Example sentences of "[num] [be] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That of Orléans in 533 was held by royal order , ex praeceptione gloriosissimorum regum . |
| 2 | The first is that the effect of such an undertaking would be to impose an obligation on the council to indemnify Wickes against damage suffered by it , in the event of section 47 being held to be invalid as inconsistent with article 30 , irrespective of whether in such circumstances Wickes has a right to damages — i.e. , irrespective of whether the Bourgoin case is wrongly decided . |
| 3 | The ‘ Church and King ’ front however , now that Louis XVI was held in Paris ( and soon to lose his head ) , regarded the date with repugnance . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Scotland today stole a march over Australia who will be sectional rivals when the World Cup sevens are held in Edinburgh from April 16-18 . |
| 5 | Of the existing dozen letters passed between Chelsea and Kingsessing , 1755–1760 , nine are published in William Darlington 's Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall ( 1849 , 1967 ) and three are held by American Libraries . |
| 6 | Of the 33 Senate seats at stake in 1994 , 21 are held by Democrats . |
| 7 | Czechoslovakia 's first free and secret general election since 1946 was held on June 8-9 . |
| 8 | A rally to mark the founding of the CCP in 1921 was held on July 1 in Beijing . |
| 9 | The four meetings of the Council 's Executive in 1990/91 were held in Glenrothes , Dundee , Musselburgh and Falkirk . |
| 10 | Ten are held in city drug swoops |
| 11 | BRITISH children are believed to be among 160 being held in care today after being rescued from a religious sex cult in Argentina . |
| 12 | The already safe seat at Wandsworth was divided in 1918 into five safe seats ; Lewisham , Hammersmith and Fulham were each divided into two seats ; the number of seats in the outer London suburbs of Kent , Surrey , Essex and Middlesex went up from fifteen to forty , of which thirty-five were held by Unionists at every election before 1945 . |
| 13 | Among those jobs classified as Social Class 1 by the Registrar General at the 1981 Census , only one in ten was held by women . |
| 14 | This lovely fragment from a larger drinking-vessel , the kantharos ( one is held by Dionysos often , as in fig. 56 ) , shows how Kleitias 's elegant strength could be raised to monumental weight and power ; and it is this combination that marks the central tradition in Attic black-figure . |
| 15 | 8.8 If any sub-clause of this clause 8 is held to be invalid or unenforceable under any applicable statute or rule of law then it should be deemed to be omitted and if as a result either party becomes liable for loss or damage which would otherwise have been excluded then such liability shall be subject to the remaining sub-clauses of this clause 8 . |
| 16 | Of the 210 seats 128 were held by deputies belonging to the Latvian Popular Front [ see p. 37461 ] . |
| 17 | Iran had once seized American hostages , and was an enemy ; but the American hostages at issue in 1985 and 1986 were held in Lebanon by Hizbollah , a fanatical group merely sympathetic to Iran , and Iran 's good offices were necessary to deal with them . |
| 18 | The four meetings of the Council 's Executive in 1989/90 were held in Irvine , Aberdeen , New Lanark and Inverness . |
| 19 | The first trial under the Witchcraft Act of 1563 was held in Chelmsford in 1566 , when Agnes Waterhouse was hanged largely on the evidence of a small child . |
| 20 | An estimated 40,000 are held by it and other agencies , but since they are on paper , they fall outside the act . |
| 21 | The second general election since the overthrow of the Ceausescu regime in December 1989 were held on Sept. 27 [ for May 1990 elections see pp. 37441-37442 ] . |
| 22 | The first genuinely free elections since 1945 were held in March 1990 . |
| 23 | Three auctions were held between May 1987 and January 1988 and four were held during 1991 . |
| 24 | In the face of continued violence by armed bands the Army commander , Lt.-Col. Desi Bouterse , agreed to requests from Brunswijk for direct talks and a meeting between the two was held in Paramaribo on Dec. 19 . |
| 25 | The first multiparty general election since 1959 was held on May 12 , 1991 , and resulted in a victory for the Nepali Congress Party which went on to form a new government under Girija Prasad Koirala . |
| 26 | The first multiparty general election since 1959 was held in Nepal on May 12 [ for 1959 election see p. 16826 ] . |
| 27 | Bulgaria 's second general election since the fall of the communist administration in 1989 was held on Oct. 13 . |
| 28 | Demonstrations by tens of thousands were held in numerous other towns . |
| 29 | Several prominent black sportsmen followed Ali 's example and underwent conversion to the faith ( two world light-heavyweight titles in the 1980s were held by converts , Matthew Saad Muhammad and Eddie Mustapha Muhammad ) . |
| 30 | The first parliamentary elections in Jordan since 1967 were held on Nov. 8 , 1989 [ see pp. 37052-53 ] , when the Moslem Brotherhood won 20 of the 80 House of Representative seats , and independent fundamentalists won as many as 14 other seats . |