Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [adv] hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snowy owl assemblages have relatively higher rates of molar loss than barn owl and long-eared owl assemblages , and this almost certainly reflects their dominance by lemmings , the teeth of which are loosely held in the jaws . |
| 2 | 7.4 In addition to this obligation under cl 7.3 , upon termination of this Agreement for whatever cause ( including effluxion of time ) the Company shall purchase from the Supplier all stocks of finished Products held by the Supplier which are not covered by purchase orders together with all stocks of unused packaging materials for the Products which are either held by the Supplier or which the Supplier is already obliged to purchase from third parties . |
| 3 | The original site at Baghill Green is now a housing development , but a plaque by the front gate of one of the new houses commemorates the site and inauguration of the fairs , which are now held across the road . |
| 4 | Stein 's book may have influenced the initial formulation of Marx 's conception of the proletariat in capitalist society ( Avineri , 1972 , pp. 53–5 ) , but whether that is so or not it did undoubtedly express in a very clear and forceful way ideas which were widely held about the dominant political issues in nineteenth-century European societies ; to such an extent that the social movement came to be largely identified , especially in Germany , with the labour movement . |
| 5 | By the Great Semantic Shift which has operated in English politics over the past 30 years or so , opinions on this and many other matters which were once held by the majority and described as ‘ moderate ’ , ‘ of the centre ’ or merely ‘ patriotic ’ have gradually come to be described first as ‘ right-wing ’ , then as ‘ extreme right-wing ’ , then as ‘ lunatic fringe ’ and finally as ‘ fascist ’ . |
| 6 | So what should happen to the money which is now held by the I M O in Paris ? |
| 7 | In the south they were either pagan or more probably belonged to that archaic South Arabian form of Judaism which is still held by the Falashas . |
| 8 | What emerges from these scantily recorded years is that by the time of the first minuted meeting , in January 1907 , and which was probably held in the manager 's office at the Henley branch of Reading bankers , J. and C. Simonds , much work towards the Club 's formation had already been accomplished . |
| 9 | Later that month Lyles hosted the Inter Company Buchanan Trophy , a major event which was also held on the Braehead Course . |
| 10 | It is this sort of person who is always allowed the best seat on coaches , is given cigarettes , whose suggestions concerning strategies in conflict situations are always most heeded , and who is generally held in the highest esteem . |
| 11 | Creggan could not see that at the sound of his words and particularly at the name of Callanish , there came into the eyes of old Minch , who was now held in the cage by the Men , a look as from some vast distance in the past . |
| 12 | They were still held within the vice of their own fields , with all the complicated property rights which made it impossible to secure land for building development . |
| 13 | SCP is not eligible for rediscount with the Bank of England but it is attractive to a much wider range of investors than bankers ' acceptances , and it is widely held outside the banking sector by institutional investors such as insurance companies and pension funds . |
| 14 | He is currently held at the No. 3 provincial prison at Yuxian in Henan . |
| 15 | It was nonetheless held by the majority of the House of Lords that the three year period ran from the date when the workman suffered the injury and not from the earlier date when the manufacturers manufactured the defective machine . |
| 16 | It was subsequently held by the Privy Council that permits were not required by persons in the position of the plaintiffs . |
| 17 | It was therefore held by the Court that the fact that all the Member States had signed the Customs Cooperation Council Valuation Convention would not lead to the necessary extent to the uniform determination of the value for customs purposes of imported goods required for the functioning of customs union . |