Example sentences of "held [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shaking a match out involves a lot of rattling and scratching about , before he lights the turd using two matches held together for a brighter flare . |
| 2 | However , as for small group tutorials , colloquia and seminars are usually held only for the senior years of the course . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | According to the quantity theory , money is held only for the purpose of making payments for current transactions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 | A hall in the Andersonian University was procured , and meetings were held there for a number of years , with periods spent in Balfour 's School , North Portland Street ( 1848–1850 ) , the Young Men 's Christian Association , North Frederick Street ( 1857–8 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |