Example sentences of "have held [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 That is why we feel justified in saying that Realism has held sway for the last forty years .
2 Formerly with the Foreign and Commonwealth Office , he has held posts at the British Embassy in Madrid and the Western European department , Whitehall .
3 The current President , Fidel Castro Ruz , has held office since the socialist revolution of January 1959 .
4 Additionally , the peasants would have held lands in the common fields .
5 Further research revealed that in 1414/15 an Andrew Forshey had been chosen as one of two men to represent the borough in parliament , and it seemed sensible to hazard that a man of this standing would have held property in the area , for he would have been unlikely to have been elected by his fellow bailiffs , with the assent of the whole community , if he had not been of substantial material worth .
6 There is no restriction on age , but nominees must not hold or have held professorships in the British Isles .
7 Thus Gloucester 's possession of Chesham ( Bucks. ) gave him the service of the Wedons , who had held land in the manor since the thirteenth century and who acted as his bailiffs there .
8 Thus Gloucester 's possession of Chesham ( Bucks. ) gave him the service of the Wedons , who had held land in the manor since the thirteenth century and who acted as his bailiffs there .
9 Something about an Iron Casket that had held secrets of the Ancient Past …
10 He had held sway at the College for 45 years , for 40 of which he had been assisted by his faithful subordinate William Sewell who now , at the age of 58 , was to succeed his master as Professor .
11 This shift went well beyond the general decline of the traditional working class in the electorate ( discussed below ) and reflected the increasing selection of ‘ more educated candidates ’ with ‘ administrative aptitudes ’ under the conditions of electoral competition , and within the dominant technocratic conception of politics , which had held sway since the rise of ‘ Butskellism ’ in the mid '50s .
12 An ECOWAS delegation had held talks with the Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi , in Tripoli on Nov. 21 .
13 ( On Feb. 4 the permanent representative of Zimbabwe , the holder of the Security Council presidency for February , had held talks with the 14 other members to explore their views on the Gulf war . )
14 Some of the practices of the colonial state were re-introduced , including corporal punishment , and some of those elected to village councils were rejected on the grounds that they had held positions under the previous regime .
15 He said in Tunis that Egypt had held consultations with the PLO before officially accepting the Baker plan .
16 He said in Tunis that Egypt had held consultations with the PLO before officially accepting the Baker plan .
17 Exempted from the new regulations were people who had held citizenship of the pre-1940 independent Estonia and their descendants .
18 He was a keen supporter of the BDDA and before being elected Chairman had held office on the executive since 1951 and as Vice-chairman since 1960 .
19 It looked so simple , so pure , yet it had held terrors for the Ralembergs and would be the beginning of fresh horrors for me .
20 Carlos Manuel Castillo , 61 , an economist representing the social democratic National Liberation Party ( PLN ) which had held power for the past eight years , came second with 47.3 per cent .
21 They have held meetings during the past week with potential recruits , although who will take over the chair is not clear .
22 Detectives who carried out a raid at an exclusive house at Coatham Mundeville , near Darlington , have held talks with the Crown Prosecution Service which is now considering the content of a number of articles seized .
23 You have been Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge for eleven years and since the mid-Sixties you have held posts at the Universities of Sheffield and Southampton .
24 I have held posts in the north of England , East Anglia , and the west of Scotland and have gained a strong clinical impression of wide regional variations in many conditions of the respiratory tract .
25 The common aim is to found a Second Republic and to reduce or eliminate the power of the political cliques who have held sway since the fall of fascism .
26 Although the Chinese have held jade in the highest regard for a matter of five thousand years and carried its symbolic use to levels of sophistication far beyond that of other peoples , no natural deposits are yet known from within the ancient limits of their country .
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