Example sentences of "held for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that Moorish Negress was so skilful in drawing the Turkish bow , that it was held for a marvel , and it is said that they called her in Arabic Nugueymat Turya , which is to say , the Star of the Archers . |
| 2 | It was finally fixed in place and glazed just in time for a christening and the first flower festival to be held for a while . |
| 3 | The silence held for a while and then she heard a low laugh that seemed to trace itself right down her spine too . |
| 4 | The shares are held for a year and then sold for $27 each . |
| 5 | SAN SALVADOR ( Reuter ) — One of two occupations of embassies in San Salvador ended when human rights activists freed 13 hostages they had held for a day at the Costa Rican Embassy and left . |
| 6 | Custodial Investments are essentially bearer instruments and readily disposable investments held for a client and which are neither the subject of a discretionary management agreement nor held in connection with any personal appointment and which the firm can sell without the client needing to authorise such sale . |
| 7 | All stretches should be gradual and held for a period of 30 seconds before release . |
| 8 | In addition , potential shareholders were offered telephone vouchers or a bonus share issue if the shares were held for a period of three years , in order to try to prevent the immediate sale of shares after the issue . |
| 9 | One or two , their horses killed under them , were held for a time unable to fall , and others slithered into the river , its shore by now churned into slime , and drowned there in their harness . |
| 10 | This tensing should be held for a count of five , then released , and repeated several times . |
| 11 | By the end of the Middle Ages there were various categories of copyholder , the best placed being those who held by inheritance with the entry fine to the land being fixed , while the less fortunate held for a term of life , with an uncertain entry fine to be paid by the successor , or even , although this was unusual , held only for a term of years ( 79 , p.47 ; 82 , pp.60–2 ) . |
| 12 | The aging houngan 's grim facade held for a moment , then dissolved into a spray of laughter lines as he smiled . |
| 13 | And that was as far as she got because the crash-bang music gave the final crash , the stage lights held for a moment and then cut to blackout , and there was a smattering of couldn't-care-less applause from the front of the house . |
| 14 | The tableau was held for a moment , and the curtain swiftly fell . |
| 15 | Their eyes held for a moment and a slow smile began to grow on the darkly handsome face . |
| 16 | A framework for interpreting memory results for complex stimuli was discussed in the introduction , this was the idea that memory results depend on the type of schema subjects previously held for a situation . |
| 17 | These attacks , plus an incident in which two men , a Briton and a Zimbabwean , were kidnapped and held for a month by the MNR in February-March , led to renewed doubts about the security of the Beira corridor between Zimbabwe and the central Mozambican port , which provided a major fuel and transport artery for Zimbabwean trade . |
| 18 | The aircraft have been held for a week because Paramount owes Bristol and Birmingham International airports £1.7million . |
| 19 | Elections were held for a number of other posts on Sept. 23-24 . |
| 20 | He was ordered held for a bail hearing on Tuesday . |