Example sentences of "[det] [was/were] held [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The keys for this were held by only three people — the works manager , the general manager , and the chief maintenance engineer . |
| 2 | A variety of courses was evaluated ; some were held for one evening a week for a term ; others were one-week full time ; some were award-bearing , others were not . |
| 3 | This was held at St. Andrew 's Hall on the 19th , 20th and 21st of November 1891 , and opened by the Duchess of Montrose whose son was ironically soon to become totally deaf . |
| 4 | This was held at The Community College , Bishop 's Castle at 7.30 p.m. on Friday , 3 November 1989 and was attended by 33 members . |
| 5 | In so far as any thought was given to the curriculum , this was held to be a matter for expert ‘ curriculum designers ’ who spoke in a language all their own , and seldom impinged on the consciousness of the public . |
| 6 | This was held to be the case in Mantovani v. |
| 7 | This was held to be incorrect , but irrelevant ; incorrect , because a mere sense of alarm was insufficient to give rise to a fear of a breach of the peace , and irrelevant because the justices had found ( or there was evidence from which they could have found ) that the constables reasonably believed that the defendant 's own behaviour was likely to constitute a breach of the peace . |
| 8 | This was held to be so by the Court of Appeal in Newtons of Wembley v. Williams . |
| 9 | This was held to be the wrong approach by the House of Lords . |
| 10 | This was held to be trespass to land . |
| 11 | This was held to be a mistake sufficient to overturn the decision . |
| 12 | This was held to be reasonable during employment but was construed as being too wide post employment as it would prevent the defendant becoming a medical officer of health in which capacity he could not prejudice the plaintiff 's goodwill . |
| 13 | This was held for an unexpired term of six years ‘ from Christmas last ’ at £140 per annum ; it was offered ( fortunately unsuccessfully ) by the new proprietor , Mr Collier , for £600 . |
| 14 | This was held on 17 November 1933 , women voting for the first time . |
| 15 | This was held on 16 February 1936 and for the first time in the history of the Second Republic involved an evenly matched contest between large , cohesive left- and right-wing alliances ; the Radical Party virtually disappeared as a significant force , leaving the political centre effectively unrepresented . |
| 16 | This was held on 10 October . |
| 17 | In a war for the nation 's life this was held by external authorities to be provocative . |
| 18 | This was held by the female clerk as one would hold out a photographic negative , saying , ‘ That number will put you in touch with the one you require . ’ |
| 19 | This was held by Salmon J. in Mount v. Jay & Jay Ltd. ( 1959 Q.B. ) where the buyers wrote their own delivery order which they sent off to the sub-purchaser . |
| 20 | The Greens held one portfolio , that of Health ; this was held by Bozidar Voljc who had been in the Cabinet since January 1992 . |
| 21 | This was held in place by a groove in the bottom of the door jamb which projected slightly for the purpose . |
| 22 | This was held in Harrogate . |
| 23 | A letter had been received from E. Coleman , surgeon , of Palsgrave Place , Temple , but this was held in abeyance until 7 January 1794 , A week later , Clark of Edinburgh , who had been offered the post of professor , was asked to make his mind up , whereupon he declined the appointment . |
| 24 | Such was held to be the case in Sebel Products Ltd. v. Commissioners of Customs and Excise [ 1949 ] Ch. 409 ( although the legal basis upon which Vaisey J. there inferred the existence of such an agreement may be open to criticism ) . |
| 25 | These were held on Tuesdays at a centre where the manageress and her staff took the view that ‘ idle hands make idle minds ’ . |
| 26 | These were held on the road outside the inn and the distances were : one mile , a half and a quarter of a mile . |
| 27 | Between 1765 and 1767 these were held at Carlisle House , Soho Square , and were organized by the impresario Teresa Cornelys . |
| 28 | Co-incidentally these were held at the Birmingham Indoor Arena , the set of the TV programme ‘ The Gladiators ’ . |
| 29 | After Cecil abandoned his ministerial career in 1927 there were moves towards a more campaigning stance , but these were held in check by the overriding need to retain the Union 's Conservative supporters and , with them , its non-partisan character . |
| 30 | These were held in belated recognition that the entirely private exercise last time had given the public not even a token opportunity to comment on the various applicants . |