Example sentences of "[modal v] [adv] [be] held [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tessa legislation specifies that the account must not be held on behalf of another person . |
| 2 | Certainly , to the accountant , there is no reason why those doctors who are high spenders in their prescribing habits , should not be held to be financially accountable for their decisions . |
| 3 | The Council agreed that the company should not be held to the requirement to construct the line from the ‘ Robin Hood' ’ down Elmers End Road to the Beckenham boundary , unless Beckenham U.D.C. constructed a continuation to Elmers End Station . |
| 4 | Pickets handing out leaflets to passers by may thereby cause harassment , alarm or distress , but they should not be held to be guilty of an offence on that account alone . |
| 5 | An engagement party is traditionally held by the future bridegroom 's parents , but there is no reason why one should not be held by the bride 's family , or by both families in their own home or elsewhere , particularly if the two families live in different areas . |
| 6 | Young people should have the right of independent counselling , and should not be held in police cells . |
| 7 | Lord Rawdon told the Committee of the whole House of Lords , which read his bill clause by clause in May , that he thought a debtor should be able to swear to the real cause of his debt and , if there was no question of fraud or any intention to abscond , he should not be held in custody for more than eight days and be discharged on filing common bail . |
| 8 | These include procedures designed to ensure that : ( 1 ) no alleged contemnor shall be in any doubt as to the charges which are made against him ; ( 2 ) he shall be given a proper opportunity of showing cause why he should not be held in contempt of court ; ( 3 ) if an order of committal is made , the accused ( a ) knows precisely in what respects he has been found to have offended and ( b ) is given a written record of those findings and of the sentence passed upon him . |
| 9 | The fact that Baudrillard 's name has been linked with the Situationists should not be held against them . |
| 10 | The title is fine , and the author 's name should not be held against him . |
| 11 | Although the pupil or parent may now see what is in the file , it should otherwise be held in confidence . |
| 12 | The account may not be held on behalf of a person other than the account-holder . |
| 13 | However , this is not the end of the matter for the scope of this withdrawal of immunity is limited by the remainder of section 17 , which provides three routes through which secondary action may finally be held to be not unlawful . |
| 14 | Of all of the appointments which might easily be held by a resident freeholder , none was more attractive to many gentlemen than the post of collector of supply . |
| 15 | ‘ The first question to be decided by the court is whether on the undisputed or incontrovertible facts there appears to be a question deserving fuller investigation and whether it might reasonably be held on the substantive hearing that it would be in the interests of the child for a ‘ residence order ’ to be made . |
| 16 | Adopting that approach to the facts and circumstances of the present application I am satisfied that it raises a question deserving a fuller investigation , and , if that investigation were to favour [ the foster mother ] , that it might reasonably be held on the substantive hearing that it would be in the interests of the children ( or one or more of them ) for a ‘ residence order ’ to be made . |
| 17 | The reasons for the decision might also be held to be part of the record . |
| 18 | It also indicated that a referendum might well be held on the package prior to its submission to the provinces . |
| 19 | For example lindane , or gamma benzene hexachloride , is an insecticide found in a shampoo called Quellada Application PC — more often prescribed for scabies — and in Lorexane , which , although now withdrawn from the market , may still be held by some chemists . |
| 20 | Will he take steps to have that issue ventilated in a multi-question referendum of the people , which could perhaps be held in harmony with the general election ? |
| 21 | The Eddie Aikau denoted a big-wave contest of a kind that could only be held in Hawaii . |
| 22 | If a referendum in a union republic failed to endorse secession , a new referendum on secession could not be held for 10 years . |
| 23 | The MPLA-PT insisted that it could not formally recognize UNITA until the Constitution had been revised , and that elections could not be held for several years until a census and electoral rolls had been drawn up . |
| 24 | She was told by the Chief Constable of the district ( who was accompanied by the Inspector who became the respondent in the appeal ) that a meeting could not be held on the spot , but could be held some 175 yards distant , around the corner . |
| 25 | But he never explains how such a belief about bones could possibly be held by a dog since it has such obvious linguistic implications particularly as grounds for possession of the human concept . |
| 26 | An ingenious Yamaha employee suggested a hoist for the drum , so that the jug could simply be held under it by the sprayman , or woman ( women undertake almost any job in the factory ) , making life easier , ensuring less waste and almost certainly fewer days off work due to back injuries ! |
| 27 | Class tests may also be held from time to time . |
| 28 | These records need not be held in this ‘ logical ’ sequence ( see Figure 5.9(c) ) , as long as the files are held on direct access storage devices . |
| 29 | They may even be held by the same people . |
| 30 | In M & S Drapers v Reynolds [ 1957 ] 1 WLR 9 Morris LJ said " I do not consider that a restriction … would necessarily be held to be unreasonable merely because it could be shown possibly to extend to one or two cases beyond the range of contemplated protection " . |