Example sentences of "[adj] hold [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scouts from Notts , Lincs , Derbys and Leics have smashed the world record for a canoe raft of 376 held by the People 's Youth Movement of Singapore last year . |
| 2 | Before it , the talk in the High Court corridors was that Meehan would be acquitted for lack of evidence , but it was a view that few held by the time it was finished . |
| 3 | France 's League of Nations mandate extended across Syria and Lebanon , just as the British mandate encompassed Palestine , Transjordan and Iraq — with all the consequences this held for the future . |
| 4 | So what does 1991 hold for the man who has survived several years of mental agony and still found the strength to come smiling through ? |
| 5 | Johnson rejected the proposal for the elections , which in any case were clearly impossible to hold within the time proposed . |
| 6 | The magnificent sculpture collections of the 19C are all held in the Castle of Zbraslav ( see p.181 ) . |
| 7 | A variety of opinions was expressed in Committee , and at the end of our debates some of the opinions were slightly different from those held at the start of our Committee proceedings . |
| 8 | Teaching and lecturing staff rarely have the time needed to identify , obtain , understand and analyse complex datasets such as those held on the Data Archive . |
| 9 | Partial offers are not very common in the UK because where the offer is for 30 per cent or more of the voting rights it can only succeed if shareholders holding over 50 per cent of the voting rights of the target company ( excluding those held by the offeror and its concert parties ) vote in favour of the offer ( Rule 36.5 ) . |
| 10 | I trust that Mr. Shelford 's comments are not those held by the staff of RW&P or in future issues can we look forward to ‘ Wayne 's Top 10 maiming tips for mini 's ’ or ‘ Eye gouging and ear biting for beginners ’ . |
| 11 | The Queen of Beauty appears in image ; she may be glimpsed in a portrait , a miniature held in the hand of a knight or warrior as he rides off to battle ; she may appear on film or television screen and be adored by millions . |
| 12 | It shines , on a silvered copper plate , which is solid to hold in the hand — but the image is evanescent , even when the plate is tilted to just the correct angle to the eye ( like looking at a hologram today ) and the street becomes magically present in all the exorbitant detail that the Daguerreotype possessed . |
| 13 | With a full house of 185 at last Tuesday 's event in Edinburgh University , part-funded by Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise , it is arguably the first held by the IoD , that predominantly male organisation , where the overwhelming majority was female . |
| 14 | In 14th century it was split into two portions , one held by the Carents , the other by the Talbots of Godlingston . |
| 15 | From the Catalogue of a Retrospective Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings by Basil Rocke 1904 — 1966 held at the Harrogate Art Gallery , April 29th — May 21st , 1976 |
| 16 | At the Dissolution of the Monasteries , Nostell Priory was granted to Dr Leigh and the fair held by the canons at their church at Woodkirk , otherwise known as West Ardsley , became known as Lee Gap Fair . |
| 17 | Civic design was as much concerned with the spaces between buildings as with the appearance of the buildings themselves , and the same held for the design of residential areas . |
| 18 | Half the men were already straggling back into the Residency building or into the hospital in order to form a new position while the remainder did their best to hold off the sepoys who were already swarming over the ramparts . |
| 19 | Would you prefer one QT Day in London and the other two held in the Home Counties ? |
| 20 | As was said above , our data is at least as clean as that held at the Census Offices , if not more so . |
| 21 | The largest survey since that held at the Pompidou in 1951 , it will include 164 works by Laurens dating from 1915 to 1954 , drawn from public and private collections in Europe , the States and Israel . |
| 22 | This is charged to the opposite potential to that held by the droplet and attracts the ink into the paper . |
| 23 | Studying the results of the general election of 1974 , the latest held before the publication of its Report , the Commission could have come across some disconcerting figures . |
| 24 | Around three in ten of those who reported paid work within 10 years of their first birth had returned to a different type of job that was likely to have been worse paid than the one they last held before the maternity . |