Example sentences of "[being] hold [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Most types of glider should be showing a very small amount of rudder being held on into the turn .
2 The funerals are being held today of the seven people who died when Loyalist gunmen attacked a bar at Greysteel in County Londonderry on Saturday night .
3 A crisis meeting was being held today at the National Trust 's Victorian Crown Bar opposite the Europa .
4 On the other hand , a stock of components can avoid the frustration of being held up on a project because a mundane integrated circuit is temporarily unavailable , or because you have managed to break one lead away from a 100m capacitor .
5 Missed departure cover is particularly important because there is more chance of being held up on the way to the airport in winter than in summer .
6 Torn between passion and prudence , he falls in love with a spiteful little blonde , and , even as he is being taught in class how to recognise a typical Jew by his grotesque hooked nose , he is personally being held up as an example of the ideologically acceptable East Baltic race .
7 But a decision whether nitrate contamination of water is to be reduced by curbs on land use or by treatment with untried technology is being held up by a conflict in Whitehall on whether farmers should be compensated for income losses resulting from land use controls ’ .
8 In the north-east of England , a joint proposal by International Technology Europe and Northumbrian Water for two plants designed to burn sewage sludge and organic chemicals is currently being held up by a lengthy public enquiry , with local people in strong opposition .
9 He explained the set-up ; Duncan and I were to pull an Aspel-laden rickshaw through the busy streets of Charing Cross — ignoring the irate rush-hour traffic , which was being held up by an army of floor assistants — to the steps of Charing Cross underground station .
10 Pre-tax profits this year will be lower than last year 's £42.3m and the shares , which slipped 1.5p to 127p , are only being held up by the Coats offer , worth 133p .
11 At a meeting in Harare of African finance officials in July 1989 , it was argued that development is being held up by the tendency for government policy-makers to be involved in short-term crisis management for structural adjustment programmes , and responding to the demands of large numbers of foreign advisers .
12 If I was n't being held up by the man 's gripping hand hauling me through the ferns I feel like I 'd fall down .
13 Seated at his tiny desk beneath the window , Richard was intent on the word-pictures being held up by the kindly faced tutor .
14 In the wild , the Green Chromides creche their young , a shoal being held together under the protection of the whole adult group , led by one dominant pair .
15 This is being held in at the Irish Centre on York Road in Leeds and is an informal chance to chat with current members of that group .
16 He says that the fire is being held in by the collapsed roof , they want to let air get to it so it will burn itself out .
17 I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across .
18 It is important to ensure that only current partners appear as lessees/trustees of partnership premises , if only to avoid any possibility that a retired partner who has not been duly replaced on the title could be regarded as still being held out as a member of the firm .
19 She said that while the carrot of jobs was being held out to the local community , local people would only be used for the most menial of tasks .
20 Certainly , the notion that limited liability is of itself a denial of the very skills and integrity being held out by a professional to the rest of the world may be outdated in the light of the size and type of projects now being undertaken as part of surveying practice .
21 Joffre himself was jubilant at the news of the German attacks being held all along the line , proclaiming victory and standing by to take most of the credit himself .
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