Example sentences of "were hold by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His Secretaryship of the BDDA , undertaken simultaneously , established the precedent that the two principal official positions of the BDDA were held by a hearing and a deaf man respectively . |
| 2 | The principal Forest offices were held by the great barons as life appointments . |
| 3 | The practice will also apply where assets were held by the transferor on 31 March 1982 , unless actual consideration is given by the transferee . |
| 4 | Lawrence , a child of Water Orton , a suburban lacuna on the outskirts of Birmingham , spent the dreaded '80s as the leader of Felt , a semi-legendary indie pop outfit whose dearth of sales was inversely matched by the affection and wonky respect in which they were held by the choosier pop consumer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The remaining 27 seats were held by the International Movement , representing the Russian minority . |
| 17 | A quarter of the tenements were freehold ; the rest were held by the normal Shropshire tenure of leases for three lives , with a large entry fine and a nominal annual rent . |
| 18 | Revolutionary Policy Conferences were held by the Labour Monthly in 1933 , partly no doubt to increase Communist influence in the ILP at the expense of the RPC . |
| 19 | 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 . |