Example sentences of "[is] held [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , April , April the tenth to the twelfth , is the , is the National Amnesty A G M which is held over a weekend and this year is in Exeter . |
| 2 | Because of problems with disparate styles of music , however , an occasional Sunday afternoon service is held at a time when white people who are committed to this kind of outreach are free to attend . |
| 3 | The wedding is held at a worship meeting in which the couple make a declaration of marriage . |
| 4 | The reason is that they deny the significance of speculative balances and argue that overwhelmingly money is held as a medium of exchange . |
| 5 | Here the fraction is held as a series of decimal digits , with a floating . |
| 6 | This spatial data is held as a node , enveloping box and attribute ( functional relativity ) as illustrated in Figure 5.7 . |
| 7 | Holland 's liberal attitude is held as a model by many pro-euthanasia campaigners . |
| 8 | The rock-climber is held on a rope by clipping himself on to a harness thingy ( if you 've come to this book for technical information , boy are you going to be disappointed ) that straps round his thighs and crotch , so as a quick guide to who the climbers are in the pub , just watch for those who seem to be constantly fiddling around in their genital area . |
| 9 | The information on the form will be transferred onto the Community Charge Register , which is held on a computer . |
| 10 | The race is held on a Sunday , but people travel to the village on the Saturday or even the Friday . |
| 11 | The weekly meeting is held in a spirit of fraternity , simplicity and Christian joy . |
| 12 | A hacksaw may be the only possible tool to cut existing pipe which is installed against a wall ; however , the disadvantages of a hacksaw are that it produces fine copper filings ( and care must be taken not to get these into the pipes ) and that it will tend to flatten the pipe slightly — particularly if this is held in a vice . |
| 13 | A blade-changing wrench is held in a clip at the rear of the sole plate . |
| 14 | A multiple.length value is held in a number of consecutive store locations ; the left-most bit of all words but the first ( which holds the sign bit ) may either be used arithmetically or may be ignored . |
| 15 | We can imagine the formation of such a chemical bond as requiring that a spring be compressed to bring the substances close to one another , at which point they are held together by a catch , as the jack is held in a jack-in-the-box . |
| 16 | Companies Act 1985 , section 722(2) : Where information is held in a form other than in a ‘ bound book ’ , then ‘ adequate precautions shall be taken for guarding against falsification and facilitating its discovery ’ . |
| 17 | The underthread for the lockstitch is provided by the bobbin , and the needle thread has to perform a loop to go around the bobbin which is held in a bobbin case under a slide plate . |
| 18 | In mechanics , energy is considered in two general forms : potential energy that is held within a body by virtue of its location , temperature , even chemical state , and Kinetic energy by virtue of its velocity or rate of change . |
| 19 | Executive power is held by a Council of Ministers elected by the Assembly and responsible to it . |
| 20 | Executive and administrative authority is held by a Council of Ministers appointed by the National Assembly upon the recommendation of the President . |
| 21 | Executive and administrative authority is held by a Council of Ministers appointed by the National Assembly upon the recommendation of the President . |
| 22 | Executive power is held by a Council of Ministers elected by the Assembly and responsible to it . |
| 23 | Para 41 states : ‘ Where the investment in an associated company is held by a subsidiary in which there are minority interests , the minority interests shown in the consolidated financial statements of the group should include the minority share of the subsidiary 's interest in the results and net assets of the associated company . ’ |
| 24 | The balance of the shares in RJ Levack is held by a director , John Myles . |
| 25 | Executive power is held by a President who is elected for a six-year term and who appoints a Cabinet including the Governor of the Federal District . |
| 26 | Executive power is held by a President , who is popularly elected for a five-year term , and who governs with the assistance of an appointed State Council led by a Prime Minister . |