Example sentences of "which [pers pn] [be] held [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was in keeping with the respect in which she is held for her tireless work , especially on behalf of the world 's children . |
| 2 | This enchanting white-faced chestnut could be excitable before her races — it was the Royal Hunt Cup winner Come On The Blues , her travelling companion and calming influence , on whom she had her crush — but was admirably genuine , and her home-stretch surge to bring British racing its first great triumph in the Breeders ' Cup ensured that the affection in which she was held during her racing career would not fade . |
| 3 | What was significant was the awe in which she was held by her two senior colleagues , but not so by Mr Straw . |
| 4 | Piaget 's work also exhibits a parallel with Marx 's concept of praxis , in his insistence that all development is derived form practical interaction with the material world , in which we live , and with which we are held in tension . |
| 5 | Lawrence , a child of Water Orton , a suburban lacuna on the outskirts of Birmingham , spent the dreaded '80s as the leader of Felt , a semi-legendary indie pop outfit whose dearth of sales was inversely matched by the affection and wonky respect in which they were held by the choosier pop consumer . |
| 6 | In addition there is the letter of Sidonius , a generation earlier , recording the good works of Chilperic I and his wife , and the high regard in which they were held by bishop Patiens . |
| 7 | As a schoolmaster and later a headmaster his distinction was unexceeded by any in his profession , and the affection in which he is held by his former pupils is equal to that accorded to the legendary Mr Chips . |
| 8 | In practice the authority of an individual metropolitan was influenced by political factors , such as the favour in which he was held at court . |
| 9 | Harry led our team by example — although perhaps what some of his colleagues needed was a skipper who could also drive or cajole them to better things — but it was a mark of the respect in which he was held by Palace supporters that his well-deserved Benefit in 1953–54 was so well attended . |
| 10 | John Stanley 's extemporizations on the organ of Temple Church in London were attended by Handel , and yet the esteem in which he was held by his contemporaries has failed to gain him the reputation that he should enjoy today . |
| 11 | The couple was first drawn to the work of Magritte by the high regard in which he was held by another great Surrealist , Marcel Duchamp , and by Julian Levy and Alexander Iolas . |
| 12 | And at the Leicester Congress in 1931 , an illuminated address , signed by every member of the executive , bore witness to the respect in which he was held by his colleagues and the deaf community as a whole . |
| 13 | ‘ The respect in which he was held by everyone who knew him was reflected in the very large numbers that attended . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The circumstances which imposed on Midland Bank the duty of which it was held to be in breach are not apparent from the report . |
| 16 | The criticisms it was encountering had to do , for instance , with the composition of the Council ( whether or not there was adequate representation of polytechnic teachers or local authorities ) , or with the slow rate at which it was held to be devolving authority to the institutions . |
| 17 | In support of his argument , Mr. Coghlan relied on Cozens v. Brutus [ 1973 ] A.C. 854 , a case in which it was held in the House of Lords that the meaning of the word ‘ insulting ’ used in section 5 of the Public Order Act 1936 was not a matter of law but a matter of fact . |
| 18 | Success for Bonallack was not to be long delayed , for in 1961 he won the championship for the first of what was to be five times , the fifth being at Royal Co Down in 1970 , the last occasion on which it was held in Northern Ireland . |
| 19 | In other words , the information as experienced by the user rarely took the forms in which it was held in the memories of the system or network . |
| 20 | 353 in which it was held by the Divisional Court ( Glidewell L.J . |