Example sentences of "[adv] held [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth rose too , suddenly held by a despair more absolute than any she 'd yet felt . |
| 2 | In Whessoe 's case they offered shareholders one new share for every four already held at a price of 185p to raise funds to purchase the Californian-based Varec . |
| 3 | ‘ Surely Uncle Rivers and Sir Thomas Vaughan are not held in a dungeon ! ’ |
| 4 | The outgoing Cabinet Secretary , Mayumi Moriyama , who had occupied the most senior post ever held by a woman , was reported to have been furious at her summary dismissal . |
| 5 | Someone was taking a frightful chance I felt ; these games were always held on a Sunday and the English community in Baghdad came out to the camp as several matches were played in the afternoon . |
| 6 | The post , held by Conable since July 1986 [ see p. 34904 ] , was traditionally held by a US national . |
| 7 | The arrangement of the same data that has been shown in Figs. 8.1 and 8.2 , but now held as a multilist , is shown in Fig. 8.3 . |
| 8 | It is now held in a gilt frame mounted with pearls and precious stones en cabochon . |
| 9 | Mr Badillo will run for the post of city comptroller , now held by a fellow-Democrat , Elizabeth Holtzman . |
| 10 | Foreign exchange can be thought of as all liquid claims to currency payable abroad held by a country 's residents . |
| 11 | A framework for interpreting memory results for complex stimuli was discussed in the introduction , this was the idea that memory results depend on the type of schema subjects previously held for a situation . |
| 12 | Almost all previous contact with the Board had been through courses of one or two days duration — mostly held on a trainee 's farm ( but also at local education colleges in England and Wales ) , with up to 70% of the time being spent on trainee participation and practice . |