Example sentences of "hold at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grinders should be held at a shallow angle of between 15 and 30° to the work when they are used to abrade the surface . |
| 2 | The belief expressed was that wage rates were held at a depressed level in the provinces of England compared to London . |
| 3 | The 1992 series will be held at a new venue , Abbey Community Association , 34 Great Smith Street , London SW1 3BU . |
| 4 | Costs as a matter of policy are held at a reasonable level . |
| 5 | Her arms were raised , her head was held at a strange angle , her body was rigid but trembling . |
| 6 | held at a pleasant temperature by the warm fluid circulating above and below , and enjoyably light as well , thanks to the fish . |
| 7 | A striped shirt without a collar , and trousers that were held at a slender stomach by braces , and carpet slippers in checked shades of brown , and a smell of pipe tobacco . |
| 8 | The mass will be held at a religious shrine on a road where , three years ago , hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered in the uprising which toppled the former president , Ferdinand Marcos , and installed Mrs Aquino in power . |
| 9 | AROUND sixty employees from the NW Region had the chance to get to know each other recently when they were invited to Penrith 's annual Christmas party held at a local hotel . |
| 10 | ‘ Working weekends ’ held at a local school , begin on a Saturday afternoon and last through all day Sunday . |
| 11 | Three Americans were held at a luxury flat in West London where cocaine worth £7 million was found . |
| 12 | And every now and again a Crossley tender carrying a company of Black and Tans , their guns held at a threatening angle , would butt its way through the press , its progress-retarded — sometimes even brought to a halt — by as unlikely a variety of breakdowns and traffic jams as the doggedly obstructive citizens of Cork could improvise this side of outright rebellion . |
| 13 | The trial will be held at a later date . |
| 14 | For instance , demand management might require that government spending should be held at a high level to keep the economy at full pressure , while Labour 's plans also called for a high level of State spending . |
| 15 | Each non-inverting input voltage is held at a different level , the connection nearest pin 4 being the lowest voltage , and the connection nearest pin 6 being the highest . |
| 16 | The final image is formed on a large frosted glass plate held at a convenient viewing angle . |
| 17 | They were both being held at a military prison in the town of Blida , 50 km south of Algiers . |
| 18 | The couple — who now run a pet shop in Hull — married while held at a nuclear plant in Basra , Iraq . |
| 19 | In practice the polymer solution is held at a constant temperature while precipitant is added to the stirred solution . |
| 20 | MCC bosses had hoped to deflect the rebels from insisting on the meeting , which will cost £17,000 and may well have to be held at a huge venue like Westminster Hall , by offering to pass on their views on the Gower affair to the selectors and the TCCB in an unprecedented letter of protest . |