Example sentences of "the [noun sg] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Nigeria the foreign investors ' share is now about 20 per cent , with the bulk of the remainder held in the Nigerian private sector ; the localization legislation created over one million individual shareholders . |
| 2 | Saga has about 1,500 shareholders , with institutions accounts for around half the shares not held by the family and the remainder held by private investors . |
| 3 | The additional times caused by linkage handling can be avoided if the link held on the prime data track contains the record key , and if the software can detect whether the required record is in overflow quickly enough to avoid missing the start of the next record . |
| 4 | Well Chemistry of course is , is traditionally much easier in many ways than English or some other subjects , and this reflects the esteem held amongst schoolteachers and students of the sciences as opposed to the arts . |
| 5 | ( 6 ) A licensing board may only deal with any proceedings relating to matters mentioned in paragraphs ( a ) to ( i ) of subsection ( 2 above at a quarterly meeting of the board held by virtue of section 4.1 a of this Act . |
| 6 | What pleasures , he wondered , did the afternoon hold in store ? |
| 7 | I always wondered where the money for dean came from , we should have held onto chapman , strenghten our back four , and would have had the money to hold onto Batty . |
| 8 | This principle has been applied , and the money held to be recoverable , in cases where the sanction has amounted to duress of the person of the subject or of his goods . |
| 9 | The profit and loss account shows the increase or decrease in the money held over the year . |
| 10 | But suddenly the local VATman said that as the money held by Barfield exceeds the VAT threshold , it must pay 17.5% VAT on it — even though each business involved would be under the VAT threshold . |
| 11 | VIEWINDEX searches through the text held in VIEW files and collects words or phrases , which are selected by the user , to be included in the index . |
| 12 | Vladimir Isakov and Sergei Baburin , two prominent leaders of Russian Unity , were humiliated in the referendum held on April 25th . |
| 13 | Following the rejection of the proposals put forward by the ruling Popular Democratic Party ( PPD ) in the referendum held on Dec. 8 , 1991 [ see p. 38670 ] , the Governor , Rafael Hernández Colón , announced his intention not to seek re-election in the gubernatorial elections due to be held in November 1992 ; it was expected that Victoria Múñoz Mendoza would be endorsed as the PPD 's candidate for the governorship . |
| 14 | I 'm working class , I 'm a woman , I 'm a lesbian , ’ shrieks the tannoy held in the hands of the woman we are fairly sure is June from Bristol . |
| 15 | Note the recessed sheet tail bags and the foot holds in the cockpit seats |
| 16 | This is because part-time members of the force have only slight contact with regular policemen and women , and experience greater status incongruity as a result of the contrast between the responsibility held in their day-time employment and the more restricted range of their police duties . |
| 17 | THE BARCELONA BALL was the highspot of the social agenda for the 324 guests who attended the function held at the Old Swan Hotel Harrogate , and organised by the National Westminster Bank Leeds and Harrogate areas . |
| 18 | I therefore became very clearly aware of the potential that the university held for the whole of the East Sussex area . |
| 19 | Yawning widely , the bucket held in her arms , she climbed back upstairs . |
| 20 | ‘ The construct of authority ‘ held in the mind ’ is that it could be good but is in actuality bad , and the hope held by workers is that it [ authority ] may be all that is positive for their children . |
| 21 | Apparently a lorry carrying a rubbish skip was hi-jacked in nearby Pomeroy several hours ago and the driver held at gunpoint . |
| 22 | This could be both through research work and through the organisation of more lengthy round-table discussions , of the kind held at Uig last October , between representatives of the various organisations engaged in the development of the area and some experts from outside . |
| 23 | The boy looked right at him and stopped , the stick held above his head , threatening . |
| 24 | On the other hand , from the point of view of sociological knowledge , even the most certain adequacy on the level of meaning signifies an acceptable causal proposition only to the extent that evidence can be produced that there is a probability … that the action in question really takes the course held to be meaningfully adequate . |
| 25 | Whether ‘ the action in question really takes the course held to be meaningfully adequate ’ depends on assigning a high probability , which in turn depends on appealing to a well-established generalization . |
| 26 | The necessity of job retention in healthy profitable industries such as banking and criticism of the failure to deliver on promises made a year ago of ‘ several hundred new jobs ’ were strong themes at the second Biennial Delegate Conference of the Association held in the Burlington Hotel on Saturday , 24th April 1993 . |
| 27 | The idea was they were after the records which the college held on all students . |
| 28 | All the winning breweries were represented at the ceremony held in Doggets Coat and Badge , Blackfriars . |
| 29 | Guests at the ceremony held in a beautiful beachside house included director Micahel Winner and millionaire Robert Sangster . |
| 30 | Despite the fact that it was in the open air , the roof held in some of the smoke , which Charity now felt was reaching killing proportions . |