 's position as Governor in New York , Massachusetts , and New Hampshire , and military commander in Connecticut , Rhode Island , and New Jersey was similar enough to the position held by the Governor of the Dominion of New England to show that unification was not just an eccentric idea launched by James II . |
| 28 | If the dispute is over the value of the security for the debt held by the creditor , the court may require the creditor to revalue his security for the purposes only of the demand . |
| 29 | Of the subsidiary grants , Gloucester lost all but the de la Laund estates , although this grant was widened to include the reversion of the land held by the knight 's widow Katherine Tempest . |
| 30 | Of the subsidiary grants , Gloucester lost all but the de la Laund estates , although this grant was widened to include the reversion of the land held by the knight 's widow Katherine Tempest . |