Example sentences of "[conj] held [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Select reference books and other information materials , eg in classroom collections or the school library or held on a computer , and use organisational devices , eg chapter titles , subheadings , typeface , symbol keys , to find answers to their own questions . |
| 2 | Ideally , the carrier should be easy to attach to the kiteline , either by capstan fitting , as shown for the camera carrier on page 75 , or held by a stop on the line with pigs ' tail wire wound links that allow the line to be worked into the central core . |
| 3 | When two blocks of the same polymer are brought together and held at a temperature just above the T g for a time t , interdiffusion of the chains takes place from each block across the interface ( see figure 12.6 ) thereby joining the blocks together . |
| 4 | The girl 's fair hair was scraped back and held with a slide ; she wore a grey shirt , open half-way down the front , and bleached jeans . |
| 5 | These attacks , plus an incident in which two men , a Briton and a Zimbabwean , were kidnapped and held for a month by the MNR in February-March , led to renewed doubts about the security of the Beira corridor between Zimbabwe and the central Mozambican port , which provided a major fuel and transport artery for Zimbabwean trade . |
| 6 | All stretches should be gradual and held for a period of 30 seconds before release . |
| 7 | A further refinement found on some models is ‘ exposure lock ’ by means of which the exposure can he preset at a particular level and held through a shot — we shall consider the reasons for wishing to do this later ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 8 | In the 1960's , a medievalist scholar , Professor Schlomo Pines , found in a collection of Arabic manuscripts , dating from the tenth century and held in a library in Istanbul , a number of lengthy and detailed verbatim quotes from an earlier , fifth- or sixth-century , text , which the Arab writer ascribes to ‘ al-nasara ’ — the Nazareans . |
| 9 | She can shuffle while , when held in a bear hug , bear hug position by one of her parents in order for her to be transferred to a commode or to a wheelchair . |