Example sentences of "of [noun] held [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the supermarket booksellers with their dizzying displays , their pyramids of bestsellers , one is intimidated , constantly lost in the wealth of glittering titles , bemused by a request answered by a computer which indicates the number of copies held of the title one has asked for , the price , position on the shelf , shelf position in the shop . |
| 2 | Lord Attlee 's memoirs , for example , as well as Sir John Wheeler Bennett 's biography of George VI described a number of views held by the King without the authors being accused of constitutional impropriety . |
| 3 | But the real decisions will come in June , at one of a series of meetings held under the auspices of the World Administrative Radio Conference . |
| 4 | It was one of a series of meetings held in the works canteen . |
| 5 | If the company 's business involves dealing in goods the records must also contain a statement of stock held at the end of the financial year and statements of stocktakings from which that was prepared , and , except in the case of goods sold in the ordinary course of retail trade , statements of all goods sold or purchased , in sufficient detail to enable the other party to be identified . |
| 6 | The precise objectives outlined emphasise the intention to raise the awareness of and inspire the communication of information to " the WHOLE STAFF " ( Proposal document ) , and " to be constantly aware of the BALANCE OF STOCK held within the Library Resource Centre to ensure a suitable coverage of all subject areas " . |
| 7 | This imbalance , in the number of sessions held by the Council compared to the Assembly , must have made it easier for the Council to usurp executive powers . |
| 8 | For Windows 3.0 users there is a separate set of drivers held on the drivers disk ( they actually work under 3.1 as well , but not as fast as the proper 3.1 drivers ) . |
| 9 | As recorded in the minutes of the meeting of the Heads of Department held on the 11th March 1981 , reaction to this document was anxious and ambivalent , with several threads of concern emerging . |
| 10 | Table 3.4 shows how many they employed over the course of the project , together with the number of clients held at the same time . |
| 11 | The difference is clearly seen by comparing the ideologies of mobility held by the members of the two sorts of system . |
| 12 | This may be shown by comparing two passages concerning one particular concept of honour held by the navy in the period concerned . |
| 13 | Christopher was sawing through a piece of wood held in the vice . |
| 14 | These transactions have reduced the number of blocks held by the Group in the UK from 166 to 122 , whilst increasing the average working interest in the acreage retained from 26 per cent to 29 per cent . |
| 15 | Such a fall in the value of wealth held outside the USA could itself trigger economic contraction on a wide scale . |
| 16 | The Libyan leader , Col. Moamer al Kadhafi , sent his congratulations to Déby on Dec. 5 , and welcomed a decision to repatriate 2,000 Libyan prisoners of war held since the end of the 1986-87 war . |
| 17 | By the beginning of 1991 the number of seats held by the CIP had increased from 12 to 14 — one member of the DP having defected to the CIP , and the sole independent member having joined the CIP — thereby giving the party , in alliance with the DTP , the two-thirds majority required to enact constitutional changes . |
| 18 | This issue had been a major stumbling block , as any equalization of representation almost inevitably meant a relative reduction in the current number of seats held by the country 's most heavily populated provinces , Ontario and Quebec . |
| 19 | This issue had been a major stumbling block , as any equalization of representation almost inevitably meant a relative reduction in the current number of seats held by the country 's most heavily populated provinces , Ontario and Quebec . |
| 20 | The UN Charter would have to be amended to provide for a special security council which would not , presumably , include the rights of veto held by the five permanent members of the existing security council . |
| 21 | To a school librarian , the term might conjour up the image of compiling a computerized catalouge with details of resources held in the school library . |
| 22 | For determining the value and predicting the service potential of resources held by the governmental unit . |
| 23 | The artist for this year was Helen Chadwick whose exhibition Of Mutability held at the ICA in 1986 led to her nomination for the Turner Prize in 1987/ The critic selector was Marjorie Allthorpe-Guyton , formerly editor of Artscribe International . |
| 24 | To appreciate fully the origin of these offences we must look more closely at the kind of theories held by the pupils . |
| 25 | He held his glasses in one hand and was rhythmically tapping a sheet of paper held in the other . |
| 26 | This detailed investigation revealed that , although in broad terms the earlier proposals were supported , the total number of files held by the departments ( ie approximately 60,000 ) , and the variety of ways in which outposted files were managed and used , would make the cost of providing a sophisticated computer system throughout excessively high , compared to the benefits that could accrue . |
| 27 | The Register is a record of the range of files held by the data user , but does not tell an individual if he/she is included . |
| 28 | Thus , in 1964 only 22 per cent of Americans held to the view that government could be trusted only , ‘ some of the time ’ whereas this had increased to 37 per cent by 1968 , 45 per cent by 1972 , 61 per cent by 1974 and 73 per cent by 1980 . |
| 29 | As in the Congress of People 's Deputies elections in March 1989 [ see p. 36513 ] , practices reminiscent of elections held before the introduction of the democratic reforms under Gorbachev continued to prevail , including artificially high turnouts , a lack of choice between candidates for many seats , and overwhelming communist majorities . |
| 30 | While the number of tenements held of the manor came to fifty-two , the number of separate farms totalled seventy-three , resulting of course in an increase in the number of smaller units , both absolutely and relatively ; in particular the number below 10 acres amounted to forty-five ( 62 per cent ) compared with twenty-eight ( 54 per cent ) head tenancies . |