Example sentences of "[be] hold [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 2 | ‘ When he did so , he would have been holding to an instinctive belief that the signal behind him would inevitably have gone to red . |
| 3 | She heard him release the breath he 'd been holding in a sigh . |
| 4 | But I am holding in a dead zone . |
| 5 | Another ceasefire brokered by the European Communities ( EC ) appeared to be holding for a time , as the Hague peace conference continued its efforts to find long-term solutions to the conflict , but the truce collapsed in early October . |
| 6 | This tensing should be held for a count of five , then released , and repeated several times . |
| 7 | It was finally fixed in place and glazed just in time for a christening and the first flower festival to be held for a while . |
| 8 | Russia 's President Yeltsin has ordered elections to be held for a new upper house of Parliament . |
| 9 | It is a matter for the coroner to decide whether the inquest should be held with a jury : section 19(3) ( d ) of the Act of 1988 might suggest that a jury is appropriate in this case . |
| 10 | A building society savings account may be held with a second competitor and an insurance policy with a third . |
| 11 | Initially , in-depth personal interviews will be held with a sample of senior marketing executives from a wide range of industries . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) The projection can be held across a strip of behavior that is less long than a grammatical sentence … |
| 13 | Grinders should be held at a shallow angle of between 15 and 30° to the work when they are used to abrade the surface . |
| 14 | The mass will be held at a religious shrine on a road where , three years ago , hundreds of thousands of Filipinos gathered in the uprising which toppled the former president , Ferdinand Marcos , and installed Mrs Aquino in power . |
| 15 | Thus the output voltage will be held at a voltage equal to that at pin 3 . |
| 16 | MCC bosses had hoped to deflect the rebels from insisting on the meeting , which will cost £17,000 and may well have to be held at a huge venue like Westminster Hall , by offering to pass on their views on the Gower affair to the selectors and the TCCB in an unprecedented letter of protest . |
| 17 | Not a single Tory seat in the country would be held at a by-election on such a swing , according to John Curtice , of Strathclyde University ; not even Christchurch , which would go Liberal Democrat on a swing of 20% . |
| 18 | The 1992 series will be held at a new venue , Abbey Community Association , 34 Great Smith Street , London SW1 3BU . |
| 19 | For instance , demand management might require that government spending should be held at a high level to keep the economy at full pressure , while Labour 's plans also called for a high level of State spending . |
| 20 | The computer could be used to rescale the image pixel values so that the lowest value in the image ( 25 ) was interpolated onto the lowest value that the display system could accommodate ( 0 ) while the highest value in the raw image ( 90 ) was mapped to the maximum value that could be held at a pixel point in the image memory bank ( 255 ) . |
| 21 | The trial will be held at a later date . |
| 22 | Then again , the pen had to be held at an exact angle and Miss Smith had her own very efficient method of quickly teaching this . |
| 23 | The iron can also be held at an angle for a more intense jet of steam . |
| 24 | Whenever child abuse is suspected , a conference will be held at an early stage in the investigation and decision-making processes . |
| 25 | The initial examination of the requirement was based on the categories derived in the earlier analysis , which produced some tentative conclusions about the type of records that could be held on a computer , and the potential advantages that could be gained . |
| 26 | Then a party may be held on a different day , so there is a double celebration . |
| 27 | Courses operating in this way tend to be held on a system of day release or modules which include actual shifts in wards or departments . |
| 28 | The services will be integrated through a single customer database that will provide a comprehensive view of psychographic , syncographic , demographic and order history data , all to be held on a KSR1 running Oracle7 at Neodata 's Boulder , Colorado database marketing arm . |
| 29 | The services will be integrated through a single customer database that will provide a comprehensive view of psychographic , syncographic , demographic and order history data , all to be held on a KSR1 running Oracle7 at Neodata 's Boulder , Colorado database marketing arm . |
| 30 | It 's appropriate to end this review of cricketing Olympians with Australia , for the Australians staged the only Olympics to be held on a first-class cricket ground . |