Example sentences of "have been hold [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is true that no major course development has been held up by administrative constraints , the range of decisions with administrative effects ( deadlines , counting rules , etc. , as well as the information base about approved fields ) imposes a permanent culture of change on the administration of the Course . |
| 2 | The government decided in 1973 to promote nuclear power , but the idea has been held up by unresolved questions concerning the environment . |
| 3 | Perhaps some courageous reader will insist that the books are ordered , and the tide of semi-literacy will have been held back to that extent through the unsuspected influence of the popular cinema . |
| 4 | But given the fact that the first GCSE examinations will have been held only in 1988 , and that it would therefore be unrealistic to recommend their Instant abandonment . |
| 5 | Even their reports , which before the war would have been held together by close logic and the normal sense of what was being said , are now things of numbered paragraphs ( the British Library report cited earlier has sections with triple numbers , such as 9.6.1. and even the conclusions of chapters have introductions ) with no style or overall understanding at all . |
| 6 | It was reported that the final signing had been held up over successive objections raised by Taylor , and that he eventually signed only under pressure from Capt. Blaise Compaore , the head of state of Burkina , a country which , according to some reports , had previously been an important source of arms supplies to Taylor 's faction . |
| 7 | Negotiations had been held up during 1989 by a series of disputes [ see p. 37573 ] , and in May 1990 Malaysia had cancelled plans to buy for £400,000,000 ( nearly US$700 million ) 12 Tornado jet fighters from British Aerospace . |
| 8 | In return the Americans this month unblocked $5m in military aid that had been held up after last year 's arrests . |
| 9 | The initialling of the agreement , reached in principle in October 1991 [ see pp. 38541-42 ] , had been held up by legal objections raised in December [ see p. 38691 ] by the EC 's European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) . |
| 10 | A service accord had been held up by developing countries , who feared that liberalization would allow Western financial companies to cripple newly established indigenous financial service industries . |
| 11 | However , in April 1990 the President of the World Bank , Barber Conable , said that economic development had been held back in sub-Saharan African countries by the weakness of their political systems , nepotism and corruption . |
| 12 | Again and again , people told me in Prague earlier this month how the Forum had been held together at difficult moments by his irrestistible decency and gentle authority . |
| 13 | This publication stems from one of the five seminars that have been held regularly since early 1979 in Edinburgh , convened by Dr Anthony Jackson . |
| 14 | It 's part of the biggest event of it 's kind to be staged in Britain , and it 's been held especially for handicapped and underprivileged youngsters . |