Example sentences of "hold [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Karak Ungor is the first Dwarf hold to fall to the Goblins , it becomes the Night Goblin stronghold of Red Eye Mountain . |
| 2 | £65/$90 The volume covering the American drawings from the 2,000-strong Lehman holding housed in the Met. |
| 3 | The different types of tenure marked out the leading characteristics of the different forms of land holding known to the law ; but they told us nothing of the nature and incidents of the various interests which those who held by these tenures might have in the land . |
| 4 | The former would be the province of the Atlantic military alliance that Britain hoped the United States would create , while the latter were held to fall under the purview of the body established to administer the Marshall Plan . |
| 5 | This sabotage was held to fall within the conduct prohibited by section 1 . |
| 6 | ALTHOUGH this match was largely devoid of running rugby , it was a classic of its type , the spectators held captivated by the tense battle . |
| 7 | A tow chain has been held not to be a ‘ part ’ ( Jenkins v Deane ( 1933 ) , 103 LJKB 250 ) but a tow bar connecting a vehicle and a trailer together has been held to come within the regulation where the joining was defective ( O'Neill v Brown 119611 1 QB 420 ) , |
| 8 | There does not seem to me to be anything in the policy of the new Act which suggests that in this provision Parliament was intending to give those words a different meaning from those which they had been held to bear under the Act of 1914 . |
| 9 | Similarly , part of a room that projected above ground level into the property conveyed has been held to pass in the conveyance ( Laybourn v Gridley [ 1892 ] 2 Ch 53 ) . |
| 10 | In this case the bill of lading ( i.e. the document given by the shipowner acknowledging that he has received the goods ) will usually indicate that the goods are held according to the seller 's instructions . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , it was impossible to ignore the fact that the overall percentage of registered electors voting in favour , at 64.51 per cent in Latvia and 64.49 per cent in Estonia , fell short of the two-thirds majority which would have meant victory if the referendums had been held according to the April 1990 USSR legislation on the secession of a republic [ see pp. 37361-62 ] . |
| 12 | Auctions were held to sell off the town lots , those nearest the station being the most expensive . |
| 13 | So , for example , in disciplinary hearings , natural justice has been held to apply on the ground that , as allegations have been made against a person , justice demands a right to answer these allegations . |
| 14 | In the new classical theory , Friedman 's conviction that money is neutral in the medium term is held to apply to the short run also . |
| 15 | Whether the same principle should be held to apply in the case of public authorities other than the Crown charged with the enforcement of the law falls to be decided in the present case . |
| 16 | 12–3–1892 The classes were not held owing to the amount of sickness in the district . |
| 17 | It is an even wilder dream to imagine that it would get such a majority that it could escape from being held to ransom by the 25 Members who signed the amendment . |
| 18 | NEWCASTLE will not be held to ransom in the chase for QPR 's Pounds 5 million man Les Ferdinand . |
| 19 | This morning a special meeting was held to look to the future . |
| 20 | The power of the elite is held to derive from the greater intensity and quality of the sentiments or residues of its members which give its members the will and the ability to maintain their own rule either by force or by consent ( but not usually both , according to Pareto ) . |
| 21 | The logic of this has been held to extend to the situation where the person interposes by advising his friend of his legal rights ; the courts have held that this too amounts to obstruction . |
| 22 | ‘ that a person who has entered into the contract may either affirm or avoid such contract after the duress has ceased ; and if he has so voluntarily acted under it with a full knowledge of all the circumstances he may be held bound on the ground of ratification , or if , after escaping from the duress , he takes no steps to set aside the transaction he may be found to have affirmed it . ’ |
| 23 | No figure can be put on the number of years for which such a procession must have been held to qualify for the exemption ; any figure that is imposed is likely to be arbitrary . |
| 24 | A second referendum would then be held to coincide with the next general election , due by November 1993 , when voters would be asked to make a straight choice between the MMP proposal and the existing system . |
| 25 | An unprecedented meeting on May 18 between representatives of black and white mineworkers ' unions , along with Law and Order Minister Vlok , raised hopes that the tension was being defused , but on May 20 police shot dead three blacks at the end of a meeting held to call off the boycott . |
| 26 | Thus either the comparative inefficiency of one hemisphere in dealing with the information presented and/or a reduction in stimulus fidelity consequent upon hemispheric transfer are held to account for the advantage obtained for a particular half of the visual field . |
| 27 | Again continental drift may be held to account for the remarkable similarity of the Upper Carboniferous ( Pennsylvanian ) Coal Measures on both sides of what one of the airlines now likes to call the " Atlantic River " . |
| 28 | TV became both an arena in which political discussion is carried on , like the House of Commons or a party meeting , and simultaneously a medium in which politicians could be held to account before the people . |
| 29 | In the evening a fun event will be held to get into the swing of things . |
| 30 | As latent inhibition is held to depend on the integrity of the context — stimulus association , both these procedures should alleviate the retarding effect of pre-exposure to the stimulus . |