Example sentences of "[noun] hold [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus a feasible injection schedule for animals held in a room with a light period from 0800 h to 2000 h would be PMSG between 1500 and 1600 h and hCG 46 h later between 1300 and 1400 h . |
| 2 | His face was still , his mouth held in a taut beautiful line , his eyes as cold as an arctic glacier as he encouraged her to continue with the slightest nod of his head . |
| 3 | If your library has a computerised catalogue , you may be able to get a list of all the books held on a particular subject matter . |
| 4 | ‘ For example , it becomes considerably easier to contemplate supplying across EC markets from a stock held in a central EC location . ’ |
| 5 | The aging houngan 's grim facade held for a moment , then dissolved into a spray of laughter lines as he smiled . |
| 6 | The German authorities denied that they promised any of payments or leniency towards the two Hamadei brothers held in a German prison [ see pp. 38455 ; 38695 ] . |
| 7 | Guests at the ceremony held in a beautiful beachside house included director Micahel Winner and millionaire Robert Sangster . |
| 8 | Reports of a hunger strike during Baker 's visit by dissidents held in a Liaoning prison in protest over beatings and prison conditions was denied by the Chinese Foreign Ministry . |
| 9 | ‘ ( 2 ) A person secures access to any program or data held in a computer if by causing a computer to perform any function he — ( a ) alters or erases the program or data ; ( b ) copies or moves it to any storage medium other than that in which it is held or to a different location in the storage medium in which it is held ; ( c ) uses it ; or ( d ) has it output from the computer in which it is held ( whether by having it displayed or in any other manner ) ; and references to access to a program or data ( and to an intent to secure such access ) shall be read accordingly . |
| 10 | ‘ An individual shall be entitled ( a ) at reasonable intervals and without undue delay or expense ( i ) to be informed by any data user whether he holds personal data of which that individual is subject , and ( ii ) to access to any such data held by a data user ; and ( b ) where appropriate to have such data corrected or erased . ’ |
| 11 | Their eyes held for a long time and then he rested back on his elbows and looked at the treetops , his face suddenly serious . |
| 12 | Their eyes held for a moment and a slow smile began to grow on the darkly handsome face . |
| 13 | State participation in other major industrial enterprises , however , would be restricted to 25 per cent , with state equity held in a new holding company structure . |
| 14 | Marines were honour-bound to board a hulk , to cleanse any threat it posed , and to recover any valuable or enigmatic pieces of ancient technology from millennia earlier which might be encysted in the wreck like pearls held in a lethal clam . |
| 15 | Then flew away , slow-flapping wings , neck held in a curving S-shape . |
| 16 | But all I could do was wrestle with the lunging hind foot , dressing the infected cleft with a crude mixture of copper sulphate and Stockholm tar and finishing with a pad of cotton wool held by a tight bandage . |
| 17 | Where a company is controlled by its directors , its expansion strategy may outgrow the resources of its directors so that they can not maintain their percentage holding through a series of costly rights issues or placings , with a consequential dilution of that holding . |
| 18 | I have just returned from an interesting and enjoyable conference on Coastal Zone Management held during a beautiful weekend in Copenhagen . |
| 19 | With Llanelli held to a draw , Neath took the opportunity to leapfrog into third place with a 27–15 home win over South Wales Police . |
| 20 | THREE Welshmen held in a Spanish jail for 17 months over the stabbing of a Turk were yesterday told they will have to wait another six months to be tried . |
| 21 | Asked about the 19.5 per cent stake held by a rival brewer , he said he thought Boddington should sell it . |
| 22 | letters rogatory , issued in conjunction with proceedings in civil and commercial matters held before a judicial or other adjudicatory authority of one of the States Parties to this Convention , that have as their purpose : |
| 23 | On 6 February 1991 the judge held as a preliminary point that the cause of action was statute-barred . |
| 24 | This paragraph provides a revealing insight into the narrow view of the offence of rape held by a majority of the Committee 's members . |
| 25 | Joke ) ; in which Connon swung a metal bar held like a spear into his wife 's forehead ( jealous rage ? did n't fit . |
| 26 | Thus with the aileron and rudder held in a central position , a glider will always weathercock into line with the relative airflow , just as the wind vane on a church steeple will always swing into the wind . |
| 27 | Mr Anthony Hamnett , 48 , a trainee solicitor at the time with Nabarro Nathanson , admitted eating the penis under pressure from secretaries during the lunch held in a Chelsea restaurant just before Christmas 1990 . |
| 28 | The purpose of learning , according to cognition theories , is to construct a number of organised detailed frames of reference held in a sufficiently flexible way to enable us to change from one to another when considering an event or problem so that the best judgment is made and a rational course of action is taken . |
| 29 | After the winged Soul Eater had gone from the low-ceilinged Workshops , its leathery wings beating on the night , the soul of the mutilated boy held in a merciless grip between its claws , the slaves had scuttled back to their tasks and the Robemaker had conjured up another of the thin , whiplike lights that had lashed out and thrown Nuadu to the floor . |
| 30 | These are buildings held on a list now compiled by the Heritage Sponsorship Division of the Department of the Environment for the Secretary of State as being of ‘ special , historic or architectural interest ’ . |