Example sentences of "[noun sg] hold by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Called Touchbank , the system looks and operates like an automatic telling machine with a menu listing household and travel insurance policies on a screen upon the insertion of a Connect , Barclaybank or BarclayPlus card held by 6m customers . |
| 2 | Some parts of Bull 's activities are viewed as more important strategically for France than others , an industry ministry official told Reuter , declining to give details , but noted that even in a nationally strategic sector like electronic components , France contents itself with owning 45% of SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV , with Italy as an equal partner and a small private holding held by Thorn EMI Plc . |
| 3 | Some parts of Bull 's activities are viewed as more important strategically for France than others , an industry ministry official told Reuter , declining to give details , but noted that even in a nationally strategic sector like electronic components , France contents itself with owning 45% of SGS-Thomson Microelectronics NV , with Italy as an equal partner and a small private holding held by Thorn EMI Plc . |
| 4 | Ultimately , loans were granted to customers by means of issuing notes or crediting their accounts with deposits ( loans ) in excess of the gold stock held by the goldsmith . |
| 5 | Since the mid-1970s the proportion of stock held by non financial companies has risen partly because of the constraints placed on stockholding by banks and financial institutions . |
| 6 | The spare was originally part of the national stock held by the three electricity boards before privatisation and came to Scottish Nuclear during dispersal of that stock in 1990 . |
| 7 | Long ago the Vexin had been divided into two along the line of the River Epte : on the east bank the French Vexin held by the King of France , on the west the Norman Vexin held by the Duke of Normandy . |
| 8 | In 1928 William Robson published Justice and Administrative Law , a landmark text which he later described as an attempt ‘ to dispel the illusion held by all the leading lawyers , politicians , civil servants and academics who had been brought up on Dicey 's Law of the Constitution that in Britain there was no administrative law ’ In this book Robson argued that ‘ no modern student of law or political science has today the slightest doubt that there exists in England a vast body of administrative law ’ and that ‘ the problem is not to discover it but rather to master its widespread ramifications and reduce it to some kind of order and coherence ’ . |
| 9 | He also describes attending a ceremony held by Croatian emigres at Bleiburg in 1985 , where he " spoke with many survivors of the event . |
| 10 | An entry can be made by any part of the accused 's body or by an instrument held by the accused to intimidate someone in the building or to remove goods from the building . |
| 11 | Nick Harvey , a professional lobbyist , needs only a four per cent swing to take a seat held by Jeremy Thorpe for many years , where Liberal traditions are still strong . |
| 12 | They have been formed from the former Milton Keynes seat held by Conservative , Bill Benyon for 22 years . |
| 13 | The office of Mufti held by Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan was , as far as can be judged from the sources , merely an adjunct to their other offices . |
| 14 | In the Chester Diocese , opinion is split on women priests , though a vote held by clergymen came out 40 to 33 in favour of the ordination of women . |
| 15 | The deeply unpopular Somerset was overthrown in October , and power passed to those who had opposed the war ; his successor , John Dudley , earl of Warwick , was only recognizing the inevitable when he gave up Boulogne at the same time as peace was made with Scotland in March 1550 , when the last stronghold held by the English , Lauder , capitulated . |
| 16 | The actual founding of the town is obscure , but it was well established as part of the Royal hunting lodge before 1066 and so has no separate entry in the Domesday Book , since Snaith was a royal manor held by the King ‘ for the support of his table ’ , and therefore already documented . |
| 17 | Top side held by 10 men |
| 18 | Taken together with the very large percentage of investment in heavy industry held by foreign interests , this presented a formidable obstacle to the emergence of a politically powerful business lobby . |
| 19 | This envisaged collecting and processing relevant information contained on the payroll tape held by the Data Processing Branch . |
| 20 | This house was the venue for a famous salon held by Mrs Berta Fanta in the early 1900s . |
| 21 | The enormous main door of the house stood open , its metal-lined bulk held by the largest safety-chain he had ever seen . |
| 22 | The infra-red remote control is unique to this machine , and the only other way to get into it is via a master key held by the system supervisor . |
| 23 | But all I could do was wrestle with the lunging hind foot , dressing the infected cleft with a crude mixture of copper sulphate and Stockholm tar and finishing with a pad of cotton wool held by a tight bandage . |
| 24 | Different sets of figures are produced on the value of wealth held by different groups of the population . |
| 25 | The intention of the current work is to explore the perceptions of the voluntary sector held by local authority staff and to consider this in the light of their policies and practices for contacting and working with ( or for ) the voluntary groups in their areas . |
| 26 | However , I feel that the ‘ caring professions ’ have a lot to answer for in terms of the attitude held by the general public . |
| 27 | They reasoned that an attitude held by an individual is a unique value on a continuum of possibilities or scale , rather than something which is simply present or absent . |
| 28 | Differences in reward between occupations result from the scarce skill held by the occupational group . |
| 29 | One of the themes of the 1990s that we can identify for ourselves — although what history will make of it we must wait and see — is the concept of government by charter , with the underlying idea that poor public service can be remedied by better management held by force and compensation to higher performance standards . |
| 30 | Her eyes drank in the cameo of the small child held by the tall man . |