Example sentences of "[noun sg] hold [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ For example , it becomes considerably easier to contemplate supplying across EC markets from a stock held in a central EC location . ’ |
| 3 | The aging houngan 's grim facade held for a moment , then dissolved into a spray of laughter lines as he smiled . |
| 4 | Guests at the ceremony held in a beautiful beachside house included director Micahel Winner and millionaire Robert Sangster . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then flew away , slow-flapping wings , neck held in a curving S-shape . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I have just returned from an interesting and enjoyable conference on Coastal Zone Management held during a beautiful weekend in Copenhagen . |
| 11 | Asked about the 19.5 per cent stake held by a rival brewer , he said he thought Boddington should sell it . |
| 12 | 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 ] . |
| 13 | On 6 February 1991 the judge held as a preliminary point that the cause of action was statute-barred . |
| 14 | This paragraph provides a revealing insight into the narrow view of the offence of rape held by a majority of the Committee 's members . |
| 15 | Muawad was elected during a Parliament session held at an air base in northern Lebanon . |
| 16 | Joke ) ; in which Connon swung a metal bar held like a spear into his wife 's forehead ( jealous rage ? did n't fit . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Leeson had protected the photograph with two thin pieces of white cardboard held with an elastic band . |
| 22 | The blockade held for an amazing eight months before the army broke it up . |
| 23 | Notes : Cash held by a bank must be sufficient to meet customer needs . |
| 24 | The simplest example of redundancy is to imagine a personnel record held in a computer system . |
| 25 | The record held by a Frenchmen stands at 44 knots that 's around 50 mph . |
| 26 | This will be part of an informal open tasting evening held at a Sainsbury 's store where visitors will be able to taste a range of wines . |
| 27 | ’ This fragment from the dead planet Ichael , ’ Posi then added , ’ is part of a nearly forgotten data package held at a university on Quarley 's World , a planet located on the Rim Beyond the Rim ’ . |
| 28 | At a press conference held before a walkabout in the town centre he said the insurance industry had increased the premiums on ‘ hot ’ hatchbacks often the target for joyriders . |
| 29 | For centuries therefore , statute has placed a limit on the time after which a claimant to an interest in land may bring an action to establish it in the face of the possession of another person holding under a later title … |
| 30 | Thus , for example , the Court held in a 1970 decision that , since Community regulations are directly applicable in all the Member States , the Member States can not , in order to ensure their application , in the absence of a provision to the contrary , take measures the purpose of which is to alter the scope of or add to their provisions . |