Example sentences of "[noun sg] hold on [art] " in BNC.

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1 I remember my father giving me specific advice on just how he climbed the crux section of the corner crack above ; ‘ When you get to the steep bit — you 'll know it when you get there — just face right and use the square cut holds on the edge .
2 As recorded in the minutes of the meeting of the Heads of Department held on the 11th March 1981 , reaction to this document was anxious and ambivalent , with several threads of concern emerging .
3 T The Queen 's only daughter married for the second time in a low-key ceremony held on the Balmoral estate this month .
4 At a torch-lit ceremony held on the regimental parade ground two nights later , we were given our képis .
5 I ended up lying in the scrubby grass at the bottom of the hill , my knuckles white as I throttled the rabbit , swinging it in front of my face with its neck held on the thin black line of rubber tubing , now tied like a knot on a black string .
6 I move the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on the twenty first of May 1991 be signed as a correct record .
7 I move that the minutes of the meeting of the Council held on the sixteenth of July be signed as a correct record .
8 A charity dance held on the night of the theft was attended by over 300 people .
9 Thank you Next item , Right agenda item three , notes of the Joint Consultative Committee held on the twenty-first of October , nineteen ninety-three , paper B. If I could just say a few words .
10 Despite being very close to an agreement with NALGO it was disappointing for the Special Finance Committee held on the 7 October 1992 to learn that the latest package offer had been rejected and to find that a number of employees had taken industrial action to lobby the meeting .
11 At a general meeting held on the evening of 13 February , it was reported that there were 475 non-union journeymen at work in Edinburgh and that " additional hands were daily arriving " .
12 In a separate bilateral meeting held on the fringes of the summit , Havel and Szürös discussed problems connected with the Hungarian minority in southern Slovakia and the Slovak minority in Hungary , which had been a source of tension between the two states .
13 At the ‘ O ’ Group held on the Troop Commander 's return , each Rig Commander was briefed on his part in the forthcoming operation , his place in bridge and on the contingency plans in case of breakdown , accident or enemy interference .
14 The major principles of the system design were as follows : ( i ) Each employee would have a single record held on the database containing all current information and , for some items , historical data .
15 An enormous amount of information is now collected on the performance of individual pupils throughout their school and further education careers and on numbers and grades of teaching staff , e.g. the Universities Statistical Record held on the UCCA computer .
16 The minutes of the meeting held on the first
17 Er minutes of the meeting held on the tenth of January were read and approved .
18 Item two , minutes of the meeting held on the eleventh of October .
19 As we received the Minutes of the Personnel Meeting held on the eighteenth of October , nineteen ninety-three .
20 Minutes of the meeting held on the seventeenth November .
21 Item twenty four meeting held on the eleventh of January are received those in favour please say aye .
22 The minutes of the meeting held on the twentieth of October have been er distributed .
23 The Sanjo Rokkaku is a hexagonal ‘ flat ’ kite , flown on a single line as a kenka-dako or ‘ fighting kite ’ at the annual kite festival held on the banks of the Nakanokuchi canal near the small town of Shirone .
24 Eventually at a conference held on the frontier between Gisors and Trie on 6 December 1183 Philip agreed to let Henry keep the Norman Vexin on condition that he paid Margaret an annual pension of 2700 livres and on the understanding that he granted it to whichever of his sons married Alice .
25 However , in elections to a National Assembly held on the eve of independence , Lumumba 's party ( Mouvement National Congolais : MNC ) won 41 of the 137 seats .
26 The Court held on the one hand that the protection of the Directive was a matter of public policy and so the worker could not trade away his right under the Directive to the maintenance of the same terms and conditions , even if ‘ the employee obtains new benefits in compensation for the disadvantages resulting from an amendment to his contract of employment so that , taking the matter as a whole , he is not placed in a worse position than before ’ ( point 15 ) .
27 The court held on the facts that the vendor 's agent was not under a duty of confidence ( Trees Ltd v Cripps ( 1983 ) 267 EG 596 ) .
28 The circus held on the field near the old school .
29 Pity for the lamb , its feet tied , its pale head held on the ground between Anderson 's boots , had never been quite lost in an adult 's sensible acceptance of such things being inevitable prior to Sunday 's luncheon .
30 This catalogue is used to check the books that the library holds on a particular subject .
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