Example sentences of "[adv] hold office [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wardens of a number of royal forests — including Windsor , Clarendon , Feckenham , Galtres , the Forest of Dean and the Forest of the Peak in Derbyshire — were appointed by royal letters patent , usually to hold office during the king 's pleasure , but sometimes for a term of years , and exceptionally , as a special mark of royal favour , for life . |
| 2 | Morgan came from a family of professional administrators who took their regional colouring from the location of their service , but the family came originally from Wales and one of Morgan 's uncles , Owain ap Cadwgan , still held office in the lordship which gave the Anglicized members of the family their surname . |
| 3 | Morgan came from a family of professional administrators who took their regional colouring from the location of their service , but the family came originally from Wales and one of Morgan 's uncles , Owain ap Cadwgan , still held office in the lordship which gave the Anglicized members of the family their surname . |
| 4 | The poet Vodnik , once a Franciscan friar , even held office in the administration of the Illyrian Provinces in Carinthia between 1809 and 1813 . |
| 5 | Both had been active in the 1976 movement of dissent , and Wang had subsequently held office in the Communist Party . |