Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] be hold in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shells were among the first substances to be held in high regard despite being of very limited use for practical purposes . |
| 2 | In the past they 've called publicly for notorious joy riders to be held in secure units . |
| 3 | From the early 1780s onwards an increasingly elaborate network of agents and informers kept foreigners and even many important figures in the government under surveillance , and from 1782 there was provision for dangerous political prisoners to be held in complete isolation in special underground cells . |
| 4 | For definiteness , and to maximize the number of significant digits in the fraction , we require all non-zero floating-point numbers to be held in normalized form . |
| 5 | Parents want the debate on the future of education of our children to be held in public with all interested parties making a contribution , not ashamedly and secretly in smoke-filled hotel rooms . |