Example sentences of "hold [adv prt] [adv] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For one thing it seems that Ho 's reply , via Saigon , was held up deliberately by the French authorities so that it was not received in Paris until after the war had begun . |
| 2 | What a pity it is that the US government negotiating teams are allowed to give the impression that progress in the world trade negotiations is being held up solely by the intransigence of European farmers . |
| 3 | It is significant that in July 1939 , at a time when Stalin was actively negotiating the Nazi-Soviet pact with Hitler , Nizan was quoting Zhdanov to the effect that the finalising of the tripartite peace agreement was being held up solely by the delaying tactics of France and Great Britain . |
| 4 | Four or five storeys high , they tottered against each other , held up only by the shells of neighbouring structures , their innards shrivelled up by fire , a real Dresden of a street . |
| 5 | Significantly , it has been held back also by the absence of concepts suited to expressing the psychological processes involved in perception . |