Example sentences of "[be] hold [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An innocuous bachelor party can be held either at a respectable restaurant where food is served along with drink , or with food and family present at home . |
| 2 | In law , property may be held either by a natural person , or by a number of such persons , or by an incorporated body such as a company . |
| 3 | With no airbrake the glider will float some distance even at low speed , and it must still be held off for a proper touchdown . |
| 4 | The trailer brakes could be held off by a separate braking system when coupled to the tractor . |
| 5 | A discipline that is structurally diverse , and consists of a loosely related collection of sub-fields might nevertheless be held together by a common ethos or set of norms , attitudes and habits ; even by a common style . |
| 6 | In a complex web of mystifying deals , Hibs were held together by a financial structure which in the space of a few years involved a local bookmaker , an English based company with extensive leisure interests in the west country and a company registered in Panama called Charcoal Holdings . |
| 7 | In striking contrast , modern industrial societies were characterized by heterogeneity , and were held together by a superior bonding principle which , following the centuries ' old analogy between the body-politic and the human organism , Durkheim chose to call ‘ organic solidarity ’ . |
| 8 | In the north-east of England , a joint proposal by International Technology Europe and Northumbrian Water for two plants designed to burn sewage sludge and organic chemicals is currently being held up by a lengthy public enquiry , with local people in strong opposition . |
| 9 | I ended up going over the falls and being held under for a long time , and thinking there was no way I was going to come up before the next wave came across . |
| 10 | It is held together with a cryptic seal showing a human eye , a large X with peck marks round it and the words ‘ a return ’ written underneath . |
| 11 | Any community is held together by a complex web of achievement , responsibility and loyalty . |
| 12 | It is possible for a series of nick points to migrate up a stream and for the whole series to coalesce when they are held up by a resistant bed . |
| 13 | His theme is memory , a faculty with which he has been prodigiously blessed , though his origins as ‘ the child of Russian Jews from New Jersey ’ are held rather as a noble refusal to forget . |
| 14 | As a result , the particles are held together in a definite volume . |
| 15 | The youth market , which had been held together in a fragile unity , fragmented : on the one hand into Teenybop , on the other into the Underground . |
| 16 | She sensed that he was holding back with a massive effort , suppressing his own hunger with iron discipline . |
| 17 | The pale yellow flowers of the traveller 's joy entwined in the hedgerows brought no happiness to David Waterlane stuck behind a convoy of cars on the Midhurst Road which was held up by a huge lorry with a sign saying ‘ Horses ’ on the back . |
| 18 | In The Division of Labour primitive and industrial societies were contrasted , since each was held together in a different way and by a distinctive kind of social glue . |