Example sentences of "held at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of the sisters who offers an appropriate form of service to the group enables the balance to be held at rest . |
| 2 | The competition was held at thorpe Park and 2O teams competed from companies such as Asda , Kwik Save , Safeway , Tesco , Golden Wonder and many more . |
| 3 | In connection with the Festival of Britain Exhibition that was to be held at South Bank in 1951 , some major road works were carried out between Westminster Bridge and Waterloo Station , streets in that area being made ‘ one way ’ at the same time . |
| 4 | ‘ Tell Bill the quarry sat relaxed and unconcerned throughout both the incident and the enquiry held at Thunder Bay yesterday morning , and I 'm certain he did n't plan the uncoupling . |
| 5 | Barton Lynch , sitting out the qualifying rounds and waiting for the main event , recalled the 1988 Billabong , which for the first time had been held at Pipeline . |
| 6 | Following the success of last year 's inaugural event of the Great Lakes Mixed Triples tournament , the event will be held at Oak Leaf Sports Complex between May 2 and May 4 . |
| 7 | With the arrow in place , bleeding was held at bay . |
| 8 | If they were held at bay longer than they anticipated and carried into the final day , it only seemed a stay of execution for the West Indies . |
| 9 | Caught early enough , it can be held at bay . |
| 10 | A fine example was found in Lincoln in 1866 and is now in the British Museum ( fig. 14.4 ) , i others came from Richborough ( fig. 14.5 ) and from a grave at Colchester on a Castor Box on which a lion appears in a venatio and being held at bay by a nude bestiarius with a long hunting spear . |
| 11 | Within this proposed intervention , that will give the works of art contained in the gardens the status of museum objects , may lie very positive elements , provided Disneyland is firmly held at bay . |
| 12 | The result is an international system where war is an ever-present possibility , held at bay by a mixture of international law , informal conventions , and the operation of the balance-of-power mechanism . |
| 13 | The personal figure of coercion , such as the bailiff , may be held at bay through the provision of money , which allows for exchange outside of the nexus of personal social relations . |
| 14 | The fact that the ‘ natural ’ climax community for the region could be held at bay by geographical factors such as the presence of a lake showed that there was no super-organism designed to flourish in a particular region . |
| 15 | The grief and horror she would have expected to experience were somehow blunted and held at bay , though whether permanently or not she had no way of knowing . |
| 16 | Astringently if politely , Louisa had been held at bay ; till now , when at the lines : |
| 17 | There was no arrogance in it , no anger , just a gentle exploration that deepened imperceptibly until hunger and passion hovered just on the periphery , deliberately held at bay . |
| 18 | Vietnam 's economic collapse is held at bay only through massive aid from Russia amounting , by one estimate , to $3m a day . |
| 19 | It was five long years since any man — this man — had intimately touched her like this ; five years in which she 'd held at bay these deep torrents of emotion , which would not now be denied . |
| 20 | It could mean that for some patients the disease can be held at bay . |
| 21 | In practice the authority of an individual metropolitan was influenced by political factors , such as the favour in which he was held at court . |
| 22 | Notice is hereby given that the twenty-second Annual General Meeting of LASMO plc will be held at Cinema 1 , Barbican Centre , Silk Street , London EC2Y 8DS , on Tuesday 25 May 1993 at 11.30 am for the following purposes : |
| 23 | At Stretton , where there were two freeholders , most tenants held at will , and only six out eighteen can be identified in 1522 . |
| 24 | Include details of properties , revaluations , significant property holdings held at cost , and plant and machinery at nil or low net book value . |
| 25 | The first semi-final the next evening ( almost all the events were held at night ) saw Bringmann , Bryzgin , Marie-Rose and Wells all together . |
| 26 | There were disagreements among poster writers and speakers at the political forums held at night . |
| 27 | SunSoft officials like Jim Billmaier were surprised that the eight-points included in the statement were committed to paper , believing them only discussion items for an independent software vendor rally held at PC Expo in New York City last week . |
| 28 | There is a special innocence in Doisneau 's photographs of children , especially during the years when he was working with a twin-lens reflex camera held at waist level . |
| 29 | All the music here was recorded at the ‘ Fiddlesticks ’ Festival held at University College , Cork , in January of this year , before an enthusiastic audience — and a sober one , by the sound of it : although this is music that lives in the pubs , it seems to have been presented here in a concert that took it seriously , with real respect . |
| 30 | NOTES OF QUALIFIED TEACHERS ' DAY HELD AT NORTH WESTMINSTER COMMUNITY SCHOOL PENFOLD STREET W2 ON SATURDAY 18th JUNE 1988 |