Example sentences of "[am/are] held [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | UNITA had demanded that elections be held within a year after the signing of a ceasefire , and rejected President José Eduardo dos Santos 's proposal for a 36-month delay . |
| 2 | Furthermore , your money is at risk , particularly when there is a thin market in shares , or where your shares are held under a nominee name for the convenience of your licensed dealer . |
| 3 | If the shares are held under a nominee name , the client will not get certificates at all . |
| 4 | The SDS needs only a networked 386SX with a 40Mb hard disk — most of the ODT files are held on a server . |
| 5 | Is the contract on " written standard terms " if the terms are held on a word processor and one term is altered for dealings with a particular customer ? ( b ) A business regularly contracts on terms prepared by its trade association : are those terms its " written standard terms " ? ( c ) A business makes individual contracts by telephone , or other instantaneous communication , but incorporates its normal terms of business into the contracts by express oral reference , or by a course of dealing ; are the terms then " written standard terms " ? ( d ) Are terms " standard " on the first occasion they are used ? ( e ) A business has negotiated a set of terms for use on all contracts with a particular customer . |
| 6 | Meetings are held on a Wednesday evening in Ewell . |
| 7 | 17 Throughout our work we were acutely aware of the differing opinions that are held on a number of issues that lie at the heart of the English curriculum and its teaching . |
| 8 | Apart from the physical aspects , if premises are held on a lease there are legal implications , too . |
| 9 | Another function of the Committee is its responsibility for the overall supervision of the so-called " collections " of pools of biotechnology materials , which are held at a number of research stations , and which make genetic material available to research workers in other institutions . |
| 10 | The shares are held for a year and then sold for $27 each . |
| 11 | All geometric and textural data are held within a part file that closely represents a dustbin , thus information can not be selectively retrieved ; a piece of an object can only be viewed by displaying the whole part file . |
| 12 | However , the response of governments is likely to be more and more dogmatic , and be driven by considerations of ‘ security ’ ; there will be little willingness by those in power to defer to differing views even when these are held by a majority . |
| 13 | Subsection ( 5 ) defines ‘ relevant shares ’ as : ‘ shares in the company other than — ( a ) shares which as respects dividends and capital carry a right to participate only up to a specified amount in a distribution , and ( b ) shares which are held by a person who acquired them in pursuance of an employees ’ share scheme or , in the case of shares which have not been allotted , are to be allotted in pursuance of such a scheme . ’ |
| 14 | And sub-section ( 4 ) defines ‘ relevant employee shares ’ as ‘ shares of the company which would be relevant in it but for the fact that they are held by a person who acquired them in pursuance of an employees ’ share scheme ’ |
| 15 | Snailsden Moor is currently denied to the public as the rights are held by a shooting syndicate . |
| 16 | If no shares are held by a director , this should be stated . |
| 17 | If no shares are held by a director , this should be stated . |
| 18 | Thus on the IBM 370 range , double.length fixed point binary operands ( such as for multiplication and division ) are held in a pair of consecutive accumulators , and the instruction species the lower numbered accumulator of the pair ; since the effective MQ register is an accumulator , we can use any of the computer 's instruction set to manipulate it . |
| 19 | Any unallocated payments are held in a suspense account , but once an appropriate charge is identified , the amount is treated as if allocated on the original date of the overpayment . |
| 20 | Er , delegates , I think sometimes conferences are held in a bit of a vacuum , you know , here you are in , in the hall , in the Guildhall er outside in the City of Portsmouth so can I say just a few words about Portsmouth . |
| 21 | Another major cause of the Darmstadt , Germany-based company 's success , Graham believes , is that it is now privately-owned again — or more precisely , its shares are held in a trust , set up by the founders . |
| 22 | Shareholder consents can be particularly difficult and time-consuming to obtain if some of the shares are held in a trust either for the families of other shareholders or for employees or as part of the company 's pension fund . |
| 23 | Diamond came out against such registration on the grounds , inter alia , that it could mislead in circumstances where shares subject to a fixed charge are held in a company which becomes a subsidiary after the charge has been created . |
| 24 | A survey of science libraries in Scotland , for example , revealed that apart from British Standards , which are held in a number of locations , holdings of other standards in Scotland are minimal . |
| 25 | With inverted files the records are held in a data area on disk , but there is also an index which contains values or a range of values for some of the data . |
| 26 | Their interests in the company are held in a family trust . |
| 27 | A potential drawback of consecutive spill is that , while this method of handling synonyms can be effective in some circumstances to retrieve records that are held in a file , it is not a good method of dealing with records that are not in the file . |
| 28 | The Job Control commands given below assume that ( i ) the instructions and data for the statistical data definition are held in a file called PMMLIB.GIMMSTATDAT and ( ii ) the GIMMS-generated data file will be written to another file called PMMLIB.GIMMSPOLYDAT which will be opened on unit 12 . |
| 29 | Love and honour , the pivotal themes of the Hornblower books , and essential to their success , are held in a balance which at times seems to hamper the essential directness of Forester 's narrative technique . |