Example sentences of "held [adv] for the " in BNC.

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1 However , as for small group tutorials , colloquia and seminars are usually held only for the senior years of the course .
2 It relies instead on a political theory about the legitimacy of private power and the conditions subject to which that power may be exercised : a theory that contends that power may be legitimately held only for the purpose of furthering the public good .
3 According to the quantity theory , money is held only for the purpose of making payments for current transactions .
4 The holiday camps are held separately for the different sexes , mirroring the gender segregation that occurs in the majority of Northern Ireland 's schools , but another form of segregation in schooling which is not reproduced is that of religion , for the few Catholic schools that exist in the Easton area nominate participants .
5 He was ready now , and had his hand held out for the instrument , lightly brushing her fingers accidentally as she passed it to him .
6 The festival was held outdoors for the first eighty years , but moved indoors after torrential rain caused the collapse of the stage as the congregation were singing The Heavens are Telling !
7 There was , too , something unaccountable about Richard — perhaps the same wilfulness that induced him to live offshore although his marriage was in a perilous state — which attracted him to Pratts because celebrations were only held there for the death of a king or queen .
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