Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [be] hold " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would go further and accept that the armoury of common law defences , such as those which prevent recovery of money paid under a binding compromise or to avoid a threat of litigation , may be either inapposite or inadequate for the purpose ; because it is possible to envisage , especially in modern taxation law which tends to be excessively complex , circumstances in which some very substantial sum of money may be held to have been exacted ultra vires from a very large number of taxpayers . |
| 2 | Although a court will generally strive to resolve uncertainties and ambiguities so as to give effect to a commercial contract wherever possible ( especially where the agreement is already partly executed ) , uncertainty or ambiguity may lead a court to conclude that the term is too uncertain to be enforceable , and in extreme cases the whole contract may be held to be void . |
| 3 | During the retention period the money should be held in a deposit account . |
| 4 | Because of the ranking procedure , shares of income run from 0 to 100 per cent as all income must be held by the total of the income-holding units . |
| 5 | It was , therefore , open to argument that theoretically the income must be held to have been received by them . |
| 6 | Owing to the continually rising cost of attending courses in Germany and Switzerland it is suggested that a summer course should be held in July or August 1982 , possibly at Green Park Training Centre , Aston Clinton , Buckinghamshire . |
| 7 | Long hair must be held back with an elastic band : clasps and metal grips are not allowed . |
| 8 | The Constitution stipulated that a general election must be held within 120 days , i.e. no later than April 8 , 1992 . |
| 9 | And he has made it clear that an all-German election should be held next year at the earliest , not as a quick substitute for the West German one in December . |
| 10 | In 1988 , when Mohammed Khan Junejo 's government was dismissed by Zia ul Haq , the court declined to uphold the legality of the decision , but agreed that an election should be held . |
| 11 | Attorney General Dick Thornburgh formally left the Cabinet on Aug. 9 , after a federal appeals court ruled on Aug. 6 that a special election should be held on Nov. 5 to fill the Senate seat of the late John Heinz — although Thornburgh had made known his intention to contest the vacant seat , his resignation from the government had been deferred pending a judicial examination of the constitutionality of Pennsylvania 's special election statute . |
| 12 | On March 3 the Federal Assembly presidium decided that the general election should be held on June 5-6 . |
| 13 | It is also , in my view , perfectly reasonable to support the proposition that a referendum should be held in Scotland in order to determine what constitutional status people actually want . |
| 14 | Havel urged that a referendum should be held by December 1991 , implying that he would resign if the issue remained unsolved . |
| 15 | President Havel proposed in March 1991 that a referendum should be held to settle the issue of Slovak secession . |
| 16 | Lord Taylor refused bail , but said the new trial should be held as soon as possible . |
| 17 | King Hassan of Morocco at the beginning of the month had said that the trial should be held " on neutral ground " , possibly under UN auspices . |
| 18 | Asking ‘ how far a Music Hall programme may be held to encourage lawlessness ’ , one observer considered that the types of song in currency ‘ could never have been written if the loafer , the liar , the drunkard , the thief , and the sensualist had been regarded as subjects unfit to be glorified in song ’ . |
| 19 | Top positions in the body politic may be held by monarchs , directly or indirectly elected presidents , rotating office-holders , parliamentary committees and collegiate bodies . |
| 20 | It states : ‘ In the run-up to the first meeting , a supporting demonstration should be held which should aim to mobilise more than the 25,000 gathered on December 12 . |
| 21 | The Control key must be held down while the R or W key on the keyboard is pressed . |
| 22 | A low vision aid must be held at the correct distance from the material to be viewed for maximum magnification to be effected , and it can be difficult to sustain this with a hand-held magnifier for any length of time . |
| 23 | Further preparation of collections of calcareous and phosphatic shelly Cambrian fossils may well produce dividends , and such disarticulated remains that are etched out of the rock should be held up against articulated scleritomes , either actual or hypothesized . |
| 24 | It was suggested that the auction should be held in the open-air to enable more people to take part but William Dunlop objected , insisting that the venue be strictly adhered to as arranged . |
| 25 | Can I also point out that erm the association of natural body builders stipulate that a contest must be held in a seated theatre such as this . |
| 26 | A child protection review must be held at least once every six months . |
| 27 | On May 21 Berlin deputies rejected a CDU motion , effectively of no confidence , to the effect that the coalition should be held responsible for the May Day rioting . |
| 28 | A review should be held to examine the extent to which mobility is actually required in the jobs held by staff . |
| 29 | However , in M v. Home Office the Court of Appeal held that although neither the Crown as such nor a government department could be held liable for contempt as a result of disobeying a court order ( including an order of prohibition or mandamus ) because they are not ‘ legal persons ’ , Ministers and civil servants could be personally guilty of contempt for failing to comply with an order directed to a Minister in his or her official capacity . |
| 30 | With , generally speaking , fewer scrums , it would be interesting to know in how many matches this season Probyn 's destructive scrummaging could be held to have affected the outcome . |