Example sentences of "hold [prep] the great " in BNC.

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1 did before or after the events we are told of in the tales , and this holds for the great majority of the fabliaux .
2 The second Self Build Homes Show is being held in the Great Hall at Alexandra Palace , from 18 to 22 September .
3 Held in the Great Hall at the hospital , clothes were supplied by Top Man and Top Shop and all models were friends and associates of the Headjogs team who , of course , did the hair .
4 Concert to be held in the Great Hall on third of November .
5 He was a main contributor to the photographic exhibition held in the Great Room of the Society of Arts in London in 1852 , which was the first of its kind .
6 In the United States , the Supreme Court held in the great case of The New York Times v Sullivan that no libel action could succeed if the plaintiff was a public figure and the allegation was honestly and diligently made .
7 Typical of his account is the picture he gives of the festival held at the great Sufi shrine of the Qadam Sharif , which sheltered the supposed Footprint of the Holy Prophet .
8 The principal Forest offices were held by the great barons as life appointments .
9 Professor Charles Wilson views the effects of the Bubble as " salutary " , but considers that the taking over of so much of the South Sea Company 's excess stock by the Bank of England and East India Company perpetuated into the 1730s the situation in which more than half of the national debt was held by the great corporations .
10 At periods of crisis , lieutenancies were held by the greater English magnates — Edmund of Lancaster in 1295–6 or Henry de Lacy , earl of Lincoln , in 1296–9 and 1303–5 .
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