Example sentences of "being hold [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most types of glider should be showing a very small amount of rudder being held on into the turn . |
| 2 | The Gatt trade discussions being held up over disputes about EC subsidies for oilseeds and the volume of exports could generate billions of dollars for world trade . |
| 3 | On the other hand , a stock of components can avoid the frustration of being held up on a project because a mundane integrated circuit is temporarily unavailable , or because you have managed to break one lead away from a 100m capacitor . |
| 4 | Missed departure cover is particularly important because there is more chance of being held up on the way to the airport in winter than in summer . |
| 5 | Too frequently I have made the mistake of buying fresh food once a week and either running out of organisational steam halfway through the week , so all the meals I had planned to cook have fallen by the wayside , or being held up at work or in some other way and grabbing fish and chips on the way home instead . |
| 6 | HEART-THROB singer Richard Marx was left shaking with fear after being held up at gunpoint by Chinese gangsters . |
| 7 | I start to apologize for being held up at work . |
| 8 | A car salesman is recovering after being held up at gunpoint by a man posing as a customer . |
| 9 | Torn between passion and prudence , he falls in love with a spiteful little blonde , and , even as he is being taught in class how to recognise a typical Jew by his grotesque hooked nose , he is personally being held up as an example of the ideologically acceptable East Baltic race . |
| 10 | There is a big case of investment being held up in Ahoghill , and it is also being held up in Carrickfergus , and other places , too . |
| 11 | There is a big case of investment being held up in Ahoghill , and it is also being held up in Carrickfergus , and other places , too . |
| 12 | Pre-tax profits this year will be lower than last year 's £42.3m and the shares , which slipped 1.5p to 127p , are only being held up by the Coats offer , worth 133p . |
| 13 | AGREEMENT on a long-awaited pan-European takeover and mergers code is being held up by West Germany , consumer affairs minister , John Redwood , claimed yesterday . |
| 14 | Discussions are being held up by Germany 's insistance on the involvement of a national body to help decide on any major takeover . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | At a meeting in Harare of African finance officials in July 1989 , it was argued that development is being held up by the tendency for government policy-makers to be involved in short-term crisis management for structural adjustment programmes , and responding to the demands of large numbers of foreign advisers . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If I was n't being held up by the man 's gripping hand hauling me through the ferns I feel like I 'd fall down . |
| 19 | Seated at his tiny desk beneath the window , Richard was intent on the word-pictures being held up by the kindly faced tutor . |
| 20 | Some of them being held up by friends . |
| 21 | Indeed , it is possible to speculate that the progress of GIS is not being held up by lack of technology or of suitable software but by the cost of acquiring the data necessary for the functioning of the GIS . |
| 22 | The removal of frontier controls is being held up by failure to harmonise VAT and excise duties . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Now the facilities management contract is being held up by Mr as an example for the property out-sourcing . |
| 25 | It was an estate , the hatch door being held down by gravity . |
| 26 | Is n't it just possible that students are missing out by being held back on full-time courses for so long ? |
| 27 | Bowdon Vale were unable to reach Barnton 's modest 155 at Broomsedge , being held back on 105 for eight by Barnton 's Geoff Langham with six for 43 . |
| 28 | WOMEN are being held back from top jobs in industry by an ‘ old boys ' network ’ , according to a report published today . |
| 29 | WOMEN in the corporate world are being held back by unsuitable methods of management training , according to research by Lancaster University Management School . |
| 30 | Many women in business are being held back by difficulties encountered during the menopause , and , according to a survey from medical insurance group PPP , over 90% of companies have no formal policy on the subject . |