Example sentences of "be hold by the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too .
2 We have been forecasting for some time that the future of applications development would become the linking of objects , and that the keys to the kingdom would be held by the companies that sold the best objects , and Novell Inc seems to think so too .
3 The House of Lords held that the cause of action accrued at vesting date , even though the appellants could not have proved the moneys were held by the respondents as authorised undertakers until the minister so decided .
4 Thus the case was presented on the footing that the documents concerned had come into being and were held by the solicitors for their client as the result of a suspected intent by a third party to use them for the purpose of furthering his criminal activity .
5 On the coast , the middling types of position were held by the mestizos , the people of mixed race which could include African , European , and Chinese .
6 But this decision was distinguished in a later case where , in all relevant respects , the wording of the article was similar but the shares were held by the executors of a deceased shareholder .
7 In 1960 , 94 per cent of House seats in the South were held by the Democrats , a figure that declined to 68 per cent by 1972 .
8 Other rights were held by the householders of the rest of Devon , who were classed as ‘ strangers ’ or ‘ foreigners ’ and were allowed to depasture beasts on the commons of Devon surrounding the forest , without payment , and on the forest only on payment of certain small fees .
9 Instead of putting him on a charge , the governor took the knife out of his hand and , while the prisoner was still being held by the officers , slashed his face .
10 Th the only reason there might not , i i i if they 're not getting enough it is because erm ei either too much land is being held by the landlords because the cadres are , or the cadres taking the land .
11 A list of companies who carry out these disparity valuations is held by the personnel manager .
12 Apart from these cases , the entire property , other than that in which the deceased 's interest ceased at his death , is held by the executors or administrators on trust for sale , in the first instance for the payment of his debts , and then for distribution as laid down in the Intestates ’ Estates Act 1952 , which has replaced the relevant provisions of the Act of 1925 .
13 These shares are held by the investors , and on the triggering of the ratchet — the achievement of certain projections or market capitalisation on a flotation , for example — all or some of the convertible redeemable preference shares will be redeemed ; but if the results fall short of what is expected then they will be converted into ordinary shares and as a result increase the investor 's share of the equity at the expense of the proportion held by management .
14 In fact , in the early Merovingian period it seems to have been held by the rulers of the eastern kingdom , but after Sigibert I 's murder in 575 half of it was handed over to Guntram , presumably to cement an alliance between the young Childebert II and his uncle .
15 Between Frisia in the north and Bavaria in the south , the frontier inherited by Charles was held by the Thuringians , who were ruled by Frankish counts .
16 In fact , one year later another " regular casual " employed by another large London hotel was held by the courts to be an employee , with the " Gardiner and Taverna " ruling being used as justification for this decision .
17 Very soon after the enactment of the 1846 Act it was held by the courts that the action was based upon financial loss and nothing else .
18 It was held in Chamberlain v IRC 25 TC 317 that where assets settled by X were invested in shares in a company controlled by the settlor , the whole of the capital of which was held by the trustees themselves , the income arising in the company did not arise from property comprised in the settlement within the meaning of TA 1988 , s672(1) .
19 Each time Kandy was held by the invaders for only a short period .
20 On 31 October of that year , 1990 , the annual review of the case of the W family was held by the Children 's Panel .
21 In Germany the northern border was held by the Frisians , and the southern border by the Bavarians .
22 The Coroner was irritated with the proceedings , and with the transparent fact that not all the information that was held by the men in the court-room had been made available to him .
23 A parcel worth £2. 6s. 8d. at Stony Stratford was held by the executors of the late Sir Edward Belknap .
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