Example sentences of "be held as [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 As an alternative to the last submission it was argued that the money was paid to and received by the revenue under an implied agreement that it would be held as a deposit against tax that might be held to have been due at the dates of payment and that it would be repaid if and when it turned out that no tax was due .
2 A contingency reserve of £14,000 would be held as a topping-up fund , to be deployed as necessary as the project developed .
3 As late as the 1760s an influential theorist could still argue that an ambassador who , on his own initiative , encouraged sedition within the state to which he was accredited , could be punished by it even with death , while if he had acted on the orders of his master he could be held as a hostage until the latter had given satisfaction .
4 In addition to money held for this ‘ transactions ’ purpose some additional money will be held for ‘ precautionary ’ reasons and perhaps also some will be held as a form of saving or as an ‘ asset ’ .
5 This will require the development of CAL material in study skills and the purchase of CAL programs in subject areas which will be held as a library resource .
6 In the next century it came to be held as a statute and was regarded as a locus classicus defining at least one boundary between clerical and lay jurisdictions .
7 Enterprise zone property trusts are established to be held as an investment for a very long period ( usually 25 years ) and as Capital Ventures warns : ‘ You may have difficulty in selling your investment before realisation of the underlying property … ’
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