Example sentences of "hold [adv prt] by [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are held on by recessed bolts and wing-nuts , and are easily removed . |
| 2 | An extended dining-table was littered with papers held down by little pottery artefacts from ashtrays to small pitchers and there was a portable typewriter at one end . |
| 3 | The lavvu goes up , the canvas at the bottom held down by shovelled snow . |
| 4 | Conservation chiefs are insisting the 150ft high metal monstrosity must be preserved as a ‘ national monument ’ because it is held up by fancy Doric columns . |
| 5 | Transports , were , the Admiralty declared , frequently held up by drunken and indisciplined seamen , to the detriment of the war effort , and seriously proposed that all men in the mercantile marine should he conscripted into the Royal Naval Reserve under naval discipline . |
| 6 | Their supply ships were held up by contrary winds , and Edward was faced with no alternative but an inglorious retreat to England . |
| 7 | While it is true that no major course development has been held up by administrative constraints , the range of decisions with administrative effects ( deadlines , counting rules , etc. , as well as the information base about approved fields ) imposes a permanent culture of change on the administration of the Course . |
| 8 | The government decided in 1973 to promote nuclear power , but the idea has been held up by unresolved questions concerning the environment . |
| 9 | Work on the dam began in 1983 but was held up by economic and environmental objections . |
| 10 | The initialling of the agreement , reached in principle in October 1991 [ see pp. 38541-42 ] , had been held up by legal objections raised in December [ see p. 38691 ] by the EC 's European Court of Justice ( ECJ ) . |
| 11 | A service accord had been held up by developing countries , who feared that liberalization would allow Western financial companies to cripple newly established indigenous financial service industries . |
| 12 | Our passes were only valid for Arussi ; consequently , when we reached Haro , a small administrative post further down the banks of the Webi , we were held up by Abyssinian officials and a mob of their compatriots . |
| 13 | Many creatures , even large herbaceous plants and octopuses ( above ) , are held up by hydrostatic pressure . |
| 14 | As an invective against chaos it is convincing — and was even held up by past critics as an illustration of Shakespeare 's own belief in hierarchical society . |
| 15 | Half an hour later , dressed in a yellow sundress sprinkled with white daisies , held up by narrow straps with a wide sash for a belt , she looked as cool as she felt . |
| 16 | The crowd , held back by serried ranks of soldiers , was already growing restless and shouts of ‘ Get on with it ! ’ , |
| 17 | In the English Midlands and south east , winter wheat and oilseed crops were held back by poor autumn seedbeds and waterlogging . |
| 18 | The same determination , which was often frighteningly apparent in his 250 days , came bursting through again and yet Ruggia was usually held back by poorly set-up machinery . |
| 19 | WOMEN in the corporate world are being held back by unsuitable methods of management training , according to research by Lancaster University Management School . |
| 20 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what is the average amount of money being held back by local education authorities in England and Wales , per pupil , under the system of local management of schools . |
| 21 | The time was in fact ripe , not only for a secession from religion ( which , after all , had never given parents anything very tangible ) , but for a transfer of allegiance from the other traditional reference groups of parents : away from the methods prescribed by folklore , custom and the baby 's grandmother , and towards the new blessings held out by scientific mothercraft . |