Example sentences of "[noun pl] held [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The digital images held in the memory banks are converted to television signals which are displayed on the monitor . |
| 2 | Thus a feasible injection schedule for animals held in a room with a light period from 0800 h to 2000 h would be PMSG between 1500 and 1600 h and hCG 46 h later between 1300 and 1400 h . |
| 3 | Following revelations about British Gas 's contribution to the destruction of Ecuadorean rainforest [ see ED 48 ] , new information has come to light concerning far larger concessions held by the company in Gabon . |
| 4 | Listing the offices held by the pair was not done for information purposes — every five-year-old knew who they were — but to assert their authority . |
| 5 | However , in December the government achieved a breakthrough in its protracted campaign to trace and retrieve the huge sums believed to have been looted from the country by the Marcos family , when the Swiss Supreme Court ruled that funds held by the family in Swiss bank accounts should be returned to the government of the Philippines , but stipulated that this could be done only after a Philippines ' court had ruled against Marcos [ see p. 37961 ] . |
| 6 | If your library has a computerised catalogue , you may be able to get a list of all the books held on a particular subject matter . |
| 7 | There was a special problem in the fact that castles held by the Lusignan family and particularly by the Counts of Angoulême could at times hinder land communications between the Duke 's three administrative capitals , the old Roman and episcopal cities of Poitiers , Saintes and Bordeaux . |
| 8 | You see the only way that you can really discipline them is when you have a school where the rules have been very , very strict from the moment that they went into that school and they have had their noses held to the grindstone with work up to their brows and they just do n't think of being tiresome and anybody who is tiresome is pulled out and put in a special room on their own , called a sin bin an which is rather boring and made to work even harder ! |
| 9 | The German authorities denied that they promised any of payments or leniency towards the two Hamadei brothers held in a German prison [ see pp. 38455 ; 38695 ] . |
| 10 | Such life or death issues are fundamental to our society , and the cases discussed in Chapter Six challenged long-established prerogatives held by the medical profession and by parents and families . |
| 11 | CACI 's BRANCHPLAN can assist in answering these questions by analysing addresses held by the branch . |
| 12 | Reports of a hunger strike during Baker 's visit by dissidents held in a Liaoning prison in protest over beatings and prison conditions was denied by the Chinese Foreign Ministry . |
| 13 | For Windows 3.0 users there is a separate set of drivers held on the drivers disk ( they actually work under 3.1 as well , but not as fast as the proper 3.1 drivers ) . |
| 14 | All of the foregoing are in accordance with the lists held by the parties . |
| 15 | Their eyes held for a long time and then he rested back on his elbows and looked at the treetops , his face suddenly serious . |
| 16 | Their eyes held for a moment and a slow smile began to grow on the darkly handsome face . |
| 17 | She sat quietly , her freckled girl 's hand just encompassing the big brown mug , as though it had alighted there , her eyes held by the blessed , blissful forsythia that filled the whole kitchen with energy , with pleasure . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's all right , Shirley , ’ Jenna managed quietly , her eyes held by the dark gaze . |
| 19 | It was followed by a series of eight weekly sessions held in the early part of Monday evenings examining a range of issues in the area of personal effectiveness at work . |
| 20 | This imbalance , in the number of sessions held by the Council compared to the Assembly , must have made it easier for the Council to usurp executive powers . |
| 21 | Marines were honour-bound to board a hulk , to cleanse any threat it posed , and to recover any valuable or enigmatic pieces of ancient technology from millennia earlier which might be encysted in the wreck like pearls held in a lethal clam . |
| 22 | Table 3.4 shows how many they employed over the course of the project , together with the number of clients held at the same time . |
| 23 | If the exchange rate is kept fixed , the deficit will be financed by a loss of the foreign exchange reserves held by the Bank of England or by overseas borrowing . |
| 24 | The total outflow of some $60 billion was financed by increases in the reserves held by the central banks of the industrial countries . |
| 25 | This includes one of the Runefangs held in the Imperial armoury . |
| 26 | Around 250–300 honours and research students from all over Scotland attended the 14th annual Irvine review lectures held in the Chemistry Department at St Andrews University in November . |
| 27 | These transactions have reduced the number of blocks held by the Group in the UK from 166 to 122 , whilst increasing the average working interest in the acreage retained from 26 per cent to 29 per cent . |
| 28 | The liabilities of the issue department are thus simply notes in circulation in the economy , plus the operational balances held at the Bank . |
| 29 | Operational deposits make up approximately a fifth of bankers ' balances held at the bank , the remainder being made up of non-interest bearing cash deposits that banks are required to keep at the Bank of England to provide it with an income . |
| 30 | On April 20 an SPLA spokesperson in Nairobi said that the three towns were in areas held by the Nasir group and that in areas held by Garang 's forces almost 150,000 villagers and displaced persons were without food aid . |