Example sentences of "the [noun sg] held [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The profit and loss account shows the increase or decrease in the money held over the year . |
2 | I therefore became very clearly aware of the potential that the university held for the whole of the East Sussex area . |
3 | There is , therefore , a coincidence between lived reality and the construct held in the mind ; unlike the Military Model which constructs reality in terms of the metaphor . |
4 | At Gloucester in July 1634 the judges ' proceedings were based partly upon the 800 presentments made at the swanimote held in the Forest of Dean in the previous month : 420 of these for unlawfully cutting and selling woods , 260 for illegal inclosures and other encroachments , 80 for taking the king 's game and 10 for unauthorized operation of ironworks . |
5 | The degree of skill will vary according to the post held by the doctor , rather than the experience of the individual . |
6 | The circus held on the field near the old school . |
7 | He is seen on his knees whilst God shatters the wall held by the defending Moslem forces . |
8 | They are sometimes operated by the bass-drum player , one cymbal being strapped to the drum , the other held in the player 's left hand , while he beats the drum with a drum-stick held in his right hand . |
9 | The selection held at the moment by reception is limited to syllabus books , but putting out as much as possible on display would be beneficial . |
10 | Also , more rarely , the wall of a vessel while in a plastic condition was gently pushed into the mould held against the surface . |
11 | If the asset was not depreciating , such as a piece of land , then this capital discharged would reflect an historic cost measure of the capital that the authority held in the land . |
12 | Jack Millar , Stoddard Templeton 's Sales Administration Director , accepted the award at a special reception at the exhibition held in the Galleon Bar of the Winter Gardens . |
13 | Paddy turned with the host held above the chalice in his hand , to see most of his family gathered along the altar-rail . |
14 | Once the Knights had made their challenges ready for the tourney held at the end of the show and the demonstrations of dancing , archery and squire practice had started I wandered off outside the arena to demonstrate spinning with a drop spindle . |
15 | examine the implications of the proposed change and consider any alternatives , such as changes to the information held on the computer or changes to manual procedures |
16 | Handling the information held in the system is more important than handling the system , for the system is merely a means to an end . |
17 | Most of the current generation of spreadsheets provide a facility for creating graphs and charts based on the information held in the model . |
18 | The silence held for a while and then she heard a low laugh that seemed to trace itself right down her spine too . |
19 | Generally , a broad-band radio receiver works best with the receiver held in the air , with the signal fading away when the aerial is brought near the ground . |
20 | The following examples are from the database held by the World Travel & Tourism Environmental Research Centre , Oxford Brookes University : |
21 | She finished her ladling and pushed the plate of mutton stew and dumplings towards Agnes ; then , the ladle held above the casserole dish , she was about to dip it in again when Agnes said in an offhand manner , ‘ What a pity you are n't a widow , Mother , you could have had dear Henry yourself . ’ |
22 | The sum was raised in various ways : by donations from members of the public and exhibiting retailers at the Company 's ‘ Craft , Embroidery & Fashion ’ event held at Harrogate in November 1991 ; from advance ticket sales through Needlecraft magazine and from the raffle held at the show , which was generously supported by large numbers of people . |
23 | Of the subsidiary grants , Gloucester lost all but the de la Laund estates , although this grant was widened to include the reversion of the land held by the knight 's widow Katherine Tempest . |
24 | Of the subsidiary grants , Gloucester lost all but the de la Laund estates , although this grant was widened to include the reversion of the land held by the knight 's widow Katherine Tempest . |
25 | Lord Bellomont 's position as Governor in New York , Massachusetts , and New Hampshire , and military commander in Connecticut , Rhode Island , and New Jersey was similar enough to the position held by the Governor of the Dominion of New England to show that unification was not just an eccentric idea launched by James II . |
26 | If the dispute is over the value of the security for the debt held by the creditor , the court may require the creditor to revalue his security for the purposes only of the demand . |
27 | It was light as filigree in his hand , the heel held to the shoe only by one fragment of cleanly cut leather . |
28 | This was the origin of the office held by the king 's ordinary representative in the duchy or Aquitaine until 1453 . |
29 | By controlling the value held in the index register , we can make the add instruction refer to a different element each time it is executed . |
30 | In this example we initialize the index register to zero and , on each iteration of the loop , we add one to the value held by the index register before executing the add instruction . |