Example sentences of "[noun] held back " in BNC.
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| 1 | The animal-health division saw profits dip 2 per cent to £62 million after the US Food and Drugs Administration held back some products . |
| 2 | The Communists held back from such attempts to draw the Liberal Party into a People 's Front . |
| 3 | Alternatively Aischines ' charge of ‘ bribery ’ could refer to vaguer but still politically valuable arrangements whereby the habitués of the ancient equivalent of the left-wing coffee-shop in a deme agreed to put forward no candidates in one year provided the right-wing coffee-shop held back the following year . |
| 4 | Riven held back as Bicker , Corrary and Isay piled into them . |
| 5 | Katherine held back the tears with difficulty . |
| 6 | The Princesse was already shaking hands with him and Katherine held back a little . |
| 7 | Erm it , it did sort of get going but I felt that Maggie held back a little bit on that whereas you , you might have got er you know a bit , a bit more information with open questions . |
| 8 | Whilst one of Karajan 's recording companies held back , the Deutsche Grammophon-Polygram group took the plunge . |
| 9 | Martin held back , and she waited until James was out of sight before she spoke . |
| 10 | Sadly one has to conclude , if the illustrations of lessons reported in the published text are anything to go by ( and one can hardly conceive that the team held back good lessons ) then we still have a long way to go before we can claim with confidence that drama on the curriculum guarantees good education . |
| 11 | It was as if I were surrounded by snarling dogs held back by chains . |
| 12 | Theda held back , urgency in her voice . |
| 13 | The other vendors held back , concerned about the costs of PostScript licenses , the speed of the imaging process and numerous other issues of which font availability was certainly one . |
| 14 | The proportion of rooms held back for this purpose is renegotiated annually : Winter has agreed to continue the 1985 arrangements over the following summer , i.e. 30 per cent over June-August and 15 per cent in May and September . |
| 15 | Joe held back his anger . |
| 16 | The clan held back politely as he swaggered down after the others into the sheltered hollow . |
| 17 | Many companies hoped that the end to uncertainty would result in the release of orders held back because of the election . |
| 18 | Again Celia held back . |
| 19 | A drink was pressed into his hand , a chair held back and he found himself seated opposite Cornelius by the window , for all the world like some sixth-former seeking advice on whether to go for Oxbridge or the Guards . |
| 20 | Unisys Corp and Honeywell Inc say they have settled the pending lawsuits over the sale of the Sperry Aerospace Group to Honeywell in December 1986 — Honeywell reckoned that it paid too much because Unisys held back material information ; Unisys will make a pre-tax payment to Honeywell of $43.2m over three years toward a $70m total settlement , with the remaining funding coming from insurance and an investment banking firm ; as a result of the settlement , Unisys will report a net extraordinary charge of $26.4m against its first quarter figures for the period to March 31 ; it says the charge will be offset by a larger than expected net gain from implementing the FASB 106 and FASB 109 accounting changes that it already announced it would make . |
| 21 | A weak performance in Europe held back profits growth at Unilever , the Anglo-Dutch food and consumer products group , figures out yesterday showed . |
| 22 | So the government held back from imposing a duty on auditors to seek out fraud , malpractice and wrong doing . |
| 23 | During a subsequent march of some 200,000 pupils backed by the teachers ' union FEN in Paris on Nov. 12 , police held back while cars were burned and shops looted in the seventh arrondissement , but finally intervened with tear gas and water cannon to prevent marchers approaching the presidential palace ; 234 police and a number of journalists were injured and 83 people were arrested . |
| 24 | Unlike most fiendishly keen gardeners who move to a new place , uproot the lot and instigate their ideas and favourite plants , Patricia held back . |
| 25 | Other Rational Dissenters held back from Priestley 's particular arguments but shared with the Priestleyans an urgent commitment to influencing moral life through advocacy of ‘ great and universally allowed principles of religion and morality … in all their boundless and beneficent application to the concerns of public and private life , of national and individual conduct , of politics , literature , art , philosophy and the condition of society ’ ( W. J. Fox ) . |
| 26 | On Tuesday night , the company held back from issuing dismissal notices until after yesterday 's meeting , but Mr McLevy said there had been an overwhelming vote , with only four against , to reject the Timex proposals . |
| 27 | The budget deficit was projected at nearly 79,000 million forint ( US$1,308 million at the Dec. 31 exchange rate of $1.00=60.404 forint ) , even with expenditure held back to 931,690 million forint . |
| 28 | The 1991 budget , passed on Dec. 30 , 1990 , projected a deficit of nearly 79,000 million forint , with expenditure held back to 931,690 million forint [ see p. 37922 ] . |
| 29 | The Laming/Foster circular of last year held back from legislating on the purchaser/provider split , leaving it up to authorities to restructure services as they considered feasible . |
| 30 | Yusuf held back , coolly remarking that both sides were their enemies and that the more they slaughtered each other the better . |