Example sentences of "[pers pn] [modal v] [be] hold [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What worried her most of all was that she might be held in equal suspicion . |
| 2 | Unless we hear from you to the contrary within the next days , you will be held as admitting liability ’ . |
| 3 | In the larger clinics the two may run concurrently , in the smaller they may be held at different times during the week . |
| 4 | They must be held for five to ten years , ’ she says . |
| 5 | They can be held for 48 hours without charge under the Prevention of Terrorism Act and for a further five days at the discretion of the Home Secretary . |
| 6 | Keeping the index record size down is helpful because if the inverted indexes are small they can be held in main storage , and so cut search times down to a minimum . |
| 7 | It may be held at that important time of the first anniversary of the death , and is thus at the time when the people most bereaved may be thinking of re-engaging in life . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the meantime he 'll be held at Fairmile secure hospital at Wallingford . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | At the extreme , if it turned out that one opinion was in a minority in every group or constituency mandating its one representative , then the gathering of representatives would be unanimous in its support for the other opinion , while the minority opinion would be entirely unrepresented , even though , in principle , it could be held by 49 per cent of those taking part in the mandating process . |
| 12 | 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 . |