Example sentences of "[adv] [be] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He next bestowed on his favourites all those offices that had hitherto been held by the Woodvilles , thus weakening their position and strengthening his own . |
| 2 | The strong showing by the FN in the Lyon by-elections followed a surge in support for the extreme right at a municipal election on Jan. 20 and 27 in the Paris suburb of Clichy-sous-Bois , where the mayoralty had hitherto been held by the Communist Party ( PCF ) . |
| 3 | Physics has long been held as the most successful of the sciences . |
| 4 | It had long been held as a general axiom — quite incorrectly , as Catalonian experience showed — that entail caused a régime of short , unstable leases and once again stood at the head of the estorbos , the impediments to progress . |
| 5 | The belief -that unemployment increases both crime and the prison population independently as well as directly has long been held by criminologists of different persuasions . |
| 6 | The Yorkshire land had all been held by Clarence and the scale of the alienations made in exchange suggests that Gloucester set considerable store by its acquisition . |
| 7 | The Yorkshire land had all been held by Clarence and the scale of the alienations made in exchange suggests that Gloucester set considerable store by its acquisition . |
| 8 | In this case your details will only be held on the confidential Register . |
| 9 | The detail in a close-up can often be assimilated in a flash , and most need only be held for two or three seconds unless the subject happens to be a ‘ talking head ’ , in which case the sound governs the editing rather than the picture . |
| 10 | The Eddie Aikau denoted a big-wave contest of a kind that could only be held in Hawaii . |
| 11 | Foreign language examinations will ONLY be held in the Spring . ) |
| 12 | The legal title to freehold or leasehold premises can only be held by a maximum of four persons . |
| 13 | In M & S Drapers v Reynolds [ 1957 ] 1 WLR 9 Morris LJ said " I do not consider that a restriction … would necessarily be held to be unreasonable merely because it could be shown possibly to extend to one or two cases beyond the range of contemplated protection " . |
| 14 | Will he take steps to have that issue ventilated in a multi-question referendum of the people , which could perhaps be held in harmony with the general election ? |
| 15 | The residual plutonium is apparently being held in the form of highly radioactive waste . |
| 16 | Some examples from the pre-reformation period , such as the magnificent George Inn at Norton St. Philip , Somerset , originally constructed in the 14th century , were established by monasteries for pilgrims and travellers ; but after the dissolutions of the 1530s all were held in secular hands and subsequently catered for the increasing number of road travellers in the 16th century and the stage coach trade that first appeared in the early 17th century . |
| 17 | On Sunday 8 September 1560 , a mop fair was held at nearby Abingdon . |
| 18 | The indoor events had generally been held in the village hall but this had to be booked in advance , so the sudden change involved trying to push upwards of 500 dripping wet people into Greenside Church , a building designed for 300 . |
| 19 | Preliminary talks have already been held with John Ayling & Associates , CIA/Billett , Hoare Wilkins and Young & Rubicam . |
| 20 | A meeting has already been held with the Government 's new Environment Minister , David Maclean . |
| 21 | In the US , by contrast , the mixing of banking and securities related business has largely been held in check by the Glass-Steagall Act 1933 . |
| 22 | By 4 January 1927 , the full force of Nizan 's anger , repressed for so many years , could no longer be held in check : The effect of the solitude at Aden is that I am storing up a violence that was unknown to me … |
| 23 | However , this is not the end of the matter for the scope of this withdrawal of immunity is limited by the remainder of section 17 , which provides three routes through which secondary action may finally be held to be not unlawful . |
| 24 | Of all of the appointments which might easily be held by a resident freeholder , none was more attractive to many gentlemen than the post of collector of supply . |
| 25 | But the court has not always been held in breathless reverence . |
| 26 | Despite the divisions between Catholic and Protestant in cities such as Glasgow the Salvation Army have always been held in affection in Scotland . |
| 27 | Universities have hardly ever been held in lower esteem . |
| 28 | Despite a series of drug disasters no public inquiry has ever been held in Britain . |
| 29 | This difference is all the more complete in that different rights in the same thing or place may be and usually are held by different people or different groups of people in those societies . |
| 30 | There is no direct evidence for Angoulême but we know that in 1199 Count Ademar was still trying to recover lands which had once been held by his father Count William and 1176–7 is the most likely date for their confiscation by the Angevins . |