Example sentences of "[noun] hold [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
| 2 | They reasoned that an attitude held by an individual is a unique value on a continuum of possibilities or scale , rather than something which is simply present or absent . |
| 3 | Abdul al Wahhab Abdul Salam Attar became Minister of Planning , a portfolio held in an acting capacity by Shaikh Hisham Nazer since his appointment in 1986 as Minister for Petroleum and Mineral Resources [ see p. 35289 ] . |
| 4 | Muawad was elected during a Parliament session held at an air base in northern Lebanon . |
| 5 | Leeson had protected the photograph with two thin pieces of white cardboard held with an elastic band . |
| 6 | The blockade held for an amazing eight months before the army broke it up . |
| 7 | Treaty , assumes new obligations which conflict with rights held under an earlier agreement ipso facto agrees to forgo the exercise of such rights to the extent necessary for the performance of its new obligations ( cf. summary at p. 1 , para. 2 ) . |
| 8 | She spoke in Spanish , her head held at an angle of listening , and Maggie shot a quick look at their host . |
| 9 | The attack came from positions held by an Iranian-backed Shia group and a Sunni fundamentalist group led by Gulbuddin Hikmatyar , prime minister-designate . |
| 10 | In 1331 Ralph Neville was appointed to that office , and several of his descendants secured a like appointment , culminating in the grant in 1443 to Richard Neville , Earl of Gloucester , of the northern Forest justiceship to hold as an hereditary office for himself and ‘ the heirs male of his body ’ , with certain Forest rents and revenues and ‘ power to appoint at will all foresters and officers in Inglewood Forest ’ . |
| 11 | They must be licensed , but if necessary an arrangement may be made to operate as a subsidiary within the terms of a licence held by an Irish bank . |
| 12 | The concerns of Scott J were echoed by Harman J in Systems Reliability Holdings Plc v Smith [ 1990 ] IRLR 377 where the judge concluded ( in a case where he was concerned with an express restriction on the use and disclosure of , in particular the knowledge acquired by the defendant during his employment of the ability to modify an old computer by a small addition so as to make a new product of significant commercial value ) that the controversial part of Neill LJ 's judgment did not bind him to hold that there can not be in an express restrictive of covenant any restriction on information held by an ex-employee which is not a trade secret or something similar . |
| 13 | ( For these authors , wealth is the value of the stock of physical and financial assets held by an individual , company , association or institution less liabilities . ) |
| 14 | This chapter explains : ( 1 ) that the identity and qualifications of an expert are established by the parties , usually in the expert clause , and that an expert need not be an individual ( 9.2 ) ; ( 2 ) the practice of referring disputes to a named individual , firm or company ( 9.3 ) ; ( 3 ) the same practice where the test is the position held by an individual , firm or company ( 9.4 ) ; ( 4 ) the practice of referring disputes to members of a particular profession ( 9.5 ) ; ( 5 ) the effect of stipulating criteria for an expert 's eligibility ( 9.6 ) ; ( 6 ) the effect of a requirement that an expert be independent ( 9.7 ) ; ( 7 ) the practice relating to umpires ( 9.8 ) . |
| 15 | Rather , it is the highest level of qualification held by an employee which is of interest , and therefore any lower level information is superfluous and a burden on the system . |
| 16 | For example , bank notes held by an individual are an asset to the holder whereas to the issuing authority , i.e. central bank , the notes represent a liability . |
| 17 | Late night discussions held in an ‘ open political forum ’ around the noticeboard area . |
| 18 | The amount of money held by an individual to finance these transactions , therefore , is likely to depend on the size of the individual 's money income and on institutional arrangements , such as how often the individual is paid and how often he pays his bills and engages in monetary transactions . |
| 19 | The project examines the values held in an industrial community in Central Scotland , particularly those relating to formal and informal work , and investigates whether these values have changed in response to the high level of unemployment there . |
| 20 | The tenant holds under an agreement for a lease . |
| 21 | Present , if not correct , were a tired but not too emotional Tony , sorry ANTHONY H WILSON and various members of the INSPIRAL CARPETS whom let's face it , would go to a party held in an empty crisp packet . |
| 22 | After incubation for 5 minutes at room temperature to allow trypsin inactivation , the gall bladder epithelial cells were detached by gently scrapping the mucosa with the end of a glass microscope slide held at an angle of 45° . |
| 23 | Similar conclusions can be drawn about the number of jobs held in an average career but there remain marked differences according to age , educational background , gender and size of firm . |