Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] [was/were] [adv] held " in BNC.
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| 1 | However often he and his ministers warned the population not to expect an overnight return to prewar prosperity , the head of the government was naturally held accountable for the persistence of food and fuel shortages , black marketeering , and bread rationing . |
| 2 | The election of a Captain was again held over and the office remained vacant for a further year . |
| 3 | The king and his judges were already acting on the assumption that all ecclesiastical endowments within the realm were originally held by and from the crown , to which they should therefore revert if and when a church failed of its purpose . |
| 4 | Apart from that somewhat exceptional period , in which members of these magnates ' entourages were rewarded with Gascon pos-itions , the great majority of local offices in the administration were tena-ciously held by the Gascon nobility . |
| 5 | The higher administrative posts in the colony were usually held by members of the civil service , but the top judicial positions were normally filled from the professional bar . |
| 6 | Some 60,000 people across the country were also held , he added . |
| 7 | Money paid by a citizen to a public authority in the form of taxes or other levies paid pursuant to an ultra vires demand by the authority was therefore held to be prima facie recoverable by the citizen as of right . |