Example sentences of "held up [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Fifties saw two quite different examples of femininity held up for admiration . |
| 2 | He produced a practical edition ( with chapter-divisions ) of Einhard 's Life of Charlemagne : in his prologue , written after 840 , Walahfrid held up for emulation both Einhard 's scientia and the preference of the " most powerful and most wise " Charlemagne for the company of wise men . |
| 3 | It is a peculiarly appropriate irony that this should be the only poem in this group with the Our/ We form , establishing on the grammatical plane a congruence with the semantic one : seen from the outside , held up for inspection , they are united — at the level of mutual deception . |
| 4 | One man stood alone , his breeches held up with string , his arms pinned to his sides . |
| 5 | News in brief : Ferries held up by gas leak . |
| 6 | The earliest textile mills were similar to the traditional water-powered flour mills because they consisted of load-bearing masonry external walls and wooden floors held up by timber posts or cast-iron columns and often occupied equally remote rural locations in order to exploit fully the power provided by the rushing streams of narrow Pennine valleys . |
| 7 | Such developments have been far slower in Britain , held up in part by regulatory and tax barriers . |
| 8 | Note too , the bronze hand held up in blessing commemorating a place of execution by the Nazis . |
| 9 | On a new ultra-smooth track , and in a race which began with a multi-car shunt at the start , he drove an absolutely perfect race , while Niki got himself held up in traffic by the inexperienced Mauro Baldi and could do no better than finish fourth . |