Example sentences of "[noun sg] hold by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ultimately , loans were granted to customers by means of issuing notes or crediting their accounts with deposits ( loans ) in excess of the gold stock held by the goldsmith . |
| 2 | The spare was originally part of the national stock held by the three electricity boards before privatisation and came to Scottish Nuclear during dispersal of that stock in 1990 . |
| 3 | Long ago the Vexin had been divided into two along the line of the River Epte : on the east bank the French Vexin held by the King of France , on the west the Norman Vexin held by the Duke of Normandy . |
| 4 | An entry can be made by any part of the accused 's body or by an instrument held by the accused to intimidate someone in the building or to remove goods from the building . |
| 5 | The deeply unpopular Somerset was overthrown in October , and power passed to those who had opposed the war ; his successor , John Dudley , earl of Warwick , was only recognizing the inevitable when he gave up Boulogne at the same time as peace was made with Scotland in March 1550 , when the last stronghold held by the English , Lauder , capitulated . |
| 6 | The actual founding of the town is obscure , but it was well established as part of the Royal hunting lodge before 1066 and so has no separate entry in the Domesday Book , since Snaith was a royal manor held by the King ‘ for the support of his table ’ , and therefore already documented . |
| 7 | This envisaged collecting and processing relevant information contained on the payroll tape held by the Data Processing Branch . |
| 8 | The enormous main door of the house stood open , its metal-lined bulk held by the largest safety-chain he had ever seen . |
| 9 | The infra-red remote control is unique to this machine , and the only other way to get into it is via a master key held by the system supervisor . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , I feel that the ‘ caring professions ’ have a lot to answer for in terms of the attitude held by the general public . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Differences in reward between occupations result from the scarce skill held by the occupational group . |
| 14 | Her eyes drank in the cameo of the small child held by the tall man . |
| 15 | ( So firm is the grip held by the revived quantity theory of money nowadays that few of the monetarists or new classical macroeconomists who followed in Friedman 's footsteps bothered to elucidate the mechanism by which changes in M s ( or in ) affect W and P. They just do . ) |
| 16 | The difference is clearly seen by comparing the ideologies of mobility held by the members of the two sorts of system . |
| 17 | It is perhaps that long-term perspective which is at the root of present-day concern over the nuclear arsenal held by the superpowers . |
| 18 | Asked about the 19.5 per cent stake held by a rival brewer , he said he thought Boddington should sell it . |
| 19 | This may be shown by comparing two passages concerning one particular concept of honour held by the navy in the period concerned . |
| 20 | This paragraph provides a revealing insight into the narrow view of the offence of rape held by a majority of the Committee 's members . |
| 21 | NIGEL MANSELL walked off with four awards at a lunch held by the British Racing Drivers ' Club yesterday . |
| 22 | In November last year , at a conference held by the G M B we highlighted the priorities needed to deal with these regulations . |
| 23 | A nationwide network offering advice to professional women on a range of issues , from sexual harassment in the workplace to setting up childcare arrangements , was one of a number of imaginative proposals to emerge from Workplace 2000 , a lunchtime meeting held by the Institute last month . |
| 24 | The degree of skill will vary according to the post held by the doctor , rather than the experience of the individual . |
| 25 | Royal licences to quarry stones , or to cut down and sell timber in the woods of subjects , or to bring such woods into cultivation , or to pasture cattle therein , were frequently preceded by such an inquiry held by the Justice of the Forest or his deputy . |
| 26 | Notes : Cash held by a bank must be sufficient to meet customer needs . |
| 27 | Banks ' daily holdings of cash fluctuate as a result of transactions between the government and the public ; bank cash held by the discount houses is used to smooth out these fluctuations . |
| 28 | To understand the act it is therefore necessary to discover the meaning held by the actors . |
| 29 | At least two ‘ campaigns ’ are now up-and-running offering to fill the place held by the demised Vulcan Association ( VA ) . |
| 30 | The record held by a Frenchmen stands at 44 knots that 's around 50 mph . |