Example sentences of "the [noun] held [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Nigeria the foreign investors ' share is now about 20 per cent , with the bulk of the remainder held in the Nigerian private sector ; the localization legislation created over one million individual shareholders . |
| 2 | Before exploring some of the attitudes held towards the issue of assessment by the arts teachers interviewed , it might help to look at the philosophies being advanced by them towards the teaching of their respective specialisms . |
| 3 | The attitudes held by the modern racists are deracialized in that the attitudes are justified by traditional values , such as equality and fairness , and not by oven racial themes . |
| 4 | The additional times caused by linkage handling can be avoided if the link held on the prime data track contains the record key , and if the software can detect whether the required record is in overflow quickly enough to avoid missing the start of the next record . |
| 5 | The profit and loss account shows the increase or decrease in the money held over the year . |
| 6 | So , too , did the British right wing , where two divisions of 13th Corps captured Montauban and Mametz , thereby isolating Fricourt — which nevertheless the Germans held until the following day . |
| 7 | The maps held in the archives of the Sechem — the keepers of Yek knowledge and the interpreters of their law — showed two land masses of continental size on the far side of the Great Sea . |
| 8 | There is no record of where the papingo was placed for the contests held during the first century of the Kilwinning Society of Archers . |
| 9 | I 'm working class , I 'm a woman , I 'm a lesbian , ’ shrieks the tannoy held in the hands of the woman we are fairly sure is June from Bristol . |
| 10 | These are calculated on the value of the investments held in the trust ( measured on their own offer and bid prices ) , the brokerage costs and stamp duty . |
| 11 | THE BARCELONA BALL was the highspot of the social agenda for the 324 guests who attended the function held at the Old Swan Hotel Harrogate , and organised by the National Westminster Bank Leeds and Harrogate areas . |
| 12 | I therefore became very clearly aware of the potential that the university held for the whole of the East Sussex area . |
| 13 | Among these will be the definitions held by the people involved as to what the primary task of the enterprise is , how its relationships to its environment are conceived by the people in their roles , what uses they make of technologies ‘ and the needs of the members for social and psychological satisfaction , and , above all , for support in the task of dealing with anxiety ’ ( Menzies , 1970 ) . |
| 14 | The necessity of job retention in healthy profitable industries such as banking and criticism of the failure to deliver on promises made a year ago of ‘ several hundred new jobs ’ were strong themes at the second Biennial Delegate Conference of the Association held in the Burlington Hotel on Saturday , 24th April 1993 . |
| 15 | There is , therefore , a coincidence between lived reality and the construct held in the mind ; unlike the Military Model which constructs reality in terms of the metaphor . |
| 16 | S/L Paul Millikin was pressed for what the future held for the aircraft , to one question he replied ‘ I do n't know if there is talk from Whitehall … nobody tells me anything ! ’ |
| 17 | Listing the offices held by the pair was not done for information purposes — every five-year-old knew who they were — but to assert their authority . |
| 18 | All of the foregoing are in accordance with the lists held by the parties . |
| 19 | Andersen will issue and sell new shares , while Graseby will also sell some of the equity held in the Specac firms . |
| 20 | The total outflow of some $60 billion was financed by increases in the reserves held by the central banks of the industrial countries . |
| 21 | ( So firm is the grip held by the revived quantity theory of money nowadays that few of the monetarists or new classical macroeconomists who followed in Friedman 's footsteps bothered to elucidate the mechanism by which changes in M s ( or in ) affect W and P. They just do . ) |
| 22 | At Gloucester in July 1634 the judges ' proceedings were based partly upon the 800 presentments made at the swanimote held in the Forest of Dean in the previous month : 420 of these for unlawfully cutting and selling woods , 260 for illegal inclosures and other encroachments , 80 for taking the king 's game and 10 for unauthorized operation of ironworks . |
| 23 | This includes one of the Runefangs held in the Imperial armoury . |
| 24 | However , I feel that the ‘ caring professions ’ have a lot to answer for in terms of the attitude held by the general public . |
| 25 | Carey stood up , the fish held in the crook of his arm , as you would hold an infant . |
| 26 | The most elaborate shells in the collections held in the British Museum ( Natural History ) have come from a sub-littoral population of Rhoscolyn ( Anglesey ) . |
| 27 | The Chadwick Collection is an important addition to the collections held by the Museum 's Library and Records Centre and concerning the aviation industry in the North West . |
| 28 | There are cushions like the World Food Programme and the stocks held by the major grain producers , but emergencies and poor harvests could run them down very quickly . |
| 29 | The degree of skill will vary according to the post held by the doctor , rather than the experience of the individual . |
| 30 | Typical of his account is the picture he gives of the festival held at the great Sufi shrine of the Qadam Sharif , which sheltered the supposed Footprint of the Holy Prophet . |