Example sentences of "[noun pl] hold by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Following revelations about British Gas 's contribution to the destruction of Ecuadorean rainforest [ see ED 48 ] , new information has come to light concerning far larger concessions held by the company in Gabon . |
| 2 | Listing the offices held by the pair was not done for information purposes — every five-year-old knew who they were — but to assert their authority . |
| 3 | However , in December the government achieved a breakthrough in its protracted campaign to trace and retrieve the huge sums believed to have been looted from the country by the Marcos family , when the Swiss Supreme Court ruled that funds held by the family in Swiss bank accounts should be returned to the government of the Philippines , but stipulated that this could be done only after a Philippines ' court had ruled against Marcos [ see p. 37961 ] . |
| 4 | There was a special problem in the fact that castles held by the Lusignan family and particularly by the Counts of Angoulême could at times hinder land communications between the Duke 's three administrative capitals , the old Roman and episcopal cities of Poitiers , Saintes and Bordeaux . |
| 5 | Such life or death issues are fundamental to our society , and the cases discussed in Chapter Six challenged long-established prerogatives held by the medical profession and by parents and families . |
| 6 | CACI 's BRANCHPLAN can assist in answering these questions by analysing addresses held by the branch . |
| 7 | All of the foregoing are in accordance with the lists held by the parties . |
| 8 | She sat quietly , her freckled girl 's hand just encompassing the big brown mug , as though it had alighted there , her eyes held by the blessed , blissful forsythia that filled the whole kitchen with energy , with pleasure . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's all right , Shirley , ’ Jenna managed quietly , her eyes held by the dark gaze . |
| 10 | This imbalance , in the number of sessions held by the Council compared to the Assembly , must have made it easier for the Council to usurp executive powers . |
| 11 | If the exchange rate is kept fixed , the deficit will be financed by a loss of the foreign exchange reserves held by the Bank of England or by overseas borrowing . |
| 12 | The total outflow of some $60 billion was financed by increases in the reserves held by the central banks of the industrial countries . |
| 13 | These transactions have reduced the number of blocks held by the Group in the UK from 166 to 122 , whilst increasing the average working interest in the acreage retained from 26 per cent to 29 per cent . |
| 14 | On April 20 an SPLA spokesperson in Nairobi said that the three towns were in areas held by the Nasir group and that in areas held by Garang 's forces almost 150,000 villagers and displaced persons were without food aid . |
| 15 | SCOForum ‘ 92 is the largest of the eight annual technical and marketing seminar weeks held by the Santa Cruz Operation so far . |
| 16 | The loss in the general election of one of the Nevis seats held by the NRP ( which had retained four seats in the December 1987 elections to the Nevis island Assembly ) to the CCM ( which had gained the remaining elective seat ) revived speculation about the eventual secession of Nevis from the federation . |
| 17 | Following December As enlarged 1990 election after unification* CDU 268 248 FDP 79 57 CSU 51 57** Governing coalition 398 362 SPD 239 226 Greens 0 Alliance 90 8 49 PDS 17 24 Others 0 2 Total 662 663 *For seat distribution immediately before unification see p. 37762. **Includes eight seats held by the DSU . |
| 18 | By the beginning of 1991 the number of seats held by the CIP had increased from 12 to 14 — one member of the DP having defected to the CIP , and the sole independent member having joined the CIP — thereby giving the party , in alliance with the DTP , the two-thirds majority required to enact constitutional changes . |
| 19 | This issue had been a major stumbling block , as any equalization of representation almost inevitably meant a relative reduction in the current number of seats held by the country 's most heavily populated provinces , Ontario and Quebec . |
| 20 | This issue had been a major stumbling block , as any equalization of representation almost inevitably meant a relative reduction in the current number of seats held by the country 's most heavily populated provinces , Ontario and Quebec . |
| 21 | ( Hitherto , information about these and other studies has not been published , but they are covered by the regular workshops held by the IMS to promote the approach . ) |
| 22 | It was suggested that a dominant ideology was perhaps any widely shared set of ideas that was also powerful ( meaning , presumably , those ideas held by the government ) . |
| 23 | The Chadwick Collection is an important addition to the collections held by the Museum 's Library and Records Centre and concerning the aviation industry in the North West . |
| 24 | There are cushions like the World Food Programme and the stocks held by the major grain producers , but emergencies and poor harvests could run them down very quickly . |
| 25 | ( h ) Stocks held by the UK Group Companies |
| 26 | Stocks held by the UK Group Companies are to be valued at the lower of cost ( including all relevant overhead expenditure and external sub-contractor costs of processing stock ) and net realisable value [ excluding freight costs ] after making due allowance for obsolete items , slow moving items , unusable items , unsaleable items and nonstandard items . |
| 27 | ( h ) Stocks held by the UK Group Companies |
| 28 | Stocks held by the UK Group Companies are to be valued at the lower of cost ( calculated as direct materials and labour and an appropriate allocation of manufacturing overhead ) and net realisable value [ excluding freight costs and disposal costs ] . |
| 29 | In September the Council warned that wheat stocks held by the five biggest exporters — Argentina , Australia , Canada , the European Commodities and the USA , were set to fall by the end of the 1989-90 season to levels not seen since the food crisis of the mid-1970's . |
| 30 | In Minister for Arts , Heritage and Environment v. Peko-Wallsend the property in question comprised mining rights held by the respondents in an area known as Kakadu National Park , Stage 2 . |