Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [modal v] [be] hold [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't joke about serious issues or say things you do n't mean or it could be held against you later . |
| 2 | What worried her most of all was that she might be held in equal suspicion . |
| 3 | Until more is known concerning his death , I judge that you must be held in confinement within my custody . |
| 4 | Mswati did not specify who would decide on the incorporation of the Vusela-2 recommendations into a new constitution , neither did he give a new date for elections , which had been due in November , although he said on Oct. 26 that they would be held in the first half of 1993 . |
| 5 | That they should be held outside the US was for reasons which follow . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She stressed , too , that it should be held in public as families across Britain , from Cornwall to Orkney , were at risk from over-zealous authorities . |
| 8 | Each instruction is encoded in such a way that it can be held in a store location , so that the store contains both the data being operated on and the program of instructions specifying the operations to be performed . |
| 9 | The advantage of a pillbox line was that it could be held with fewer men who could , therefore , be rotated more frequently : another morale-boosting factor . |
| 10 | Dunbar , all agreed , would be a good place to get out of , since it was impossible , despite these improved defences , that it could be held against its own lord and the whole might of England 's king . |
| 11 | It was unthinkable that John could be dead , but it had been unthinkable that he would be held for this long and it had happened . |
| 12 | Suppose by mistake or accident he fails to repay on the day named , is it fair that he should be held to the terms of the deed ? |
| 13 | The council may make the appointment full or part time and it may be held by an officer of a regional council but the appointee must be an advocate or a solicitor . |
| 14 | This means that any single frame can be found quickly and accurately and it can be held on the screen for as long as you like without damaging the disc . |
| 15 | This file will be very small and , if indexed , it will usually match the access speed of a larger direct file because it can be held on a single cylinder of disk , with its index in main storage . |
| 16 | Now engineers , for example , can also share information because it can be held on the object-oriented database . |
| 17 | A suitable place for ward tutorials is often hard to find as they must be held near the ward . |
| 18 | The Sari , however , is not primarily an initiation ceremony ; for it will be held by a great ruwang and his wife ( the ruwahu ) regardless of whether there are boys of appropriate age for initiation . |