Example sentences of "[pron] [be] hold by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I am held by the sound of Summerchild 's voice . |
| 2 | Note that there are twelve Runefangs , ten of which are held by the Elector Counts and two by the Imperial armoury . |
| 3 | Mr Ashdown must now pin his hopes on efforts to target vulnerable Tory seats , such as Bath , which is held by the Tory chairman , Mr Patten . |
| 4 | It must also be remembered that they have certain rights while in the Department 's care not only in physical terms but also in relation to information which is held by the Department about them as individuals . |
| 5 | In the latter case , the registrar is bound to register the transfer as he holds the land certificate ( in contrast to the charge certificate , which is held by the mortgagee ) unless there is a restriction on the proprietorship register requiring the consent of the mortgagee to such transfer . |
| 6 | It was held in Chamberlain v IRC 25 TC 317 that where assets settled by X were invested in shares in a company controlled by the settlor , the whole of the capital of which was held by the trustees themselves , the income arising in the company did not arise from property comprised in the settlement within the meaning of TA 1988 , s672(1) . |
| 7 | She was held by the disturbing events of the night , and here was her chance to wait out a better understanding of them on the spot . |
| 8 | He had certainly researched Grantham and Marsh and the testimonial Sebastian had purportedly given her was in line with the high regard in which she had been told she was held by the company , although she 'd hardly expected to be given such a glowing recommendation . |
| 9 | Lawrence , a child of Water Orton , a suburban lacuna on the outskirts of Birmingham , spent the dreaded '80s as the leader of Felt , a semi-legendary indie pop outfit whose dearth of sales was inversely matched by the affection and wonky respect in which they were held by the choosier pop consumer . |
| 10 | So also , where an impoverished family left their accommodation on receipt of a distress warrant for rent arrears rather than wait for an eviction order , they were held by the House of Lords to have become homeless intentionally and this encouraged local housing authorities to require such orders before accepting such homeless applicants . |
| 11 | Obviously investment trusts ' management expenses need to be paid and corporation tax paid , again reducing the value of the shares relative to the underlying assets if they were held by the investor . |
| 12 | The wider the areas covered by the theory , the less certain is the theory 's explanation likely to be and the more tentatively will it be held by the scientific community . |
| 13 | So if there is no son , as during George VI 's reign , it is held by the monarch . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He held the same office under Richard III ( apart from a few months when it was held by the duke of Buckingham ) and as the main financial officer in south Wales was largely responsible for funding royal servants such as Tyrell and Richard Newton . |
| 16 | 716 , it was held by the Court of Appeal ( Parker and Nourse L.JJ. , Oliver L.J . |
| 17 | It was held by the Lord Ordinary ( Lord Wheatley ) and a majority of the First Division that the corporation was not liable to purchase tax on stationery manufactured by it and supplied to its public service departments but was liable to the tax on stationery supplied to its trading departments . |
| 18 | It was held by the Court of Appeal that the bank was not affected by the improprieties committed towards the defendants by the director and solicitors of S. Ltd. , and that the charge was enforceable . |
| 19 | 353 in which it was held by the Divisional Court ( Glidewell L.J . |
| 20 | In In re Leighton 's Conveyance [ 1937 ] Ch. 149 it was held by the Court of Appeal that a statutory provision providing that ‘ a poor person shall not be ordered to pay any costs ’ did not affect a mortgagee litigant 's right to add his litigation costs to the mortgage security . |
| 21 | Thus in Reg. v. Pestano [ 1981 ] Crim.L.R. 397 it was held by the Court of Appeal that the credibility of evidence given by a witness inconsistent with a statement previously made by him was a matter for the jury to consider , subject to a proper warning by the judge as to the weight to be attached to the evidence . |
| 22 | It was held by the Court of Common Pleas that the plaintiffs were entitled to be paid the reward due to them by the overseers who were in office at the date of sentence on the ground that until the keepers of the disorderly house had been sentenced there had been no conviction . |
| 23 | It was held by the H.L. that he was not . |
| 24 | On demurrer it was held by the majority of the Court of Queen 's Bench that while the authorities had until then confined liability for enticement to the relation between master and servant ( which that between Lumley and Wagner clearly was not ) yet the plaintiff 's claim succeeded . |
| 25 | He was seen doing so by a policeman and arrested , but it was held by the Divisional Court that he should not have been convicted , since on those facts ( even accepting that the conduct was insulting ) no breach of the peace was likely . |
| 26 | It was held by the Divisional Court that they should not have done so , and the case was remitted with directions to the magistrates to ascertain whether or not the ingredients of the offence were made out . |
| 27 | It was held by the Divisional Court that his appeal against conviction of the obstruction offence must be allowed . |
| 28 | In this case it was held by the European Court that where the Community has exercised an express internal power , the corresponding external powers , that is , the power to negotiate an international agreement relating to external aspects of the same matter , fell within Community competence . |
| 29 | He held the same office under Richard III ( apart from a few months when it was held by the duke of Buckingham ) and as the main financial officer in south Wales was largely responsible for funding royal servants such as Tyrell and Richard Newton . |
| 30 | It was held by the Court of Appeal that the pilot 's drunkenness was so extreme and obvious that participating in the flight was like engaging in an intrinsically and obviously dangerous occupation . |