Example sentences of "[noun sg] holding [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where a company is controlled by its directors , its expansion strategy may outgrow the resources of its directors so that they can not maintain their percentage holding through a series of costly rights issues or placings , with a consequential dilution of that holding . |
| 2 | Grass is not her favourite surface and there were many who thought she would have great difficulty holding off the challenges of Steffi Graf , Martina Navratilova or Gabriela Sabatini . |
| 3 | For centuries therefore , statute has placed a limit on the time after which a claimant to an interest in land may bring an action to establish it in the face of the possession of another person holding under a later title … |
| 4 | I noted earlier that Marx recognised the social and political ‘ materiality ’ of lines of demarcation other than those of property holding in the ‘ Eighteenth Brumaire ’ : nonetheless what is striking in this passage is that he never settled accounts with the general theory which denied such factors any pertinence in the long run . |
| 5 | From the records of property holding in the city of London between c 1200 and 1666 , it is possible to trace a remarkable sequence of changes in the fabric of the city , the density of settlement , the property market , and the social and economic structure . |
| 6 | I think that the House needs to know whether he will abolish fund holding in the teeth of opposition from virtually every GP and from the British Medical Association . |
| 7 | should be the present tiller should re retain the approximate average per capita land , land holding in the in the locality . |
| 8 | Conversion is achieved by transferring the nominee holding to the beneficial owner . |
| 9 | This was a rich port type and the bottle holding about a quart cost 3s9d . |
| 10 | The same was true of major office holding within a region . |
| 11 | The same was true of major office holding within a region . |
| 12 | Much of the family 's influence derived not from land , but from office holding within the royal demesne , and the implications of this tend to be overlooked . |
| 13 | Much of the family 's influence derived not from land , but from office holding within the royal demesne , and the implications of this tend to be overlooked . |
| 14 | In the reign of Henry VII , Sir Thomas Lovell was able to raise a military contingent in Nottinghamshire , where he held no land , on the strength of his office holding in the county . |
| 15 | In the reign of Henry VII , Sir Thomas Lovell was able to raise a military contingent in Nottinghamshire , where he held no land , on the strength of his office holding in the county . |
| 16 | The tenant entering under a void lease became by virtue of possession and the payment of a yearly rent , a yearly tenant holding on the terms of the agreement so far as those terms were consistent with the yearly tenancy . |