Example sentences of "hold [adv prt] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was holding on by a thread . |
| 2 | The 4–5 favourite held on by a fast diminishing half-length from Swift Buck who was attempting to give his jockey , John McIrvine , a record third successive win in the race . |
| 3 | There was more drama to follow in the actual race , where Shemaka held on by a nose from Baya . |
| 4 | A wreath of artificial poppies has been held down by a brick . |
| 5 | Greeks found these attitudes hard to understand ; accustomed to connect one-man rule with harsh policing , they imagined that the Persian Empire must have been held down by a system of institutionalized controls — garrisons and garrison-commanders — and touring royal armies and officials , King 's Eyes and King 's Ears , and so on ( Xen . |
| 6 | There was a garden hazed over by sunlight and held in by a dome . |
| 7 | The artficial beach would great an additional barrier ; 300m wide and constructed from four million cubic metres of sand , held in by a sill made of rock , it would also create a new beach for tourists . |
| 8 | Ultimately we reach the ridge , where we favour an intricate design of vees and scallops called a ‘ block-cut patterned ridge ’ , held down by a heavy lattice pattern of hazel spars . |
| 9 | The restrictors fitted to the Stage One V8 are easily removed by removing the carbs and pulling the restrictor from the manifold They are in fact aluminium discs with three holes about ⅜″. diameter in each one and are held in by an expanding steel clip Select a suitable diameter tap and tap a thread with a smear of grease on the top to collect swarf , fit a long bolt and lever out with a pry bar Extremely obstinate ones may be split into three large bits with a small chisel and pulled out Clean the debris out with a vacuum cleaner A piece of l/2″ hose taped onto the suction pipe will reach most places in the manifold . |
| 10 | The trailer brakes could be held off by a separate braking system when coupled to the tractor . |
| 11 | Kingfisher risks having its bid held up by a Monopolies Commission investigation because of the grip it would have on the electrical retailing market if it controlled Dixons and Currys as well as Comet . |
| 12 | But a decision whether nitrate contamination of water is to be reduced by curbs on land use or by treatment with untried technology is being held up by a conflict in Whitehall on whether farmers should be compensated for income losses resulting from land use controls ’ . |
| 13 | The price of oil was tumbling again , one of his most reliable brokers on Wall Street had just been arrested for insider dealing , the acquisition of a highly prestigious London hotel had been held up by a query as to who actually owned it and , back home , one of his sisters had just committed suicide , causing a tremor of scandal throughout the country . |
| 14 | The pale yellow flowers of the traveller 's joy entwined in the hedgerows brought no happiness to David Waterlane stuck behind a convoy of cars on the Midhurst Road which was held up by a huge lorry with a sign saying ‘ Horses ’ on the back . |
| 15 | The aft-hinged canopies are held up by a pair of stays with knurled locking sleeves . |
| 16 | After much hard work — Hunt castigates himself for driving the first third of the race like a ‘ grandmother ’ — Hunt eventually got by Jody when Scheckter was held up by a back-marker . |
| 17 | Normally a modest stream , it occasionally becomes a torrent after a downpour and , when held up by a high tide-can give rise to flooding in the lower part of the town as , spectacularly , in 1914 and 1935 . |
| 18 | The Prince Albert was not the only ship to be held up by a dockers ' strike : at the East India Docks , the Jolly George with a similar load of armaments for Poland , was prevented from sailing . |
| 19 | I joined it at Sanguinaro , where I was held up by a Feldgendarm on a motorcycle . |
| 20 | It is possible for a series of nick points to migrate up a stream and for the whole series to coalesce when they are held up by a resistant bed . |
| 21 | In the north-east of England , a joint proposal by International Technology Europe and Northumbrian Water for two plants designed to burn sewage sludge and organic chemicals is currently being held up by a lengthy public enquiry , with local people in strong opposition . |
| 22 | He explained the set-up ; Duncan and I were to pull an Aspel-laden rickshaw through the busy streets of Charing Cross — ignoring the irate rush-hour traffic , which was being held up by an army of floor assistants — to the steps of Charing Cross underground station . |
| 23 | Cross-channel ferries held up by a bomb scare … . |
| 24 | His trousers , made of what looked like sacking , were chopped off at the knee , held up by a strap wound round his middle . |
| 25 | They had erected a little shelter , an old curtain spread across one corner of the balcony and held up by a clothes horse and a chair . |
| 26 | Mr French also cited Gloucester 's new courthouse , held up by a planning row between the city and county councils . |
| 27 | and then , not if you ca n't get , held up by a piece of string would it ? |
| 28 | Certainly , the notion that limited liability is of itself a denial of the very skills and integrity being held out by a professional to the rest of the world may be outdated in the light of the size and type of projects now being undertaken as part of surveying practice . |
| 29 | Things that had been yoked , harnessed , held down and held back by a power that was dissolving . |
| 30 | ‘ No regular soldier I ever knew wore cross bandoleers , or had long hair held back by a headband . |