Example sentences of "held [prep] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Enterprise zone property trusts are established to be held as an investment for a very long period ( usually 25 years ) and as Capital Ventures warns : ‘ You may have difficulty in selling your investment before realisation of the underlying property … ’ |
| 2 | Information disclosed on discovery in legal proceedings is clearly held under an obligation of confidence and may be used only for the purpose of those proceedings . |
| 3 | In March 1991 , a student in Assam was arrested and held in an army camp for five days , where he was beaten and electric shocks were applied to his body . |
| 4 | Two conferences were held in an attempt to resolve the dispute , with the court attempting to determine what privileges , if any , the government was claiming . |
| 5 | It goes almost without saying that karate competitions must be held in an atmosphere of respect , for the self , for the opponent and for the members of the refereeing panel . |
| 6 | The UK visit was reported to be the first official visit by a Vietnamese Foreign Minister since the end of the Vietnam War , and the talks were reported to have been held in an atmosphere of frankness and goodwill , with both sides keen to improve economic and diplomatic links and to co-operate fully on the issue of the repatriation of " boat people " from Hong Kong . |
| 7 | A known mass of the sample is held in an atmosphere of pure oxygen at about 25 atmospheres . |
| 8 | The votes apportioned as provided in paragraph ( b ) above shall be totalled and the candidate receiving more than half of the votes shall be declared elected and if no candidate reaches this total on the first ballot further ballots should be held on an elimination basis . |
| 9 | The Council 's senior officers were involved in frequent contacts with other bodies : meetings were held on an officer basis with the UGC and the CVCP , the DES , and the professional bodies in those fields covered by the CNAA 's validation work . |
| 10 | The index is held on an IBM PC disk and is designed for oil companies and other would-be users of BGS data . |
| 11 | This type of information used to be held on an IBM mainframe computer , but this closed down for financial reasons . |
| 12 | Having a double surface which is held to an aerofoil section by the risers sewn into the body , the foils are quite different to the otherwise flat plate single surface Deltas . |
| 13 | Muawad was elected during a Parliament session held at an air base in northern Lebanon . |
| 14 | With a steel rule held firmly in position to guide a heavy-duty craft knife which is held at an angle , make a clean , bevelled cut between the pin holes to create the window . |
| 15 | The iron can also be held at an angle for a more intense jet of steam . |
| 16 | She spoke in Spanish , her head held at an angle of listening , and Maggie shot a quick look at their host . |
| 17 | After incubation for 5 minutes at room temperature to allow trypsin inactivation , the gall bladder epithelial cells were detached by gently scrapping the mucosa with the end of a glass microscope slide held at an angle of 45° . |
| 18 | For example , bank notes held by an individual are an asset to the holder whereas to the issuing authority , i.e. central bank , the notes represent a liability . |
| 19 | They reasoned that an attitude held by an individual is a unique value on a continuum of possibilities or scale , rather than something which is simply present or absent . |
| 20 | The amount of money held by an individual to finance these transactions , therefore , is likely to depend on the size of the individual 's money income and on institutional arrangements , such as how often the individual is paid and how often he pays his bills and engages in monetary transactions . |
| 21 | The clerkship of a licensing board is not to be held by the incumbent of a particular office but is to be held by an officer appointed and employed by the appropriate district or islands council . |
| 22 | The council may make the appointment full or part time and it may be held by an officer of a regional council but the appointee must be an advocate or a solicitor . |
| 23 | The concerns of Scott J were echoed by Harman J in Systems Reliability Holdings Plc v Smith [ 1990 ] IRLR 377 where the judge concluded ( in a case where he was concerned with an express restriction on the use and disclosure of , in particular the knowledge acquired by the defendant during his employment of the ability to modify an old computer by a small addition so as to make a new product of significant commercial value ) that the controversial part of Neill LJ 's judgment did not bind him to hold that there can not be in an express restrictive of covenant any restriction on information held by an ex-employee which is not a trade secret or something similar . |
| 24 | ( 6 ) A legal estate is not capable of subsisting or of being created in an undivided share in land or of being held by an infant . |
| 25 | Rather , it is the highest level of qualification held by an employee which is of interest , and therefore any lower level information is superfluous and a burden on the system . |