Example sentences of "hold [prep] the time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , some verbs seem to have no lexical content beyond one which is aimed at providing some kind of reservation about applicability of the adjectival property , examples being become and turn which place a temporal restriction on the adjective 's applicability ; the subordinate property only holds after the time indicated by the tense of the verb . |
| 2 | The insider must also know that the information he holds at the time of the trades in question is unpublished price sensitive information . |
| 3 | Johnson rejected the proposal for the elections , which in any case were clearly impossible to hold within the time proposed . |
| 4 | There was always a modest manor at Sutton , held at the time of the Domesday survey by Henry de Ferrers , then by the Boschervilles , who gave it to the Priory of Trentham . |
| 5 | This is a collection of strange bedfellows , but is an interesting reflection of the high esteem in which artists were held at the time . |
| 6 | Nearly 500 people arrested after the rebel attacks were still being held at the time of the AI visit . |
| 7 | This alarming statistic led Qamar Ali Mirza , president of the Pakistan Mountaineering Association , to make a moving plea at a conference of Greater Ranges nations being held at the time in Kathmandu : ‘ Please give a respite to these big mountains . |
| 8 | ’ An absentee also included anyone who was a Palestinian citizen and left his ordinary place of residence in Palestine for a place outside Palestine before 1 September 1948 , or for a place in Palestine held at the time by forces which sought to prevent the establishment of the State of Israel or which fought against it after its establishment . ’ |
| 9 | It was an office which Pierre Leclair held at the time . |
| 10 | Before it , the talk in the High Court corridors was that Meehan would be acquitted for lack of evidence , but it was a view that few held by the time it was finished . |