Example sentences of "hold at a [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grinders should be held at a shallow angle of between 15 and 30° to the work when they are used to abrade the surface . |
| 2 | The belief expressed was that wage rates were held at a depressed level in the provinces of England compared to London . |
| 3 | held at a pleasant temperature by the warm fluid circulating above and below , and enjoyably light as well , thanks to the fish . |
| 4 | A striped shirt without a collar , and trousers that were held at a slender stomach by braces , and carpet slippers in checked shades of brown , and a smell of pipe tobacco . |
| 5 | The mass will be held at a religious shrine on a road where , three years ago , hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered in the uprising which toppled the former president , Ferdinand Marcos , and installed Mrs Aquino in power . |
| 6 | Three Americans were held at a luxury flat in West London where cocaine worth £7 million was found . |
| 7 | They were both being held at a military prison in the town of Blida , 50 km south of Algiers . |
| 8 | The couple — who now run a pet shop in Hull — married while held at a nuclear plant in Basra , Iraq . |
| 9 | MCC bosses had hoped to deflect the rebels from insisting on the meeting , which will cost £17,000 and may well have to be held at a huge venue like Westminster Hall , by offering to pass on their views on the Gower affair to the selectors and the TCCB in an unprecedented letter of protest . |
| 10 | The stock of bills is shown by and this stock is willingly held at an average rate of discount of . |
| 11 | Whenever child abuse is suspected , a conference will be held at an early stage in the investigation and decision-making processes . |
| 12 | A meeting of the SADR Cabinet , chaired by the SADR President , Mohammed Abdelazziz , and held at an unspecified location on Nov. 4 , called on Morocco " once again to begin direct dialogue ( with Polisario ) as soon as possible to implement the resolutions of the international community " . |