Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's not a simple process , the ewes can reject the lambs , so she 's held in this restraint while the lamb is introduced , giving it a chance to suckle and allowing the mother to get used to it . |
| 2 | That was in keeping with the respect in which she is held for her tireless work , especially on behalf of the world 's children . |
| 3 | Recent information from the Amnesty International Medical Group indicates that she is held in almost complete isolation and that her health is now at risk . |
| 4 | It plays world and indie music , it has face-painters and babies , and , if you 're interested , it 's held in the Town Hall in Shoreditch on Saturday nights . |
| 5 | It 's held by a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle from Pasadena , California , which has covered an incredible 1,402,515 miles . |
| 6 | If I move as privately as possible , it is to hold off the fools and rogues until the thing has a chance of success . |
| 7 | It is held at two famous courses on the Kent coast in the early spring , when the cold is invariably at its most insidious and the winds at their fiercest . |
| 8 | Ahusquy is , in its minuscule way , a spa , because on the hillside above it , a healthy kilometre 's walk from the road and the small hotel , is a source you can drink from — it is held to be good for kidney and bladder sufferers . |
| 9 | Now when there is excess flood water it is held between them and let out slowly later . |
| 10 | So if there is no son , as during George VI 's reign , it is held by the monarch . |
| 11 | It is held by Moslems to contain all the essentials of their belief , and to be a collection of passages of direct revelation uttered by Mohammed ( although not all written down during his lifetime ) . |
| 12 | A Microsoft Corp staffer is reported to have told Sun Microsystems Inc that Microsoft would make Windows such a moving target that Sun , with its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface , could not keep up ( CI No 2,147 ) : if the tale is true and Microsoft means it , it means that the company has learned a little too well from its long cohabitation with IBM , and that the seeds of its own destruction are now being sown — for years , IBM added features and tweaked its mainframes with no thought of improving them from the user 's point of view , but simply to trip up competitors , and once a dominant company starts resorting to such tactics , it fatally injures the regard with which it is held by the outside world , and is embarking on the slippery slope that leads to the debacle IBM finds itself in today . |
| 13 | It is held by others , however , that a large part of the relative decline was the inevitable sequel of having been a pioneer in industrialization . |
| 14 | It is held in a double-skinned tank which is filled with hot water to raise the temperature of the milk . |
| 15 | Within living cells , it is held in a three-dimensional network of proteins to form the sponge-like cytoplasm , and this in turn is enclosed in a flexible protein-fat membrane . |
| 16 | This smith-god wears the leather apron and holds a pair of long-handled tongs , from which a small billet has fallen ; , and it is held in his left hand , presumably the right held a hammer . |
| 17 | The conservative outlook entails a particular conception of God ( and of Christ ) , an understanding of which it can not simply be said that it is held in common by all Christians : something I think often not recognized by conservatives themselves . |
| 18 | As the droplet leaves the jet it is held in position by an electric field which further propels it towards the paper . |
| 19 | He is available for the first working party meeting on Monday 18th January , and I suggest it is held in Aberystwyth at 2pm . |
| 20 | ‘ It is a unique paper , ’ he says , ‘ and it is held in such affection because , no matter where Ulster people are , it is the one which keeps them in touch with ALL the local sport , whether its football and rugby or darts and pigeon racing . ’ |
| 21 | Generally , once a settlor has put property into a settlement he will have alienated the income therefrom for income tax purposes for the period that it is held in trust . |
| 22 | He is held to be efficient , fair-minded , scrupulously honest , and is well-liked by his colleagues . |
| 23 | Now , when I touch his cheek with my finger , he responds normally , but not as quickly as he responds when he is held to the breast . |
| 24 | ‘ But you know already that he is held within the Dark Ireland and that he is captive in a deep and subtle enchantment . |
| 25 | As a schoolmaster and later a headmaster his distinction was unexceeded by any in his profession , and the affection in which he is held by his former pupils is equal to that accorded to the legendary Mr Chips . |
| 26 | " The dangerous feature of these unions " , wrote one such shipowner , " is that they really are benevolent societies and as such will necessarily accumulate funds , giving their members a contingent interest in those funds and therefore if a man should wish to retire from them as combinations , he is held by interest in them and consequently they must always be in operation " . |
| 27 | He is held in the highest esteem by all who know him . |
| 28 | ‘ He is held in thrall to the Dark Ireland , but it was not my enchantment that chained him . ’ |
| 29 | South African authorities have for the first time permitted Mr Nelson Mandela to talk by telephone with exiled leaders of the African National Congress from the prison where he is held near Cape Town . |
| 30 | It means Jim Courier retains the pole position he 's held for all but 12 weeks of 1992 . |