Example sentences of "[adv] held " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was personally held responsible for the failures of his economic stewardship . |
| 2 | Today 's chefs have very properly outlawed that preliminary blanching which spelled ruin to so many vegetables — of course there are still those such as celeriac and turnips which may need it — and one of their most fiercely held tenets concerns the brief cooking of fish , in particular of the fragile scallop . |
| 3 | Cynthia Cockburn calls this " studied hypocrisy " , arguing that as things stood no woman could expect to earn the same wage as a man , because of the Factory Acts among other things , and links it with the undoubtedly fiercely held view among many compositors that women really had no right to " leave the home " anyway . |
| 4 | That particular day 's sailings between England and Ireland were delayed owing to bad weather so the mail was accountably held up and delays caused . |
| 5 | Indeed , contrary to MAFF 's stubbornly held views that the LFA Directive can not be used to support conservation except as an ancillary to agricultural development , the then Minister of Agriculture , Mr Peter Walker , answered a question in the House on 10 December 1981 on how successful the LFA Directive had been in encouraging production in the UK . |
| 6 | This year at Cebit 1989 , the huge electronics fair held in Hanover , the head of the government 's electronics commision , P.S. Deodhar , ‘ launched India into the European Information market . ’ |
| 7 | The recent contemporary art fair held at the Pacifico Yokohama Exhibition Hall ( see The Art Newspaper No. 16 , March 1992 , pp. 17 and 19 ) attracted 58,533 visitors and was adjudged successful by its organisers although no sales figures were released . |
| 8 | Then , on the third day , he would be a guest at a trade fair held in New Jersey . |
| 9 | The Eskimos of Alaska were collecting amber and trading it at the late summer fair held at Kotzebue on the north-west coast down to recent times . |
| 10 | The highlight of the Junior School charities programme is the Summer Charities Fair held on the lawns in June . |
| 11 | This theory of a ‘ verbal inspiration ’ especially held good for the Greek translation of the Old Testament , commonly called that of the Seventy ( Septuagint ) , made at Alexandria in the third century bc . |
| 12 | This section examines cases which use indirect words , words directed to someone other than the trustee , which are none the less held to give rise to an obligation under trust in the trustee . |
| 13 | Consequently the interpersonal or social functions of the language can be more or less held constant . |
| 14 | A potential consignment was purportedly held back in the hope of a higher price . |
| 15 | As it was , de Lattre constantly held out the prospect of Chinese intervention , apparently believing it himself and certainly capitalizing on it in the US . |
| 16 | Hodgskin failed to break into the charmed circle of the Edinburgh reviewers , and was constantly held back by his painful self-abnegation and the growing radicalism of his opinions . |
| 17 | When this happens , meditation on the Passion of Christ is an obvious source of strength together with the constantly held realisation that it provides an opportunity to play the game of faith by which its reality is proved . |
| 18 | In a rip-and-tear piece , the newsletter dismisses as canards all the fondly held notions about RISC and makes an item-by-item case that RISC as faster , cheaper and easier to design is all illusion . |
| 19 | Theodora recalled its tensely held eye and mouth muscles : the face of someone perpetually on the verge of panic . |
| 20 | They were literally held together in sickness and health . |
| 21 | What seemed to be a simple matter when merely held as a mental question , verbally unframed and with no thought given to response , appears as a simply impossible problem when it has actually to be put down on paper . |
| 22 | Until the 1985 harvest-time declaration of the échelle des crus , Chouilly , le Mesnil-sur-Oger , Oger , Oiry and Verzy merely held premier cru status . |
| 23 | ( He continued to insist , nonetheless , that that one-sidedness had been necessary , and that the negative points he had made must not be withdrawn , nor even weakened , but merely held together with the positive . |
| 24 | Chancery Division so held in Prudential Assurance Company Ltd v IRC [ 1992 ] STI 925 . |
| 25 | So held Chancery Division of the High Court in Beecham Group plc v IRC [ 1992 ] STI 980 . |
| 26 | The House of Lords so held in Woolwich Equitable Building Society v IRC [ 1992 ] STI 746 , dismissing the Crown 's appeal against the Court of Appeal 's ruling . |
| 27 | The Court of Appeal so held in IRC v Wilkinson [ 1992 ] STI 481 . |
| 28 | The High Court so held in Tenbry Investments Limited v Peugeot Talbot Motor Co Ltd [ 1992 ] STI 873 . |
| 29 | So held Chancery Division in C Connelly & Co v Wilbey [ 1992 ] STI 889 . |
| 30 | Chancery Division so held in Kempton v Special Commissioners and IRC [ 1992 ] STI 891 , dismissing the taxpayer 's appeal and upholding the penalty awarded by the Special Commissioner . |