Example sentences of "hold in place [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cassock had a thin hood , held in place over the attendant 's head and face by what looked like the brim from an old and worn red hat ; it was squeezed down over the attendant 's head , the top of the hood showing through where the hat 's crown should have been . |
| 2 | The workpiece is held in place on the template using toggle clamps . |
| 3 | It can be held in place by the battens . |
| 4 | Handkerchiefs held in place by the nose clips of sunglasses alleviated some of the worst effects but the speed of burning was staggering . |
| 5 | Plant cells typically contain a sac of water within the cytoplasm ( a vacuole ) which is held in place by the cellulose cell wall , and the whole water-filled cell provides an excellent building block . |
| 6 | Water in the pores of rock and soil in the unsaturated zone of the ground is held in place by the same forces of surface tension . |
| 7 | A grass collection box at the rear is easy to attach and empty : it simply locates on wedge-shaped protrusions under the flap , and is held in place by the flap , which fits into a recess on top of the box . |
| 8 | Atoms consist of a densely packed positively charged nucleus encircled by negatively charged electrons all held in place by the electrical attraction of opposite charges . |