Example sentences of "hold by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Deutsche Bundespost Telekom has nodded through the taking of a 19.5% stake in Ukranian Telecommunications : other shareholders in the group include AT&T Co with 19.5% and Koninklijke PTT Telecom Nederland NV with 10% ; 51% is held by a Ukranian consortium ; Telekom will invest $15m in the venture . |
| 2 | Legislative power is held by a unicameral Legislative Assembly similarly elected for a four-year term . |
| 3 | Under the terms of the 1972 Constitution nominal political authority is held by a unicameral Supreme People 's Assembly ( SPA ) , the 615 members of which are elected every four years from a single list of candidates . |
| 4 | Under the terms of the 1972 Constitution nominal political authority is held by a unicameral Supreme People 's Assembly ( SPA ) , the 687 members of which are elected every four years from a single list of candidates . |
| 5 | De Klerk had earlier suggested that executive power be held by a supreme council appointed by an elected legislature [ see p. 38422 ] . |
| 6 | At Tibnin , the ruins are the highest point in the last village in southern Lebanon still held by a Muslim militia . |
| 7 | Like being hit with a monkey-wrench held by a psychopathic mechanic . |
| 8 | Her hair is tied back from her face and held by a long white lacy ribbon , but tumbles down loose behind . |
| 9 | Legislative power is held by a 72-member unicameral National Congress , similarly elected for a four-year term ( with 60 members elected on a provincial basis every two years and 12 members elected for a four-year term on a national basis ) . |
| 10 | In many Hemiptera the wings are held together in flight by various small hooks or folds along the wing.margins ( Weber , 1930 ) while in the Psocoptera the costa of the hind wing is held by a spiny or hooked process of the node where the second cubital vein of the fore wing reaches the margin . |
| 11 | She has also drawn a wonderfully rich picture of the belief systems and scientific world views held by a distinctive , yet hitherto little-known group of medical men . |
| 12 | Asked about the 19.5 per cent stake held by a rival brewer , he said he thought Boddington should sell it . |
| 13 | The Sari , however , is not primarily an initiation ceremony ; for it will be held by a great ruwang and his wife ( the ruwahu ) regardless of whether there are boys of appropriate age for initiation . |
| 14 | So land-holding companies were not in favour , while the idea that land should be held by a great individual landlord fitted the way people thought society ought to be run . |
| 15 | In this instance one hundred men , With two Scorpion armoured vehicles and two stripped-down Land-Rovers , will be landed on and seize an airfield held by a small enemy force . |
| 16 | Horses whickered restlessly , held by a small urchin who watched Isabel emerge from the alehouse with round , inquisitive eyes . |
| 17 | In males , the frenular bristles are fused into a single stout structure which is normally held by a curved process from the subcostal vein of the fore wing as well . |
| 18 | It 's held by a 1963 Volkswagen Beetle from Pasadena , California , which has covered an incredible 1,402,515 miles . |
| 19 | Look , too for the iron horse rings on the wall below the relief , each of the rings held by a Visconti snake . |
| 20 | It is therefore important for the deposit to be held by a professional conveyancer as a stakeholder at some stage in any given conveyancing chain . |
| 21 | The balance of power on Gloucester City Council is held by a former Tory councillor who now votes as an independent . |
| 22 | Legislative power is held by a bicameral National Congress comprising a 30-member Senate and a 72-member Chamber of Deputies , both directly elected for five-year terms ( subject to dissolution by the President ) . |
| 23 | Legislative authority is held by a bicameral Congress made up of a 180-member Chamber of Deputies and a 60-member Senate , both of which are elected for five-year terms , the Senate on a regional basis and the Chamber of Deputies by constituencies under a system of proportional representation . |
| 24 | But all I could do was wrestle with the lunging hind foot , dressing the infected cleft with a crude mixture of copper sulphate and Stockholm tar and finishing with a pad of cotton wool held by a tight bandage . |
| 25 | Legislative authority is held by a National Congress , comprising a 47-member Senate serving an eight-year term ( of whom 38 are elected and nine are directly appointed by the outgoing government and the Supreme Court — see pp. 37117 ; 37488 ) and a 120-member Chamber of Deputies elected for a four-year term . |
| 26 | There is some support for the proposition that such a loan , if made to a person fully capable of repaying the same and , for instance , charged against property in the United Kingdom , gives the taxpayer minimal benefit from the case of O " Leary v McKinlay [ 1991 ] STC 42 where Vinelott J at p51 , dealing with a Schedule E beneficial loan , stated the following : If an employer lends money to an employee free of interest or at a favourable rate of interest and if the employee is free to exploit the money in any manner he chooses his employment can not be said to have been the source of the income derived from the exploitation ; the employer is the source of the money and the taxpayer is assessable to tax under Sch E on the benefit to him of obtaining the loan on the terms on which the loan was made ; but if the loan is repayable on demand that benefit can not be quantified and form the basis of an assessment under Sch E. It is arguable if property is held by a non-resident trust for A for life and B absolutely that if the trustees lend money to A at interest then if A allows the trustees not to pursue him in his capacity as borrower for the interest that no benefit will arise . |
| 27 | Then our eyes will be firmly caught and firmly held by a bent female figure hurrying in through the door and across the room towards us . |
| 28 | The question for the court is whether the views could honestly have been held by a fair-minded person on facts known at the time . |
| 29 | Of all of the appointments which might easily be held by a resident freeholder , none was more attractive to many gentlemen than the post of collector of supply . |
| 30 | the number of paid public appointments that can be held by a single individual should be limited ; |