Example sentences of "[vb mod] [be] hold at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grinders should be held at a shallow angle of between 15 and 30° to the work when they are used to abrade the surface . |
| 2 | In paragraph 8(b) of his affidavit the coroner states that a verdict of natural causes aggravated by lack of care is relevant only if an inquest is held and that here he was concerned with the antecedent question whether an inquest should be held at all . |
| 3 | 16–11- That he would contribute £50 and proposed that services should be held at Keills and Ballygrant alternately at the usual hours of public worship on the Sabbath . |
| 4 | She suggested that the wedding reception should be held at the Redmond house , telling Julia that it would help her mother to get over the loss of her house if she could organise the wedding . |
| 5 | Calling for a " greening of politics " , Gorbachev said that a planned 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Brasilia should be held at " summit level " . |
| 6 | For instance , demand management might require that government spending should be held at a high level to keep the economy at full pressure , while Labour 's plans also called for a high level of State spending . |
| 7 | Gregory claims that it was the king who insisted that the consecration should be held at Metz , out of affection for the candidate , but this may be a euphemism for saying that consecration in Clermont was too dangerous . |
| 8 | This must be held at half the supply voltage , and is achieved by using two resistors R2 and R3 of equal value . |
| 9 | A low vision aid must be held at the correct distance from the material to be viewed for maximum magnification to be effected , and it can be difficult to sustain this with a hand-held magnifier for any length of time . |
| 10 | The chief organ of the exchange is the general meeting of its members which must be held at least once every calendar year . |
| 11 | For example , a general election for the House of Commons must be held at least every 5 years but only certain people have access to the vote and not all votes for different parties are of equal power in the absence of proportional representation making for a close correspondence between votes cast and seats won ; the House of Lords ( once a very powerful state institution ) can now only delay bills passed by the House of Commons ; the Prime Minister " must " come from the Commons ; and it is " expected " that a government will resign and call a general election if it is defeated in a vote of confidence on the floor of the House of Commons . |
| 12 | All adults enjoy the right to vote in free general elections that must be held at least every 5 years . |
| 13 | In Britain elections to the House of Commons , from which the government is formed , must be held at least every five years ( until Parliament says otherwise ) but may be held at any time during the five years , for example there were only eight months between elections in 1974 and the average length of a parliament is around four years . |
| 14 | A child protection review must be held at least once every six months . |
| 15 | The robe could be in various colours — blue , orange , white — and might be held at the waist by a belt or cord . |
| 16 | In the meantime he 'll be held at Fairmile secure hospital at Wallingford . |
| 17 | As Henry Fosbrooke of the Tanganyika administration pointed out , these would serve the dual purpose of providing an outlet for excess Masai stock and an opportunity for the transaction of administrative business ; courts , for instance , could be held at cattle auctions . |
| 18 | Theoretically , it could be held at the ‘ Unix Perspectives : Conference for Enterprise Solutions ’ get-together that Unix Systems Labs has in train for early November ( UX 435 ) . |
| 19 | either the ninth or the tenth , it could be held here it could be held at Havstock Park . |
| 20 | The fact that the ‘ natural ’ climax community for the region could be held at bay by geographical factors such as the presence of a lake showed that there was no super-organism designed to flourish in a particular region . |
| 21 | The computer could be used to rescale the image pixel values so that the lowest value in the image ( 25 ) was interpolated onto the lowest value that the display system could accommodate ( 0 ) while the highest value in the raw image ( 90 ) was mapped to the maximum value that could be held at a pixel point in the image memory bank ( 255 ) . |
| 22 | It may be held at that important time of the first anniversary of the death , and is thus at the time when the people most bereaved may be thinking of re-engaging in life . |
| 23 | Further copies may be held at the local public library . |
| 24 | In the larger clinics the two may run concurrently , in the smaller they may be held at different times during the week . |
| 25 | The personal figure of coercion , such as the bailiff , may be held at bay through the provision of money , which allows for exchange outside of the nexus of personal social relations . |
| 26 | In Britain elections to the House of Commons , from which the government is formed , must be held at least every five years ( until Parliament says otherwise ) but may be held at any time during the five years , for example there were only eight months between elections in 1974 and the average length of a parliament is around four years . |
| 27 | A general meeting would be held at the Blenheim coffee house on 8 April to appoint a president , vice-presidents , directors , and other officers . |
| 28 | Not a single Tory seat in the country would be held at a by-election on such a swing , according to John Curtice , of Strathclyde University ; not even Christchurch , which would go Liberal Democrat on a swing of 20% . |
| 29 | It was decided that Eileen and Anne would be bridesmaids and that the wedding reception would be held at the Fitzgerald house , as Helen 's mother was a widow and a semi-invalid , and Helen was an only child . |
| 30 | Surely a business function would be held at your offices ? |