Example sentences of "have held [noun sg] [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 | The current President , Fidel Castro Ruz , has held office since the socialist revolution of January 1959 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Exempted from the new regulations were people who had held citizenship of the pre-1940 independent Estonia and their descendants . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |