Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] hold [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ludens found himself watching Marcus , jealously , but with intense curiosity and interest and waiting as for some magisterial dispensation which would mysteriously order his own future , now so completely held in the balance . |
| 2 | Well they were just just held in the barns too . |
| 3 | But it is likely that loss of liberty was more often held against the workhouse than the belief that the subsistence provided was lower than that available from out-relief . |
| 4 | The problem comes when your parents have a slight concern for what you are doing , ( as mine do ) , + it gives the impression that you are still tightly holding to the old apron-strings . |
| 5 | According to the more experienced officers , the incessant demands for paper from headquarters divert them from more pressing tasks and display an innocence among senior staff about the nature of the job , a view the more firmly held in the knowledge that few senior men have ever worked in the field themselves ( cf. |
| 6 | Beyond , a few hundred yards distant , lay yet another summit , 100 feet higher , the true Mort Homme , which was still firmly held by the French . |
| 7 | In this case , the O 2s AO has a much lower energy than either the O 2p z AO or the symmetric combination of H 1s AOs , and is more closely held to the oxygen core than the O 2p z AO . |
| 8 | This ideal of suburban or semi-rural living has been constructed around a ‘ cult of domesticity ’ which was particularly strongly held in the post-war period . |
| 9 | A situation report from Hesse in March 1936 expressly mentions the opinion , allegedly widely held among the population in the area , though undoubtedly reflecting above all the views of Party activists , ‘ that the Führer had for outward appearances to ban individual actions against the Jews in consideration of foreign policy , but in reality was wholly in agreement that each individual should continue on his own initiative the fight against Jewry in the most rigorous and radical form ’ . |
| 10 | But this debate is never usually held in the open , and even if it is , the climate at Easter is usually more suitable . |