Example sentences of "[be] hold [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again continental drift may be held to account for the remarkable similarity of the Upper Carboniferous ( Pennsylvanian ) Coal Measures on both sides of what one of the airlines now likes to call the " Atlantic River " . |
| 2 | TV became both an arena in which political discussion is carried on , like the House of Commons or a party meeting , and simultaneously a medium in which politicians could be held to account before the people . |
| 3 | ‘ that a person who has entered into the contract may either affirm or avoid such contract after the duress has ceased ; and if he has so voluntarily acted under it with a full knowledge of all the circumstances he may be held bound on the ground of ratification , or if , after escaping from the duress , he takes no steps to set aside the transaction he may be found to have affirmed it . ’ |
| 4 | NEWCASTLE will not be held to ransom in the chase for QPR 's Pounds 5 million man Les Ferdinand . |
| 5 | Whether the same principle should be held to apply in the case of public authorities other than the Crown charged with the enforcement of the law falls to be decided in the present case . |
| 6 | It may be that neither statement need be held to subtract from the other , but there could well be some dispute as to which of the two is the more deeply entrenched in the novel . |
| 7 | A second referendum would then be held to coincide with the next general election , due by November 1993 , when voters would be asked to make a straight choice between the MMP proposal and the existing system . |
| 8 | In the evening a fun event will be held to get into the swing of things . |
| 9 | Auctions were held to sell off the town lots , those nearest the station being the most expensive . |
| 10 | But in more robust days , you would have been more likely to come upon a coven up there , since the summit of La Rhune was one of several places in the Basque lands where witches were held to convene during the very ugly years of persecution early in the seventeenth century — then it was , according to the local inquisitors , that English and Scottish travellers arriving by sea in Bordeaux saw veritable armies of devils making their way towards south-western France . |
| 11 | The former would be the province of the Atlantic military alliance that Britain hoped the United States would create , while the latter were held to fall under the purview of the body established to administer the Marshall Plan . |
| 12 | In this context ‘ air ’ means the varying amounts of water as vapour or small droplets that were held suspended in the atmosphere . |
| 13 | It is an even wilder dream to imagine that it would get such a majority that it could escape from being held to ransom by the 25 Members who signed the amendment . |
| 14 | The power of the elite is held to derive from the greater intensity and quality of the sentiments or residues of its members which give its members the will and the ability to maintain their own rule either by force or by consent ( but not usually both , according to Pareto ) . |
| 15 | The concurrent formation of CS-X and X-US associations is held to interfere with the formation of the target , CS-US , association . |
| 16 | As latent inhibition is held to depend on the integrity of the context — stimulus association , both these procedures should alleviate the retarding effect of pre-exposure to the stimulus . |
| 17 | In the new classical theory , Friedman 's conviction that money is neutral in the medium term is held to apply to the short run also . |
| 18 | In this case the bill of lading ( i.e. the document given by the shipowner acknowledging that he has received the goods ) will usually indicate that the goods are held according to the seller 's instructions . |
| 19 | The most important of these , from a behavioural point of view , are held to happen in the first five years of life . |
| 20 | Thus either the comparative inefficiency of one hemisphere in dealing with the information presented and/or a reduction in stimulus fidelity consequent upon hemispheric transfer are held to account for the advantage obtained for a particular half of the visual field . |
| 21 | The logic of this has been held to extend to the situation where the person interposes by advising his friend of his legal rights ; the courts have held that this too amounts to obstruction . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , it was impossible to ignore the fact that the overall percentage of registered electors voting in favour , at 64.51 per cent in Latvia and 64.49 per cent in Estonia , fell short of the two-thirds majority which would have meant victory if the referendums had been held according to the April 1990 USSR legislation on the secession of a republic [ see pp. 37361-62 ] . |
| 23 | So , for example , in disciplinary hearings , natural justice has been held to apply on the ground that , as allegations have been made against a person , justice demands a right to answer these allegations . |
| 24 | No figure can be put on the number of years for which such a procession must have been held to qualify for the exemption ; any figure that is imposed is likely to be arbitrary . |
| 25 | A tow chain has been held not to be a ‘ part ’ ( Jenkins v Deane ( 1933 ) , 103 LJKB 250 ) but a tow bar connecting a vehicle and a trailer together has been held to come within the regulation where the joining was defective ( O'Neill v Brown 119611 1 QB 420 ) , |
| 26 | There does not seem to me to be anything in the policy of the new Act which suggests that in this provision Parliament was intending to give those words a different meaning from those which they had been held to bear under the Act of 1914 . |
| 27 | Similarly , part of a room that projected above ground level into the property conveyed has been held to pass in the conveyance ( Laybourn v Gridley [ 1892 ] 2 Ch 53 ) . |
| 28 | This sabotage was held to fall within the conduct prohibited by section 1 . |
| 29 | This morning a special meeting was held to look to the future . |
| 30 | The government formed an emergency economic committee , but on March 6 a nationwide general strike was held to protest against the economic situation . |