Example sentences of "held [adv prt] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Control key must be held down while the R or W key on the keyboard is pressed . |
| 2 | But the real success of either policy depends , from the employers ' perspective , on the extent to which real wages are held down and the potential profitability improved . |
| 3 | Dependants ' benefits will disappear as they are being held down until the universal child benefit catches up with them . |
| 4 | The election of a Captain was again held over and the office remained vacant for a further year . |
| 5 | It has to be held off until the stick reaches the full aft position , just like a taildragger , and then it will sink quickly onto the main undercarriage first . |
| 6 | It lengthens the odds on any serious chance of learning taking place , and of time being held up while the child is absorbed in what Ted Hughes calls ‘ a raid on the subconscious ’ . |
| 7 | Hunt 's steadily deflating tyre held up until the last corner before the pits ; in he came for a tyre change . |
| 8 | He maintained that the construction of the flood barriers ( based on the MOSE prototype : see The Art Newspaper , No. 15 , February 1992 , p.1 ) would not be held up until the de-pollution programme was completed : plans and experimental work on the flood barriers would go ahead while the environmental problems were being dealt with and experimental work should be completed by the beginning of 1994 . |
| 9 | Jimmy Fitzgerald 's six-year-old , always held up until the last possible moment when racing over timber , was left in the lead four out in the Betting Spy Novices ' Chase . |
| 10 | In last month 's very tough spending round , the main programmes have held up and the British Library has received extra funds . |
| 11 | She was fine and that gave me the courage to go on , then the unveiling was held up because the trustees thought it would be controversial and it was … |
| 12 | In September agreement was held up when the then Chancellor , Mr Nigel Lawson , seemed reluctant to allow any change in the IMF 's structure which resulted in a drop in Britain 's position as the second largest shareholder within the Fund , even though it is now the sixth largest market economy . |
| 13 | There will be other forms of contingency strategy , where home care spending — perhaps up to one-third of the overall allocation — is deliberately held back until the residential and nursing home spend settles down into a recognisable pattern . |