Example sentences of "holding [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two minutes later , Mother was holding half a trout rod . |
| 2 | He could understand — so he said to the top brass after the Frenchman had departed — why the French took exception to an Englishman holding such a key position in Europe . |
| 3 | DEC has named Unix whiz-kid Alan Nemeth , the technical leader of DEC 's Unix development , a corporate consulting engineer , one of only sixteen people holding such a title at the firm . |
| 4 | The Lickbarrow v. Mason decisions by the House of Lords were the first ( at least in Anglo-American law ) to establish that a consignor 's right to stop the goods before they reached the consignee was subordinate to the rights of the consignee 's endorsee holding such a bill . |
| 5 | ( 2 ) A licensing board may , on an application made to it in that behalf by : ( a ) the executors , representatives or disponees of any person who held a licence in respect of premises situated within the area of the board and who has died before the expiry of the licence ; or ( b ) the trustee , judicial factor or curator bonis of any person holding such a licence who has become bankrupt , insolvent or incapable before the expiry of the licence ; transfer the licence to the applicant if the applicant is in possession of the premises . |
| 6 | How ever none of this really detracted from the pleasure of seeing and holding such a splendid fish — I had caught my two-pound roach , nothing could take that away from me . |
| 7 | On July 23 a UN fact-finding mission was to begin a visit to the region , to assess the logistical difficulties of holding such a referendum before March 1991 , as well as to assess the scale and cost of the necessary supervision . |
| 8 | In other words , holding constant the controlled domain , hierarchy increases as authorized decision-making becomes more concentrated amongst people in an organization . |
| 9 | The figure that we have come up with in fact is derived by holding constant the numbers rather than the rate of vacant dwellings through to the year two thousand and six , which implies that by the year two thousand six , we 'd have would have a vacancy rate of six point two percent or or thereabouts . |
| 10 | You must then perform a small conjuring trick — holding all the layers of the picture firmly together , turn the frame and picture upside down and place on the table , then fix on the hardboard back . |
| 11 | ‘ The French are in Frasnes , and we 're holding all the farms beyond the stream . |
| 12 | And then we were held up at a place because some of our tanks e e the seventy ninth armoured division was er holding all the special tanks er which were flamethrowers and flails and all these sort of things . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's got a teacher bossing him around who 's about four years older than he is , if that , and a lot less self-confident , but holding all the aces . |
| 14 | The brilliant spell of weather was still holding good the following morning . |
| 15 | He ended the War holding both the Croix de Guerre and the petainiste decoration , the ‘ francisque ’ . |