Example sentences of "[is] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruskin 's espousal of a craftsmanly aesthetics , Robinson points out , is grounded in Christian convictions about the humility proper to a fallen creature : lacking such grounds , Pound 's holding to the craftsmanly not only seems arbitrary and unargued , it is as often presumptuous as humble . |
| 2 | Four years ago , the whole of William Norman 's holding at Hardwicke near Gloucester was setaside … he was paid 28,000 pounds a year for not farming his land . |
| 3 | In March 1992 , the group 's holding in Clerkenwell Ltd was reduced to 55% by the sale of shares to the local management . |
| 4 | Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA has now sold a block of 5.6% of its ordinary shares to Digital Equipment Corp , bringing DEC 's holding in Olivetti to almost 10% and fulfilling the agreement concluded last year , which gives the Italian privileged access to DEC 's Alpha RISC . |
| 5 | Some properties can be identified with little difficulty : Dale 's holding in Empingham was the manor of Hardwick , once a flourishing hamlet , which by 1522 had evidently shrunk to the single farm it has long been ; there was just one tenant . |
| 6 | At the beginning of September approval was given for the part sale of Israel Chemicals ( IC ) , the most profitable state enterprise with the eventual goal of reducing the state 's holding in the company to 28 per cent . |
| 7 | It 's an event YWAM is holding with a church from Southampton . |
| 8 | R.5(6) provides that a shareholder shall not exercise any voting rights in respect of any share held in breach of any part of R.5 — a breach could come about either because a shareholder is not permitted to be a shareholder or because a shareholder is holding for another person who is not permitted to be a beneficial owner . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , in Eritrea , to the north , a de facto ceasefire is holding between the government and the Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) , which is seeking independence for Eritrea . |
| 10 | Novell is holding off announcement of a general release date until later in the year . |
| 11 | We have to inform you that you are the beneficiary of a large sum of money which our client is holding in trust for you . |
| 12 | WORKS by the Scottish Colourists , including Samuel John Peploe and John Duncan Fergusson , are included in a sale which Sotheby 's is holding in Edinburgh tomorrow . |
| 13 | If I move as privately as possible , it is to hold off the fools and rogues until the thing has a chance of success . |
| 14 | A variation on this is to hold in each entry in the translation table , not only the value to be placed in the destination string , but also the address of a new translation table to be used for the next source character . |
| 15 | What you must NOT do is hold up the edge of the knitting , taking the weight off it , in an attempt to help the linker cast off . |
| 16 | They also became aware of the low regard in which the farm worker is held outside their own rural area . |
| 17 | To raise the money , each member of the department donates fifty pence a week and at the end of every month , a raffle is held of goods that have been collected together . |
| 18 | If L grants a lease to T and then T assigns it to A , there is no privity of contract between L and A since there has been no direct transaction between them ; but there is privity of estate , for A has become L's tenant by acquiring the estate which L created and which is held of L as the immediate landlord . |
| 19 | For the sit-ups either a dumb-bell or a weight disc is held to the chest , and the back is kept slightly rounded with the chin on the chest . |
| 20 | He is held to be efficient , fair-minded , scrupulously honest , and is well-liked by his colleagues . |
| 21 | In Chicago , an annual chipping ceremony is held to the strains of ‘ O Christmas Tree , O Christmas Tree . ’ |
| 22 | English law has tended to confine narrowly the situations in which a mistake is held to negative the consent apparently given by the woman : only where the victim was made to believe that the man was her husband , or that the act to which she was being asked to consent was not sexual intercourse , is the mistake sufficiently fundamental to convert the apparently consensual sex into rape . |
| 23 | Thus woman 's sexuality is held to be her most important asset . |
| 24 | In some cemeteries an annual or regular service is held to which all the families and friends of people who have been buried or cremated in the last year are invited . |
| 25 | Removal of water through artesian wells is held to be the reason why the tower began going off at an angle soon after building work began in 1174 . |
| 26 | Now , when I touch his cheek with my finger , he responds normally , but not as quickly as he responds when he is held to the breast . |
| 27 | It will be recalled that , according to this theory , a stimulus is held to be fully effective only when it is able to generate the Al ( primary activation ) state in the node that constitutes its central representation . |
| 28 | Latent inhibition is held to be a consequence of the formation of associations among these elements . |
| 29 | Some form of pupil assessment , intelligible to everyone and as far as possible uniform throughout the country , is held to be essential since it is through such public assessment that what is taught and learned at school is most clearly related to the world outside school . |
| 30 | The idea that we might feel , that we might be angry , that we might care , that we might even have what are disparagingly known as ‘ gut feelings ’ rather than hard scientific evidence , is held to be something of a problem if you are an environmentalist on the road to success . |