Example sentences of "held by [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of Spain was held by Muslims , wrongfully , as the Christians saw it ; the emperor of León laid claim to the rest of the peninsula . |
| 2 | It should also be borne in mind that the directors control 56% of the company , with the balance held by shareholders not involved with the daily running of the business . |
| 3 | The equity method is generally used for a holding of 20-50% of the outstanding voting shares ( that is , shares which have been issued and which are currently held by shareholders ) because it is assumed , on the basis of this level of ownership , that an investor has the ability to exert significant influence in the affairs of the company . |
| 4 | In boxing too , blacks continued to participate : out of 448 professional boxers registered with the BBBC in 1981 , approximately one-third were black and four out of the ten British titles were held by boxers of West Indian origin or descent and Cornelius Boza-Edwards , a Ugandan who moved to London in 1974 , won the world superfeatherweight title in 1981 . |
| 5 | The House of Lords Select Committee on the EC has welcomed the proposed Directive on the Freedom of Management and Investment of Funds held by Institutions for Retirement Provision . |
| 6 | Most of the shares are held by institutions that have yet to be privatised . |
| 7 | If we accept that the ratio of assets held by institutions is a matter of careful choice and that normally their asset portfolio is in equilibrium , then it follows that the loss of notes and coin produces a secondary effect . |
| 8 | This is an important concession and reads as follows : B18 Payments out of a discretionary trust : entitlement to relief from UK tax under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts or of a double taxation agreement If a payment made by trustees falls to be treated as a net amount in accordance with TA 1988 s.687(2) and the income arising under the trust includes income in respect of which the beneficiary would , if such income came to him directly instead of through trustees , be entitled to relief under the provisions of the Income Tax Acts , eg TA 1988 , s.278 ( claims for personal reliefs by non-residents ) ; TA 1988 s.47 ( claims for exemption from tax on certain UK Government securities held by persons not ordinarily resident in the UK ) ; TA 1988 ss.48 , 123 ( claims for exemption from UK tax on income from overseas securities by persons not resident in the UK ) ; or under the terms of a double taxation agreement , such relief will be granted to the beneficiary on a claim made by him to the extent that the payment is of income which arose to the trustees not earlier than in the year 1973 – 74 and not earlier than six years before the end of the year of assessment in which the payment was made , provided that the trustees have submitted for each year trust returns which are supported by the relevant income tax certificates and which detail all sources of trust income arising and payments made to beneficiaries . |
| 9 | Immigration regulations specify that the names on the passports and tickets held by customers must be the same . |
| 10 | The company is also said to have been the beneficial owner of £346,800 held by solicitors in London . |
| 11 | They had unwound their arms from round each other , and they sat on either side of the small table , held by brackets to the bulkhead . |
| 12 | The abrupt cessation of homage without some alternative ceremony would have divided a kingdom into two distinct parts : those parts held by laymen , for which homage was owed to the king , and those parts held by clergy , for which homage was forbidden . |
| 13 | Slater and Gearing ( 1988 ) suggest that these negative views of mental health in later life are held by professionals as well as the wider society . |
| 14 | In the Chester Diocese , opinion is split on women priests , though a vote held by clergymen came out 40 to 33 in favour of the ordination of women . |
| 15 | Of the 210 seats 128 were held by deputies belonging to the Latvian Popular Front [ see p. 37461 ] . |
| 16 | Much of what has been deduced about the institutionalized authority held by bishops in the late fifth and early sixth century , over and above their canonical jurisdiction , depends on episcopal epitaphs : it is not easy to distinguish fact from topos in such documents . |
| 17 | Unfortunately these findings can not support or reject the reservations held by critics of the scheme . |
| 18 | The stereotypical views held by agents of social control will tend to suggest that women are less delinquent and crime-prone than men , that they are not ‘ real ’ criminals . |
| 19 | As most of the higher ecclesiastical posts were held by Germans , there was also a nationalist element to the movement . |
| 20 | However , the Mole was still held by Germans , and moving back to the Old Entrance Bob Ryder saw that somebody — a party from an ML ? |
| 21 | The proportion of Sri Lankan judges received a further boost in 1923 when it was decided to fill most posts from the local bar , and by 1930 eighteen of forty-two appointments were held by lawyers . |
| 22 | Under the Conservatives , government departments will ‘ adopt a strategic approach to the employment and development of women staff ’ and will ‘ publish plans for between a quarter and a half of public appointments to be held by women by 1996 ’ . |
| 23 | Departments will publish plans for between a quarter and a half of public appointments to be held by women by 1996 . |
| 24 | The pear-shaped ‘ image of the Holy Mother of God ’ , which was held by women in labour , is expected to be sold for around £1 500 on November 24 . |
| 25 | It ignores the different interests held by women within the categories of ‘ black women ’ , ‘ young women ’ , and ‘ lesbians ’ , which Morgan recognized when she compiled her book . |
| 26 | Among those jobs classified as Social Class 1 by the Registrar General at the 1981 Census , only one in ten was held by women . |
| 27 | were held by women with experience in youth and social work . |
| 28 | While our senior sales and marketing staff tend to be men , in the USA and Australia , for example , such senior positions are held by women . |
| 29 | According to government statistics women earned on average one-third less than men in 1989 , and less than 4 per cent of top business jobs were held by women . |
| 30 | Examining July 1992 figures for the number of women councillors in district , regional and island councils , Labour had 703 of the 1,681 seats , of which 132 , or 19 per cent , were held by women . |