Example sentences of "[adv] hold by [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back came Portsmouth and Colin Clark 's header well held by Ken Vasey at the other end while two minutes later , Jim Magilton turned well on the edge of the Portsmouth penalty area , but his dipping shot was well held by the visitor 's goal keeper , Andy Gosney . |
| 2 | Foreign exchange can be thought of as all liquid claims to currency payable abroad held by a country 's residents . |
| 3 | The shares were previously held by the company 's founder . |
| 4 | A by-election at La Caverne-Phoenix on June 11 , 1989 , was won by an MSM-MLP-backed candidate , who took the seat previously held by the opposition Mouvement militant mauricien ( MMM ) . |
| 5 | This issue had proved a major stumbling block in recent talks , as equal representation in the upper chamber for every province — the implacable demand of several of the less populous provinces — would mean a reduction in the share of the seats currently held by the country 's heavily populated provinces , particularly Ontario and Quebec . |