Example sentences of "hold at [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Grinders should be held at a shallow angle of between 15 and 30° to the work when they are used to abrade the surface .
2 The belief expressed was that wage rates were held at a depressed level in the provinces of England compared to London .
3 The 1992 series will be held at a new venue , Abbey Community Association , 34 Great Smith Street , London SW1 3BU .
4 Costs as a matter of policy are held at a reasonable level .
5 Her arms were raised , her head was held at a strange angle , her body was rigid but trembling .
6 held at a pleasant temperature by the warm fluid circulating above and below , and enjoyably light as well , thanks to the fish .
7 A striped shirt without a collar , and trousers that were held at a slender stomach by braces , and carpet slippers in checked shades of brown , and a smell of pipe tobacco .
8 This shows that when a Maxwell element is held at a fixed shear strain , the shearing stress will relax exponentially with time .
9 The mass will be held at a religious shrine on a road where , three years ago , hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered in the uprising which toppled the former president , Ferdinand Marcos , and installed Mrs Aquino in power .
10 Again in the case of Trieste , Dell'Aqua describes how patients , painters , doctors , nurses and students built a blue horse — the Marco Cavallo — which led a joyful procession of about 6,000 patients through the town , and on to a celebration of the emptying of the first ward , held at a local primary school .
11 ‘ Working weekends ’ held at a local school , begin on a Saturday afternoon and last through all day Sunday .
12 AROUND sixty employees from the NW Region had the chance to get to know each other recently when they were invited to Penrith 's annual Christmas party held at a local hotel .
13 Three Americans were held at a luxury flat in West London where cocaine worth £7 million was found .
14 And every now and again a Crossley tender carrying a company of Black and Tans , their guns held at a threatening angle , would butt its way through the press , its progress-retarded — sometimes even brought to a halt — by as unlikely a variety of breakdowns and traffic jams as the doggedly obstructive citizens of Cork could improvise this side of outright rebellion .
15 The trial will be held at a later date .
16 For instance , demand management might require that government spending should be held at a high level to keep the economy at full pressure , while Labour 's plans also called for a high level of State spending .
17 Each non-inverting input voltage is held at a different level , the connection nearest pin 4 being the lowest voltage , and the connection nearest pin 6 being the highest .
18 The final image is formed on a large frosted glass plate held at a convenient viewing angle .
19 They were both being held at a military prison in the town of Blida , 50 km south of Algiers .
20 The couple — who now run a pet shop in Hull — married while held at a nuclear plant in Basra , Iraq .
21 In practice the polymer solution is held at a constant temperature while precipitant is added to the stirred solution .
22 A water temperature held at a steady 70° F.
23 MCC bosses had hoped to deflect the rebels from insisting on the meeting , which will cost £17,000 and may well have to be held at a huge venue like Westminster Hall , by offering to pass on their views on the Gower affair to the selectors and the TCCB in an unprecedented letter of protest .
24 The event was held at the new National Indoor Arena in central Birmingham — a magnificent auditorium that 's set to become one of Britain 's premier indoor venues .
25 Pictured at a presentation to Margaret Browne , who resigned recently from AIB Bank , held at the Irish Bankers ' Club on Tuesday , 16th March 1993 , l. to r. : — Ciaran Ryan , General Secretary , Margaret Browne , Dan Linehan and Andy Heffernan , President
26 Chisels and plane blades can be sharpened and honed , held at the correct angles by ingenious jigs .
27 Seat belt ‘ lock off ’ guide ensures the seat belt is held at the correct position .
28 A low vision aid must be held at the correct distance from the material to be viewed for maximum magnification to be effected , and it can be difficult to sustain this with a hand-held magnifier for any length of time .
29 It also has a magnificent wine cellar , with around 3000 bottles , stored in cupboards which have the temperature controlled by computer to ensure that every variety is held at the correct level .
30 We will be carrying a report in our next issue of the magazine on our AGM ( 24 October ) and on our forthcoming exhibition to be held at the 181 Gallery in Hammersmith , west London this December/January .
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