Example sentences of "[adj] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Further details were provided at a press conference on Aug. 21 held by the Russian Federation State Committee for the Management of State Property , the body managing the privatization scheme . |
| 32 | This callous view of suffering which smacks strongly of the protestant ethic ( epitomized in the complacent exhortation : God helps those who help themselves ) has a very familiar ring and is clearly seen today in the attitudes towards the mentally ill held by all but the most enlightened members of western societies . |
| 33 | Royal Insurance has put out a hefty cash call , asking shareholders to stump up £404m by subscribing for one new share for every three held at 255p . |
| 34 | Consequently , there are 14 large jars of preserved eyeballs here , each holding between 50–150 eyes in each jar . |
| 35 | The provincial grounds all hold between 40–50,000. a lot of improvements to the country 's infrastructure — transport , TV , telecommunications — were made for the Soccer World Cup in 1978 . |
| 36 | It is useful to hold at least two prints of all black and white negatives and to re-order as these are sent out , and to keep black and white and colour libraries separate . |
| 37 | The binoculars should be powerful enough for you to see what you want but not so bulky that you find them too heavy and awkward to hold for any length of time . |
| 38 | The Government is believed to be reluctant to push rates any higher , but City analysts predicted it would act if pressure on sterling became too great to hold with intervention alone . |
| 39 | photographic slides — both private and official ( the latter held for current research or teaching purposes ) . |
| 40 | At the Communist world conference in 1957 held in post-Sputnik euphoria , Mao Tse-tung declared that the East wind was prevailing over the West wind and that nuclear war would mean the end of capitalism but not of communism : if 300 million Chinese were killed , there would still be 300 million left alive . |
| 41 | The Institute offered examinations in 32 subjects in 1992 held in 994 centres in the UK and 525 overseas . |
| 42 | It is , er it being a modern book as I say , completely new , it 's , it 's , it 's part of the desk top publishing sort of revolution , so the actual data base is , is all held on computer , on a magnetic tape and is actually much bigger than this single volume book . |
| 43 | At Woodhead ( Great Casterton ) all held by lease or at will , and again only seven out of twenty-six can be traced in 1522 ; the two non-resident freeholders were disregarded . |
| 44 | Mr J. C. Sainty 's analysis of posts in the Exchequer shows that in the fourteenth century the important offices of Chancellor , King 's Chamberlain , and King 's Remembrancer were all held by their clerical occupants during the King 's pleasure or during good behaviour . |
| 45 | There the middling positions , engine-drivers and mechanics , clerks , station-masters at the medium-sized stations , were all held by Anglo-Indian people of mixed race . |
| 46 | The magnificent sculpture collections of the 19C are all held in the Castle of Zbraslav ( see p.181 ) . |
| 47 | They were all held in the grand hall . |
| 48 | At 2.00 a.m. eleven houses in Railton Road were raided by 176 police-officers , with a further 391 held in reserve . |
| 49 | It is said that Scotland should content herself with arrangements similar to those holding for Bavaria or Catalonia or Flanders . |
| 50 | The limited amount of discussion that members of the Working Party were able to hold with colleagues suggested a certain defensiveness . |
| 51 | 86 held in raid . |
| 52 | As an example , Figure 2.7 shows the value 6.25 held in floating-point format with base 2 in a 16-bit word , divided into 10 bits for the fraction and 6 bits for the exponent . |
| 53 | Some 3,500 jobs are directly at stake , along with many more held by employees of hundreds of other supply companies with whom Leyland Daf does business . |
| 54 | Among the hundreds of those held without charge or trial in Syria are the following who have appeared in the Letter Writing Campaign : Hakem Sultan al-Faiz , a 61-year-old Jordanian national and former member of the National Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'th Party , who has been held for almost 20 years ; Ahmad ‘ Abd al-Rau'uf Roummou , a 55-year-old teacher , arrested in 1975 ; Muhammad Nabil Salem , an engineer , arrested in the wake of a one-day national strike in 1980 and Mahmud Jalbut , a Palestinian arrested in 1980 . |
| 55 | A variety of opinions was expressed in Committee , and at the end of our debates some of the opinions were slightly different from those held at the start of our Committee proceedings . |
| 56 | In the first study we were able to show that clients treated in either mode were significantly less depressed at the end of treatment than those held on a waiting list for the same length of time ( Scott and Stradling , 1990 ) , and that this reduction in symptoms was maintained for up to 12 months post treatment — see Figure 3 . |
| 57 | Some of those held on remand will be found not guilty and a significant proportion do not receive custodial sentences when their case is finally heard — points not lost on the government , which is investing in additional bail hostels , special bail information schemes run by the probation service and , more controversially , pilot schemes malting use of electronic ‘ tagging ’ equipment ; these are all ways , it is hoped , to reduce what many see as an unnecessary and wasteful use of prison resources . |
| 58 | Among the largest demonstrations were those held on Jan. 12 when almost 200,000 attended marches in 70 cities , on Jan. 13 when 250,000 demonstrated in 120 cities ( including 7,000 at the US air base near Frankfurt and 50,000-100,000 in Berlin ) , and on Jan. 26 when 200,000 protested in Bonn . |
| 59 | Teaching and lecturing staff rarely have the time needed to identify , obtain , understand and analyse complex datasets such as those held on the Data Archive . |
| 60 | How do you know that your perceptions of the school match those held by others ? |