Example sentences of "held together [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silver caps were bonded with copper rivets by heating the two while held together under pressure . |
| 2 | The stones of the wall did not seem to be held together with mortar , but instead they were keyed so that each lay on the other with hardly a sign of a join . |
| 3 | The rue de Fleuve is a steep , narrow lane with the church on one side behind iron palings and on the other the graveyard behind chalky walls held together with ivy . |
| 4 | It is certainly popular , but is only a ‘ must ’ for those happy with a bouncy bridge of wooden planks held together with rope suspended 80 feet above the sea . |
| 5 | The structure was held together with ropes binding the beams to the vertical posts . |
| 6 | For the first time the new cannon offered relative ease of production , and a greater degree of safety in use , unlike the former practice of building up the guns from iron bands held together with loops . |
| 7 | But whilst in New York McLaren also took note of new groups like Television and Richard Hell and the Voidoids , whose spiky crew cut and ripped and torn T-shirts and jeans , clumsily held together with safety-pins , struck McLaren as the epitome of Bohemian urban guerrilla chic . |
| 8 | His trousers are held together with safety pins , his suits do n't fit and he rolls his sleeves down in the summertime . |
| 9 | There were holes in the elbows and I must admit it had got so tatty that it was held together with nappy pins . |
| 10 | I used to work with an ex-BBC engineer who revelled in the fact that , in his day , Radio 3 , which was deemed by many hi-fi buffs as tonal nirvana , emanated from studios with ageing turntables and consoles , odd lengths of disparate signal cable were employed and much of it was held together with string and Sellotape . |
| 11 | All held together with string and faith , by the look of it . ’ |
| 12 | All-glass tanks are available in a wide range of shapes and sizes some so huge that it is easy to doubt that such a fragile framework , only held together with silicone sealant and weighing anything up to 1000 kilos ( 2000 lb ) or more when filled and stocked , is capable of withstanding all the pressure without collapsing . |
| 13 | It was almost certainly held together with dowels but has in any case been rebuilt twice , in 1867 and 1904 , with the use of ample numbers of bolts . |
| 14 | The armourers were the scruffiest erks to be seen anywhere — untidy , good-natured , mostly wearing leather jerkins over their battle dress ( held together with pieces of wire ) , and mostly in need of a shave as well . |
| 15 | We told Jean Paul that the cut-off jeans held together with masking tape and ground-in dirt were a bit trop , and he assured us that the too-small cycling caps would look genuinely ridiculous when they were made up . |
| 16 | They are themselves helical , with a pitch that decreases uniformally towards the outside , and they are torsion structures held together in part at least by forces generated by the attempts of individual bacteria to untwist . |
| 17 | In many Hemiptera the wings are held together in flight by various small hooks or folds along the wing.margins ( Weber , 1930 ) while in the Psocoptera the costa of the hind wing is held by a spiny or hooked process of the node where the second cubital vein of the fore wing reaches the margin . |
| 18 | They were literally held together in sickness and health . |
| 19 | The 17th century Lambeth plate , which was held together by glue and string , was bought by a London dealer at a Sheffield auction . |
| 20 | Every Street in the Gallowgate and the Calton had become a parking place for horses , hansom cabs , buses that could well have been the ‘ taxis of Waterloo' if Napoleon had been on our side , broughams with the seats held together by faith and carpet tacks , open coaches decorated with scraps of cloth and coloured paper , growling , fuming motor-cars … the invasion of the East End of Glasgow was total . |
| 21 | Rousseau 's conception of society , at least in Du Contrat Social , was the exact opposite of that of individualist writers like Hobbes and Bentham , for whom society was in essence a collection of discrete individuals , held together by laws and authority . |
| 22 | The stitched sections can be held together by strips of muslin or canvas called ‘ mull ’ or sometimes ‘ scrim ’ , with overlaps each side . |
| 23 | The bindings consist of various combinations ; there may be 3 or 4 horizontal bands and 2 or 4 vertical stays , normally held together by rivets . |
| 24 | They were unshaven or bearded , and dressed in leather and woollen breeches that were held together by scraps of hide with remnants of furs decorating their cloaks and the rims of their helms . |
| 25 | The empowered organisation , emphasises Kinsley Lord , is held together by forces different from those that bind the command organisation : ‘ If the conventional metaphor for the command organisation is a dinosaur , with the brain at the top issuing instructions to the ponderous body , then that for the empowered organisation might be a shoal of fish , moving rapidly and constantly adjusting its shape through signals that are instantly understood . ’ |
| 26 | His black trousers were held together by safety-pins , paperclips and needles . |
| 27 | The latest episode in this story is that we have found that the proton and electron are made up of quarks held together by bonds of the order of 10 9 eV . |
| 28 | The group is held together by Jennie ( played by Justine Bateman ) , whose brains and determination control their volatile friendships and music . |
| 29 | As long as it has a cover and is held together by staples , that 's alright with you . |
| 30 | With these ideas , in concrete mathematical form , it was relatively straightforward to calculate the allowed orbits in more complicated atoms and even in molecules , which are made up of a number of atoms held together by electrons in orbits that go round more than one nucleus . |