Example sentences of "is hold by the " in BNC.

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1 So if there is no son , as during George VI 's reign , it is held by the monarch .
2 Apart from these cases , the entire property , other than that in which the deceased 's interest ceased at his death , is held by the executors or administrators on trust for sale , in the first instance for the payment of his debts , and then for distribution as laid down in the Intestates ’ Estates Act 1952 , which has replaced the relevant provisions of the Act of 1925 .
3 Mr Ashdown must now pin his hopes on efforts to target vulnerable Tory seats , such as Bath , which is held by the Tory chairman , Mr Patten .
4 Any money paid by you to your travel agent in respect of the holiday is held by the travel agent on your behalf until the Booking Allocation is despatched .
5 As with so many armorial terms the word ‘ quarterings ’ is not used in a conventional way and applied to a shield divided merely into four ; indeed there can be as many ‘ quarterings ’ as there are family affiliations — perhaps the record is held by the five-surnamed Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville family , whose full achievement of arms boasts 719 quarterings .
6 The list is typed ; a master copy is held by the store and another is sent on to you .
7 In the current controversy over Croagh Patrick , the deciding interest is held by the Finnish mining multinational Ooutukumpu , a company which also controls the Navan operation of Tara Mines .
8 when for any other reason whatever a Consignment can not be delivered or when a Consignment is held by the Carrier ‘ to await order ’ or ‘ to be kept till called for ’ or upon any like instructions and such instructions are not given or the Consignment is not called for and removed , within a reasonable time , then transit shall be deemed to end .
9 First , they enable you to ‘ gather ’ the knitting in , second , the ribber comb is held by the gathered thread row — this row is eventually pulled through and does n't form a permanent part of the welt. the second row to be knitting is , when the hem is finished , the first row of the welt .
10 A list of companies who carry out these disparity valuations is held by the personnel manager .
11 A Microsoft Corp staffer is reported to have told Sun Microsystems Inc that Microsoft would make Windows such a moving target that Sun , with its WABI Windows Application Binary Interface , could not keep up ( CI No 2,147 ) : if the tale is true and Microsoft means it , it means that the company has learned a little too well from its long cohabitation with IBM , and that the seeds of its own destruction are now being sown — for years , IBM added features and tweaked its mainframes with no thought of improving them from the user 's point of view , but simply to trip up competitors , and once a dominant company starts resorting to such tactics , it fatally injures the regard with which it is held by the outside world , and is embarking on the slippery slope that leads to the debacle IBM finds itself in today .
12 Almost all the rest , 95% of the total , is held by the American and Russian armed forces .
13 The title to gold and silver in the former county of Sutherland in northern Scotland is held by the Duchy of of Sutherland .
14 A substantial volume of information about cross-references is held by the system .
15 The archive is held by the County Archive Office at Beverly and contains a wealth of information on the house 's contents including designs , drawings and receipts .
16 It probably does not matter what title is held by the people who will be dealing with press enquiries , but what does matter is that they should be reasonably au fait with the company and its products .
17 If you pay through a travel agent , they 'll hold money on your behalf until a contract is created ( see above ) , after that the money is held by the travel agent on our behalf .
18 In Stein 's German action , the beak is held by the escapement lever while the pivot moves up with the key ( compare illus.12,13 ) .
19 It must also be remembered that they have certain rights while in the Department 's care not only in physical terms but also in relation to information which is held by the Department about them as individuals .
20 Suppose now that it lends 90 per cent of that deposit in sterling to a UK resident who spends it in such a way that it is redeposited with the UK bank ; also that the remaining 10 per cent is held by the overseas bank as an interest-bearing sterling deposit with the UK bank .
21 One copy of each policy is held by the Personal Manager of your Branch should you need to consult an actual policy rather than the wordings held in the Trove version .
22 According to the 1959 Constitution executive power is held by the President , elected every five years , who appoints the Prime Minister and the Council of Ministers .
23 Under the Constitution of December 1983 executive power is held by the President , who is directly elected for a five-year term , while legislative power is vested in the unicameral Legislative Assembly ( which replaced the National Constituent Assembly in March 1985 ) with 60 members similarly elected for a three-year term .
24 Executive power is held by the President , also directly elected for a five-year term , assisted by two elected Vice-Presidents and an appointed Cabinet .
25 Executive power is held by the President ( also directly elected for five years ) , assisted by a Vice-President and an appointed Cabinet .
26 Legislative authority is held by the bicameral Congress , comprising a 27-member Senate and a 130-member Chamber of Deputies , both elected for a four-year term by universal adult suffrage .
27 Under the 1980 Constitution legislative power is held by the unicameral National Assembly , comprising 65 members ( 53 elected for five years by universal adult suffrage , on the basis of proportional representation , and 12 regional representatives ) while executive power is held by the President .
28 Under the 1980 Constitution legislative power is held by the unicameral National Assembly , comprising 65 members ( 53 elected for five years by universal adult suffrage , on the basis of proportional representation , and 12 regional representatives ) while executive power is held by the President .
29 Nominal political authority is held by the unicameral People 's Assembly whose 250 members are elected every four years from a single list of candidates , and which in turn elects the Presidium and the Council of Ministers .
30 Under the 1976 Constitution legislative authority is held by the unicameral National Assembly of People 's Power , whose 510 members are indirectly elected every five years , most recently in 1986 , by popularly elected local assemblies .
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