Example sentences of "[was/were] held [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A number of short seminars were held during the year and these were well supported . |
| 2 | Three such meetings were held during the course of 1960 . |
| 3 | Throughout 1992 meetings were held across the country for representatives of industry and colleges to discuss the implications of the new framework . |
| 4 | PARISHIONERS and clergy looked back at the past year on Sunday when Headley 's annual vestry and parish meetings were held at the Church Centre . |
| 5 | Potter 's bid for martyrdom came at twenty-five-foot Waimea in the winter of '86‐7 when the early rounds of the Billabong Pro were held at the Bay . |
| 6 | The wedding receptions were held at the Crown Hotel in Varteg , Gwent , and Talywaun Rugby Club , Gwent . |
| 7 | This is a collection of strange bedfellows , but is an interesting reflection of the high esteem in which artists were held at the time . |
| 8 | During the week after their arrival , meetings were held with the State Senator , the Mayor of Penghu County , teachers , businessmen , students , and Buddhist priests . |
| 9 | Discussions were held with the government of Iran in May on the strengthening of bilateral ties . |
| 10 | Elections were held to the state parliaments in North Rhine-Westphalia and Lower Saxony on May 13 , involving 19,000,000 voters or two-fifths of the West German electorate . |
| 11 | In 799 the Franks took the Balearic Islands , which faced repeated attacks from Saracen fleets , but were held under the government of the Counts of Genoa and Tuscany . |
| 12 | Praetextatus of Rouen was tried at Paris in 577 , and Gregory himself at a gathering of bishops at the royal palace of Berny-Rivière in 580 : both these last trials were held under the aegis of Chilperic I. A year later the flight of Mummolus was discussed at Lyons . |
| 13 | Direct elections were held for the presidency , the vice-presidency and the National Assembly in October 1985 [ see pp. 34146-48 ] . |
| 14 | The second round of the ‘ adidas ’ Challenge tournaments , which were held over the Christmas period , gave a strong indication of the interest and popularity that they have with young players throughout the country . |
| 15 | As discussions were held on the formation of a government , deliberations were also taking place within Congress ( I ) on the issue of the next Prime Minister . |
| 16 | Festivities and worship-rites were held on the top which declined when the new faith arrived . |
| 17 | These were held on the road outside the inn and the distances were : one mile , a half and a quarter of a mile . |
| 18 | This year 's ITV Awards for Marketing ( co-sponsored by Marketing Week and the Marketing Society ) were held on the eve of last week 's poll-shocker . |
| 19 | A series of government investigations were held into the question of pensions and the conditions of the aged poor , in 1885–87 , 1895 , 1896 and 1899 . |
| 20 | There was an even larger turnout on May 14 when funeral marches for Kang were held in the capital and elsewhere . |
| 21 | The first Presbyterian services in Portadown were held in the basement of a building where the Ulster Bank now stands and then in 1822 the first church was built in Edenderry on the site where the lecture hall now stands . |
| 22 | From then on all legal powers , etc. , were held in the name of the Commission and not by the individual executives . |
| 23 | For the first since Burns Supper were held in the hall we had to cancel as two main speakers called off at a very late stage . |
| 24 | For the first since Burns Supper were held in the hall we had to cancel as two main speakers called off at a very late stage . |
| 25 | The sessions were held in the schoolroom and three nurses , in rippling saris , stood at the front of the room and demonstrated , with the use of pictures and a dummy , how intestinal worms and diseases are spread by eggs and germs that pass from one person 's faeces to another person 's mouth . |
| 26 | The entry of foreign forces into the Gulf swung public opinion strongly behind Iraq , and a number of pro-Iraqi demonstrations were held in the country during August , including a march organized by the ruling National Liberation Front ( FLN ) in Algiers on Aug. 15 . |
| 27 | These gatherings were held in the Church Institute and I did occasionally worry about the language . |
| 28 | Many of the current members and officials of the Nicaraguan government were held in the nation 's prisons prior to the revolution . |
| 29 | Although they were held in the shadow of the assassinations of President Ranasinghe Premadasa and an opposition leader , Lalith Athulathmudali , and in sharp contrast to the provincial elections held in 1988 , not a gun was fired . |
| 30 | Rehearsals were held in the Club 's premises at 136 Bree Street , a former gymnasium acquired and converted only a couple of years before . |