Example sentences of "held [adj] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watched him jog off , the head held high for the first twenty yards , to promote oxygenation , then tucked in low as he measured out the rhythm of his pace . |
| 2 | What held good for Stoke Poges held good for the Western Isles ; Kathleen Raine has given us a description , worthy of Thomas Gray , of the burial of an old Scotswoman : |
| 3 | First , Fisher invited Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus whom some held responsible for the murder of British soldiers in the quasi-civil war in Cyprus . |
| 4 | Under this , the EPA is responsible for cleaning up the most contaminated sites and then recovering the cost from the bodies held responsible for the contamination . |
| 5 | Emmanuel Mounier and the young collaborationist intellectuals of Jeune France were the first to propose the idea of a State culture to counter the empty capitalist hedonism , which they held responsible for the moral catastrophe of 1940 . |
| 6 | When he returned at the beginning of December 1340 Edward had immediately dismissed the home council , Robert Stratford , who was bishop of Chichester and chancellor , among them ; Archbishop Stratford , then held responsible for the home government 's failure , was ordered to Louvain as a hostage for the payment of the allies , while the dismissal and prosecution of other ministers and officials — mostly clerics — was set in motion . |
| 7 | Coming to the end of his account , he remembered the fate of the mason-overseer , Khaemhet , held responsible for the security of the prisoners deputed to him for the journey from the granite quarries to the Southern Capital . |
| 8 | Government troops killed over 40 Tamils whom they held responsible for the Aug. 6 incidents , after Wijeratne had declared that " we will show no mercy to these Tamil terrorists , criminals who do not deserve to live " . |
| 9 | Calling on the government to honour pledges of land and credit made to the contras before their demobilization in June [ see p. 37450 ] , they had also demanded the dismissal of former Sandinista leader Gen. Humberto Ortega Saavedra as C.-in-C. of the Armed Forces , and the resignation of Antonio Lacayo Oyanguren , Minister of the Presidency , and Carlos Hurtado Cabrera , Minister of the Interior , whom they held responsible for the October economic pact between the government and the opposition Sandinista-controlled unions [ see p. 37771 ] . |
| 10 | The German state prosecutor 's office announced on April 8 that tests conducted on the bones of a man who died in Brazil in 1979 confirmed that the body ( discovered in 1985 — see p. 33759 ) was that of Josef Mengele , the so-called " Angel of Death " held responsible for the deaths of 400,000 prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War . |
| 11 | This lack of significant difference between the proportions of RP cases and controls held true for the other histological categories as well , including even patients with definite Crohn 's disease ( Group E ) ( RP 13% , control 17% ) . |