Example sentences of "[vb past] been hold by " in BNC.
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| 1 | The manager had been held by the Portuguese , but when Bill Baldwin took charge of him the local population , including the Chinese , knew that the Australians intended to continue the war preferring to he the hunters rather than the hunted . |
| 2 | Colonel Lin Foh had no idea of the contempt with which he , and his fallen Government , had been held by the British Government itself . |
| 3 | UNITA complained that the government amnesty fell outside the legal framework of the agreement and some released prisoners who had been held by UNITA alleged that other prisoners had been forced to remain in Jamba , UNITA 's headquarters in southeastern Angola . |
| 4 | Lancaster 's objections to the regime , however , were concerned just as much with domestic affairs : he criticized the queen for her greed and acquisitiveness , singling out for special mention her appropriation of the lordship of Pontefract which had been held by Earl Thomas in right of his wife , He complained that the treasure left by Edward II had been ‘ wastede and born away withouten the wille of Kyng Edwarde his sone , in destruccioun of him and of his folk ’ , and proposed that Mortimer ‘ shouldd dwelle oppon his owen landes ’ . |
| 5 | Chirk had been held by Gloucester and although it is not stated in the grant the king was evidently promoting , or at least sanctioning , an exchange of interests . |
| 6 | It had been held by the Trial Division that the trust territory is not a separate legal entity but forms part of the Executive Department of the United States , and that the Trusteeship Agreement did not create a trust enforceable in the courts of equity . |
| 7 | Unlike these cherished Angevin possessions , however , Clairvaux had been held by relatively unimportant vassals and by the 1130s they seem to have become more closely attached to the Viscounts of Châtellerault . |
| 8 | The question whether certain moneys had been held by the respondent in the relevant capacity was referred under section 15 of the Act to the minister , who decided on 18 September 1958 that it was . |
| 9 | For the past fourteen years Lij Yasu had been held by Ras Kassa in comfortable detention at Fiche . |
| 10 | The Chambly seat had been held by a member of the ruling Progressive Conservative Party ( PCP ) who had resigned after pleading guilty to charges of fraud . |
| 11 | The post had been held by the President since the overthrow of Ahmed Ben Bella in June 1965 . |
| 12 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) confirmed on Feb. 21 that four of its representatives had been held by a faction of the mujaheddin , reported to be the Hezb-e-Islami ( led by Hekmatyar ) , since Jan. 12 . |
| 13 | This portfolio had been held by Prime Minister Charles Haughey since October 1990 , when he dismissed Brian Lenihan ( whose successor as Deputy Prime Minister was John Wilson — see p. 37868 ) . |
| 14 | Heinrich Strübig , 51 , and Thomas Kemptner , 30 , had been held by a group led by Abdel-Hadi Hamadei , a member of the Hezbollah leadership . |
| 15 | Responsibility for Foreign Affairs had been held by Mitsotakis himself since April , when he dismissed Antonis Samaras [ see p. 38873 ] . |
| 16 | Both the rump of the Takeshita faction , led by Obuchi , and the new Hata-Ozawa faction , consisting of around 44 of the Takeshita faction 's 109 Diet members , were represented within the new Miyazawa administration , but together they controlled fewer and less important portfolios than had been held by the Takeshita faction prior to the reshuffle . |
| 17 | Chirk had been held by Gloucester and although it is not stated in the grant the king was evidently promoting , or at least sanctioning , an exchange of interests . |
| 18 | As king , Gundovald proceeded to take oaths of loyalty from those civitates which had been held by Chilperic , as well as those still subject to Guntram . |
| 19 | This seat , which had been held by John Wheatley was an ILP stronghold and McGovern was elected as an unendorsed candidate . |
| 20 | Mr Roberts said Sarbutts had been held by police on a minor offence in October , 1988 , when police were still searching for Mr Galvin 's killer . |
| 21 | The Paddy Hancox-trained flyer led from the first flight to win by three lengths in 31.06 secs , clipping an astonishing 27 spots off the record , which had been held by Brough Park 's Jenks Challenger . |