Example sentences of "hold [adj] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is in a smooth plastic pot , and there is insufficient root coming through to prevent movement ( i.e. the plant is pot bound ) , it should be possible to slide the pot away just enough to see if the root ball is held intact by root action . |
| 2 | This is accomplished by allowing the run from D1 to D10 to occur while pin 13 of IC2 , the clock enable pin , is held low by way of resistor R9 . |
| 3 | He can not interfere directly with the proceedings of the Common Law Courts ; he can not issue a new writ which will have much chance of being held good by those courts . |
| 4 | The Class 40 , dressed in a never-never livery of rail blue with all yellow cabs , large BR logo and carrying a might-have-been number 40 445 , was facing south — held stationary by the unblinking red eye of a four-aspect colour light signal , newly erected at the Manchester end of Platform Three . |
| 5 | Otherwise , the sitter 's ankles and wrists are immediately grasped and held firm by tentacular protrusions which shoot from the mouths of certain Chaos faces in the wood . |
| 6 | However , the long tail seemed to be encased in bundles of bony rods which could , like a conjuror 's segmented wand held erect by the pressure of the conjuror 's fingers at one end , lock it almost rigid . |
| 7 | The images can be , but they 've also got an edge of grim humour — Heartfield and police president Zorgiebel ( below ) shows the artist 's response to the man held responsible by the Communists for the killing of May Day demonstrators in 1929 . |
| 8 | A further vicious twist in this kind of representation , again remarked by Richard Plant in The Pink Triangle , concerns the way that in the Nazi concentration camps homosexual inmates were held responsible by non-homosexual inmates for crimes committed by homosexual guards : ‘ homosexual guards , however hostile , were seen by non-gay prisoners as belonging to the homosexual underclass . |
| 9 | At the same time the Bakufu was held responsible by the powers for attacks on foreigners by anti-foreign elements , over which it had little control . |
| 10 | I had a glimpse of a fair-haired girl staring wide-eyed and terrified from a tennis court , her racket held loose by her side and tennis balls scattered at her feet and , though the trees and buildings and gardens were nothing but a high-speed blur , my mind nevertheless registered with a startling clarity that the girl had been completely naked . |
| 11 | ‘ Again , the things that we see to be hard and dense must needs consist of particles more mutually hooked and must be deeply held compact by branch-like elements . |
| 12 | It is quite easy , especially on the back bed , to leave the rail held open by a pusher not quite in its proper place . |
| 13 | The right wing did not suffer gross damage , but the right fuel tank water drain valve protruding from the undersurface of the wing was forced and held open by impact damage , resulting in release of most of the gasoline in the tank . |
| 14 | Legs fly over tambourines held steady by one or the other partner . |
| 15 | ‘ No , ’ repeated Rokeya , but the door was still held open by an inch . |
| 16 | Blanche 's door was already being held open by the driver . |
| 17 | A mystic who refused to retract a statement accusing Tughluk of tyranny had his mouth held open by skewers while excrement was poured down his throat . |
| 18 | He turned suddenly and saw her and she was held motionless by his gaze , caught without any hope of escape , mesmerised by the power and intensity of his whole being . |
| 19 | He used his fingers and the stick , he scuffled food into his mouth from the pan which he held close by his mouth so that any pieces that fell from his fingers or lips would go back into the container , not onto the ground . |
| 20 | 440 , where an agreement by the father of illegitimate children to pay the mother for maintaining them was held enforceable by Cockburn C.J. and Byles J. on the ground that the liability imposed upon the mother of illegitimate children under the then relevant statute ( 4 & 5 Will . |
| 21 | Wind provides all the energy we need for an anchored ( line held taut by the flyer ) kite . |
| 22 | At the time it was held secure by a crane using two chains . |
| 23 | She said : ‘ About two weeks after we had been held captive by the Iraqis , one of the air crew told us that there were SAS soldiers on board the plane . |
| 24 | Major Gregg Donahue ( Marshall Thompson ) takes a Vietnamese guide to help him locate his younger brother , a doctor who is being held captive by the Viet Cong at an old French fort . |
| 25 | Foreign Minister David Levy stated after the meeting that the USA had been " held captive by the very coalition it [ had ] formed against Saddam Hussein " . |
| 26 | During building renovations in a Milan flat at the end of October , copies of letters were discovered written in 1978 by the then DC president , Aldo Moro , while he was being held captive by the Red Brigades before they murdered him [ see pp. 29053-55 ] . |
| 27 | I am being held captive by Simon Butcher , the society photographer . |
| 28 | ‘ I was imprisoned and held captive by the very forces I had so long sought to perfect and that I had honed and polished until they were stronger and more glittering than anything ever known at Tara . |
| 29 | She swayed helplessly against him , held captive by the spell of his hands and his hypnotically persuasive voice . |
| 30 | As are to play the Pied Piper , Bs the Mayor of Hamelin and Cs the parent of a child held captive by the Pied Piper . |