Example sentences of "is held [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is held over the blocked plug hole and worked up and down several times to force water down the waste pipe . |
| 2 | The new " Ring " , however , still stages major races and a round the world sports car championship is held over the famous circuit to maintain the long association with one of motor racing 's most forbidding and famous circuits . |
| 3 | It also has a magnificent wine cellar , with around 3000 bottles , stored in cupboards which have the temperature controlled by computer to ensure that every variety is held at the correct level . |
| 4 | Seat belt ‘ lock off ’ guide ensures the seat belt is held at the correct position . |
| 5 | In many areas the Hearing is held on the first working day after the removal of the child . |
| 6 | If the overflow record is held on the same cylinder as the prime data there will be an average wait of half a revolution to refer to the overflow record . |
| 7 | I turn now to the information that is held on the national computer about which the hon. Gentleman asked a number of questions . |
| 8 | The ATP molecule is held in the right place by the enzyme which is catalysing the reaction . |
| 9 | He is held in the highest esteem by all who know him . |
| 10 | The Cowal Highland Gathering , celebrating its centenary this year , is held in the picturesque town of Dunoon on the bands of the Clyde . |
| 11 | Climbing steep snow in a series of zigzags as in ( Fig. 2b ) , the axe is held in the uphill hand and the rope goes on the downhill side direct to the next person on the rope . |
| 12 | Implicit information is held in the organisational memory ( for example , the description of office routine ) and is rarely recorded or preserved . |
| 13 | A piece of stone is held in the cupped palm of the hand and hewn with a special hammer ( ‘ camartelo ’ ) into the required shape . |
| 14 | Legislative authority is held by the bicameral Congress , comprising a 27-member Senate and a 130-member Chamber of Deputies , both elected for a four-year term by universal adult suffrage . |
| 15 | One copy of each policy is held by the Personal Manager of your Branch should you need to consult an actual policy rather than the wordings held in the Trove version . |
| 16 | In the first case , the conveyance should be prepared and executed in triplicate ( or there should be examined copies ) so that the original is held by the first mortgagee , the husband has a record of the indemnity and release given and the second mortgagee also has a record of the transfer . |
| 17 | A Microsoft Corp staffer is reported to have told Sun Microsystems Inc that Microsoft would make Windows such a moving target that Sun , with its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface , could not keep up ( CI No 2,147 ) : if the tale is true and Microsoft means it , it means that the company has learned a little too well from its long cohabitation with IBM , and that the seeds of its own destruction are now being sown — for years , IBM added features and tweaked its mainframes with no thought of improving them from the user 's point of view , but simply to trip up competitors , and once a dominant company starts resorting to such tactics , it fatally injures the regard with which it is held by the outside world , and is embarking on the slippery slope that leads to the debacle IBM finds itself in today . |
| 18 | First , they enable you to ‘ gather ’ the knitting in , second , the ribber comb is held by the gathered thread row — this row is eventually pulled through and does n't form a permanent part of the welt. the second row to be knitting is , when the hem is finished , the first row of the welt . |
| 19 | In the current controversy over Croagh Patrick , the deciding interest is held by the Finnish mining multinational Ooutukumpu , a company which also controls the Navan operation of Tara Mines . |
| 20 | The license is held by the local vicar , and part of the pub 's profits will go towards his church 's restoration fund . |
| 21 | Suppose now that it lends 90 per cent of that deposit in sterling to a UK resident who spends it in such a way that it is redeposited with the UK bank ; also that the remaining 10 per cent is held by the overseas bank as an interest-bearing sterling deposit with the UK bank . |
| 22 | Mr Ashdown must now pin his hopes on efforts to target vulnerable Tory seats , such as Bath , which is held by the Tory chairman , Mr Patten . |